She wrote it for herself while she was in high school. She wrote it in anger about the tow rival groups at her school.
There is a short quote from S.E. Hinton about her book The Outsiders on her official website. She says, "The Outsiders is definitely my best selling book; but what I like most about it is how it has taught a lot of kids to enjoy reading." It can be found here:http://www.sehinton.com/books/Some more complicated thoughts and memories about the book are also related in a 2005 interview with the New York Times. Available here:http://tinyurl.com/yzzdm8oI found these sources by doing searching for "s e hinton" and "outsiders" and "s e hinton" and "interview" on the search engine Google available at:http://www.google.com/
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you can read more books by se hinton that are something like the outsiders they also involve gangs1) Rumble Fish2) That Was Then, This Is Now3) Taming The Star Runner (not really involving gangs for this book)
Hinton names her book The Outsiders because Ponyboy and his gang were the 'outsiders'. They weren't like the Socs driving Mustangs. They just weren't wanted/accepted. They were just different than everyone else.
S.E Hinton putted her name in initials because she didn't want other people to think girls couldn't write a book like The Outsiders with greasers and fights,
Oh, dude, Ponyboy Curtis isn't in the book "Tex." That's like asking if Batman is in a Harry Potter book. Ponyboy is from "The Outsiders," written by S.E. Hinton. So, yeah, they're totally different books, man.
Some books similar to "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton are "Rumble Fish" also by S.E. Hinton, “That Was Then, This Is Now” by S.E. Hinton, and "Tex" by S.E. Hinton. Each of these books explore themes of teenage angst, friendship, and self-discovery.
The Outsiders. She made the book into a movie and Francis Ford Coppola directed it. It starred Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze.
In the back of my book there are a bunch of Q&A questions with SE Hinton, and she said that she wrote it based on a true story, something that she saw happen in her neighborhood or something like that.
You need to read the book.
S.E. Hinton began to write the Outsiders at age 15. It was the year that she was 16 and a junior in high school that she did the majority of the work. That same year she had a D in creative writing. One day a friend of hers was walking home from school and these "nice" kids jumped out of the car and beat him up because they did not like him being a greaser. This mad S.E. Hinton mad, so she went home and started pounding out a story about a boy who was beaten up while he was walking home from the movies- the beginning of The Outsiders. She did not have a grand design. She just sat down and started to write. When S.E. Hinton looks back and thinks that it was totally written in her subconscious or something. Came from the Outsiders- speaking with S.E. Hinton
Well when i read the book i felt like it helped me a lot it was suck a good book... lmao jk i did not read it but the things people say about the book is that it was a good book and the want to read it a second time