The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton

The Outsiders
By S.E. Hinton

Significance:
i choose this book because i have read allot of books by S.E. Hinton and i thought that they were really well written and had good content. But it dose fol ow the same situation and genre as her other books but out of all of them this one stands out the most. it has a powerful story that is exceptionally well written and has more character connection and setting, also revolving around the cruelty and unfairness of the world but also at the good things but mainly around how some people get sucked into bad situations.

Perspective:
this work was created by some one who grew up in this time period and in a town where things like this happened [on a smaller scale] and she always enjoyed literature so she decided to write books on the problems around her. the book takes place in the 1970's in a place where some bad stuff happened like kids beating each other up and occasionally stabbing each other. she clearly is against the whole idea of poor people and crime, she mainly just has the same themes as the other books except i think that this book is more powerfully written and has more content.

Evidence:
the author as usual isn't trying to make an argument rather a statement, and that is the usual but as i said before the theme is the same she just improved the story to make it more entertaining. the author doesn't really need all this evidence to support her view its proven there is crime in places and violence its obvious [and if you don't belive me get in your cars and drive around east LA at like 1:00 am] so she doesn't really need all this so called "evidence" .

Connection:
this book takes place in the 70's and is a FICTIONAL story ergo the specific event in this story is not effecting us, but issues like crime and violence are and that is still a problem. you could read this book and based on the content you could decide no to go rob a store[or you could use common since]

Supposition:
see the crazy thing about this story is if you turned it around say the rich kids killed a poor kid instead of vice versa, then the entire situation would have changed because no one would really care that some poor kid was found dead rather than a rich kid was found murdered. see they'd probably say murdered instead of dead to make people sad then show abunch of picturesof the kid to get people angry [not saying this happened in the book] but if a poor kid died its one small article.