What are the Outsiders Outside Of?

The Outsiders
By S. E. Hinton

S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders. Amazing. Hard to believe this novel was written by a teen. What trumps all here is a sympathetic protagonist and a strong storyline. Hinton can get away with too much telling, and a little lack of logic to her prose only makes her first person narrator all the more authentic. But the story and the gravitas: culture wars, suffering, loss, humanizing the stereotyped “bad guy,” all make for an amazing book and at an amazing time in history.

Stay gold.

Rebecca Grabill

Rebecca has been writing since childhood, her first book about a kitten published between homemade cardboard covers in second grade. Although she studied religion and philosophy in university, she continued writing, earning an MFA from Hamline University and publishing multiple picture books (no longer with homemade covers) and a collection of poetry with a variety of New York and independent publishers. She has also published a wide array of fiction, essays, and poetry in magazines and journals and photographs for Getty Images. She balances writing with homeschooling the younger of her six children, launching her young adults, church activities, and overseeing a small flock of chickens in rural West Michigan.

www.rebeccagrabill.com
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