OUTSIDERS NOVEL

WHO IS S.E. HINTON?

• Born July 22, 1948
• Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Uses S.E. so people do not judge her by gender
• Susan Eloise Hinton
• 15 when she wrote Outsiders

WHAT IS THE OUTSIDERS?

• Novel based on teenage experiences
• Set in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Greasers and Socs
• Setting S.E. Hinton's hometown
• Based off of her life

WHAT WERE THE 1960'S LIKE?

• Popular movies were The Sound of Music, Rebel Without a Cause, Blackboard Jungle
• Music Groups were Statler Brothers and The Beatles
• President was Lyndon B. Johnson
• La-Dodgers won World Series
• Greasers and Socs

HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS THE NOVEL?

• Ranked #38 on American Library Associations Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Novels
• Novel Banned some places for many topics
• 14 million copies sold
• Second to Charlotte's Web on Publisher's Weekly List of Bestselling Children's Books

WHAT ARE THE THEMES OF THE NOVEL?

• Loyalty to friends in rough times
• Choices made to determine life or death
• Society and Class of the Socs and Greasers
• Violence
• Love for one another

THE GANGS

• Socs
• Greasers
• Socs preppy, rich, spoiled
• Greasers poor, tough, leather
• Conflicting gangs

SOCS SYMBOLS

• Cars
• Money

GREASER SYMBOLS

• Two-Bit's Switchblade
• Hair