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The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).
The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School, [8] the Greasers and the Socs, [3] and her desire to empathize with the Greasers by writing from their point of view. [c] She wrote the novel when she was 16 and it was published in 1967. [10] Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies. [8]
Greasers are a youth subculture that emerged in the 1950s and early 1960s from predominantly working class and lower-class teenagers and young adults in the United States and Canada. The subculture remained prominent into the mid-1960s and was particularly embraced by certain ethnic groups in urban areas , particularly Italian Americans and ...
The film, set in 1965, revolves around the conflict between two teenage gangs: the poorer greasers and the wealthier “Socs.” ... But the greasers had to live in basement rooms that we found
Travel to the 1960s and join Ponyboy Curtis (played by the moving and talented Brody Grant in his Broadway debut) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when tensions between two rival gangs, the Greasers and Socs ...
The Greasers and Socs brutally fight one another in the pouring rain, and eventually, the Greasers win. They go visit Johnny in the hospital after the fight. Johnny tells Ponyboy to "stay gold," and then dies. All the Greasers become emotional. Overwhelmed with grief, Dally storms out of the hospital.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, The Curtis brothers' parents are deceased, leaving eldest brother Darry to raise and support Sodapop and Ponyboy, his younger brothers, in 1965 Tulsa, where youth subculture is centered around two gangs — the affluent "Socs" and the poorer greasers. The "Socs" harass and assault Ponyboy until some of his fellow ...
Hinton based the characters, the Greasers and the Socs, off of teenage gangs and alienated youth in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960s. The Outsiders has sold over fourteen million copies since it was published. In 1983, The Outsiders became a movie, and was later released onto DVD. [1]