The Outsiders

Pretty much exactly as I remembered it from 6th grade. As an adult. some of Hinton's sentences hit me hard-her writing could be impactful. The story itself is a bit melodramatic, but the message of hope is strong. She does this thing, two or three times, where Ponyboy “forgets” to mention something in a paragraph about something else and it just ripped me out of the story immediately but it's forgiveable when you consider a 14 year old boy is supposed to be writing the story as an English theme. The one example I can think of right away is when Ponyboy is talking about a fight and he's like, oh, I forgot to mention I run track. Then there is a bit about how great he is at track, and then he gets back to what he was saying originally. There are a couple of those forgetful expositions in there that really don't have anything to do with the plot.