I was 16 when I wrote it and those were the emotions I was feeling. They're still kind of putting on a mask to fit in. Why do you think it still resonates today?Įveryone identifies with being an outsider, even within their own group they don't feel like they can be themselves. It was all "Mary Jane goes to the prom" - that kind of thing. I also wrote it to read it because back in those days, there wasn't anything realistic being written about teenage lives. I just liked to write and I had been writing for about eight years when I began The Outsiders. The story idea came from what was going on in my high school. Hinton is in Vancouver this weekend and stopped by the CBC's The Early Edition to speak with host Rick Cluff. The unflinching, realistic depictions of gang violence, family dysfunction and teenage life made the book a subject of controversy but also a staple of high school curricula. Hinton's 1967 coming-of-age book describes the rivalries between two teen gangs in Oklahoma in the 1960s. Those famous words from the teen novel The Outsiders were written by then 16-year-old author S.E.
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