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Analysis Of The Outsiders By Susan Eloise Hinton

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In the fictional book, The Outsiders (1967), Susan Eloise Hinton, better know as S.E. Hinton, asserts and reports that a young fourteen year old greaser, or “hood”, living in Tulsa, Oklahoma is more than he presents in a honest story of reality. Hinton writes a shocking and intense novel to establish a deeper meaning to the life of a greaser born on the wrong side of town. Susan Eloise Hinton develops the book off of her own highschool life when she was sixteen. Hinton tells the story along the lines of the Hero’s Journey Archetype, as the main character and protagonist, Ponyboy. Hinton’s purpose of starting this novel at age sixteen
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