Commentary On The Outsiders By Se Hinton

FINAL EDIT: In my eighth grade English class, we are reading a YA novel titled, “The Outsiders.” I am amazed by this text because the author, SE Hinton, uses dramatic wording to create tension and imagination in her writing.. When I read this book, it feels like I am in the story, and that every event is the climax of the book. The author uses a great deal of lifelike words to the point where I can grasp onto an idea of how the character feels and what the character sees in certain events in The outsiders.. As a result to the author's well used diction, this book sold over more than 10 MILLION copies! In SE Hinton's best - selling YA novel, The Outsiders, she uses brilliant vivid imagery to create cinematic imagery. For example, in one of the events in this novel, there is great use of wording, it reads, “...what it was like in a burning ember, and I thought: Now I know, it’s a red hell.” This sentence makes it clear that this event, was not a very happy one. When reading this sentence, we can infer that being in a burning ember is not very pleasant. This one of the many ways SE Hinton spawns imagination for the readers of her book.

In one of the chapters, where a drastic event occurs, I see enhanced images in my head. As Pony is trying to rescue the poor little kids from the abandoned church, he states, “I couldn’t laugh because I was scared I’d drown in the smoke.” The author could easily have gotten to the point of the event, but astonishingly, she is very detailed in her writing. I feel the tension as Ponyboy in this situation, because I know smoke is not good and not easy to inhale, so i feel that I understand what Pony feels