The award winning novel the Outsiders is a true wake up call to society regarding concepts that have been present in society over the years. The story is looked at in the point of view of the east side, the lower class or in this case the greasers. The novel has received recognition by winning several awards such as: the New York tribune best teenage book list in 1967, the Chicago tribune book world spring book festival honor book also in 1967, the ALA best young adult books in 1975, and then later on won the Massachusetts children book award in 1979. The story takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma where the author was raised. The author was 15 when she started writing the book but wrote most of it when she was 16, however the book was published when she was 18. Other then the fact that the writer’s age was young making that a challenge, the writer was also a girl. The book was published in 1967, when sexism was still an issue thus causing the writer to go by S.E Hinton (her initials). The purpose behind it was so that people would give the book a fair chance and as a matter of fact when people found out she was a girl they were quit astonished. One of the many concepts that were present was honor among the lawless. It showed that ones social class is not an attributing factor to ones honor. This is displayed in many realistic life like scenes where the lawless/ the greasers display more honor despite being the low social class. Even though the greasers are put in many situations