Stereotypes In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton started to write her book The Outsiders when she was 14 years old in the 1960s. The novel takes place in Tulsa Oklahoma during the 1960s and focus around a teenager named Ponyboy Curtis. Tulsa is split in two parts where on one side the rich people live and the call them the Socs. On the other side all the poor people live and they are called the Greasers. Pony boy is a greaser and he lives with his two older brothers Sodapop and Darry because his parents died. In the book the Socs and Greasers are constantly going after each other because of stereotypes and Pony also goes along with being a greaser and gets in trouble. Don’t let stereotypes affect your own Personality. For instance when Pony and Johnny are walking back to the