Isolation In The Outsiders

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ABSTRACT This project is based on the book '' THE OUTSIDER''. The outsider is a book by S.E Hinton it was published in 1966 .The book is all about the society , class, rich and poor .At that time there was a two group soc and greaser we further do study about this in introduction. The themes that highlighted in this book are bridge between rich and poor , violence ,isolation , class difference the theme which i am going to highlight is violation and isolation because now a day's these two are so common between teenager age . INTRODUCTION S.E Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton) Was born in July 22 1948 she was an American writer best known for her young adult novels ,specially The Outsiders .She wrote this book when she was in the high …show more content…

The outsider is a book which was published in 1967 by S.E Hinton when she was 15 years old she started this book and finished it when she was in the high school means 16 years of age. The book is all about the two groups socs and greasers the two groups at that time . pony boy is the narrator of the book he lost his parents in the road accident . He is the youngest brother . His elder brother take care of him after their parents death .they are the member of the greasers apart from many financial disadvantage there is another disadvantage that is threaten by socs who are the rich people of the west side . Pony and soda allow to stay under Dally's guidance . Pony boy love to watch movie and all . The story open when pony boy walking home alone after watching movie . He was stopped by the socs ( west side rich people) and they beat pony boy so badly and they threaten to kill him. so there violence is highlighted as violence means physical force intension to kill someone or to hurt . As violence is there that socs beaten and wanted to kill pony boy because he belong to another group. the violation that highlighted in this book is all …show more content…

'' Suddenly it was deathly quiet .we had all frozen nobody in my family had ever hit m . nobody '' This is the most vital part of the novel . In the above passage pony boy is mentioning the Darry's violence towards him .this violence push him to go out into the night and is what makes him decide to go to the park at two in the morning . so this is the violence is mention or highlighted in book . another theme which i want to elaborate is isolation a word used for separating from the friends or from family . isolation leads to anxiety in children .isolation word here is used for pony boy . In the beginning of the chapter pony boy feel isolated by members of the gang , His elder brother , and the society . His passion for reading books , watching movie aren't appreciated by the members of the gang. ''If you can picture a little dark puppy which had been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of stranger , you''ll have johnny. .... ! here pony boy compare a situation of johnny with lost puppy . Johnny is surrounded by the group of people still he is feeling isolated or in other words feeling alone

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