The Outsiders

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The Outsiders

• Background Information

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S.E. Hinton

• Susan Eloise Hinton
• Born in 1948 in Tulsa, OK
• She was a self-confessed tomboy growing up
  wanting to be a cowboy or a writer
• At 16 she wrote The Outsiders because she was
  aggravated with the social climate of her high
  school.

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S.E. Hinton

• Wrote under the penname S.E. Hinton after
  publishers expressed concern that males, the
  prime target audience, would not take the novel
  seriously if written by a woman.

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S.E. Hinton

• Suffered from writers block after writing The
  Outsiders and plummeted into depression
• After some soul searching and a nudge from her
  boyfriend she wrote That Was Then, This is Now in
  1971.
• (Good novel for student choice lit circle end of
  year)

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Other Novels

• Rumble Fish 1975 (eventually into a movie)
• Tex 1979 (eventually into a movie)
• 1983 The Outsiders movie is released
• 1988 Taming the Star Runner (made into movie)
• 1995 The Puppy Sister and Little David, Big David
  (Childrens books)
• 20 years later 2004 Hawkes Harbor (adult lit)

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The Setting of The Outsiders
Oklahoma
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Hairstyles of the Fifties and Sixties

• Women wore their hair either soft and curled or
  pulled into a ponytail and secured by a colorful
  scarf.
• Men often wore their hair in a buzz cut or flat
  top.

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The Duck Tail

• To accomplish this look, lots of hair grease was
  required. In this case, a little dab ain't gonna
  do ya. This is where the term greasers was
  first established.
• There were no blow dryers to create a look. To
  make hair stay in a certain style, you had to
  either spray or grease.

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Fashion of the Early 1960s

• This look was made popular in the 1950s and
  continued through the early 60s. A poodle skirt
  is a wide swing skirt with a poodle appliquéd or
  transferred onto the fabric.

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• Girls usually wore flared skirts, but the pencil
  skirt became popular in the late 50s. All
  dresses and skirts came to or below the knee.

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Mens Fashion

• For casual dress, men often wore cardigans
  (sweaters) over their dress shirts.

The cardigan sweater seen here was a popular
style which was used for the "letter"
sweater-popular among the younger men and
athletes.
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Madras
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English Leather

• Popular, yet expensive cologne

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Corvair (Chevrolet)

• Red Corvair was a popular car prior to the 65
  Mustang

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Mustang
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The Coolest of the Cool

• The coolest of the young men often wore
  leather jackets over T-shirts with jeans and
  loafers. Often, this outfit would make people
  think that the wearer was a hood.

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Drive-In Movies
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Allusion

• a reference to a person, event, thing or to a
  part of another text

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Allusions in The Outsiders

• Paul Newman
• Robert Frost
• Great Expectations
• Gone With the Wind
• The Beatles
• Elvis

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Paul Newman

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• The Hustler
• The Long, Hot Summer

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More recently
Doc
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and you may have even seen him at the store!
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens

• This is the story of Pip, an orphan boy adopted
  by a blacksmiths family. Pip learns how to find
  happiness. He learns the meaning of friendship
  and the meaning of love and he becomes a better
  person for it.

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Gone With The Wind
American classic in which a manipulative woman
and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love
affair in the American south during the Civil War
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The Beatles

• The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in
  Liverpool in 1960, and one of the most
  commercially successful and critically acclaimed
  acts in the history of popular music.

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Elvis

• Elvis Presley was one of the most popular
  American singers of the 20th century. A cultural
  icon, he is widely known by the single name
  Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of
  Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".

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Robert FrostNothing Gold Can Stay
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Analysis of Nothing Gold Can Stay

• This simplistic, beautiful poem illustrates the
  coming of age with plants and nature. When your
  young your gold. Every thing is new and
  beautiful. The flower. After a short time, hence
  But only so an hour., you prepare for
  adulthood, like when Leaf subsides to leaf, as
  a tree prepares itself for winter. So Eden sank
  to grief. refers to looking back on your past
  and wishing you were still a kid. So dawn goes
  down to day, is becoming an adult. You cant
  stay a kid and Nothing gold can stay.
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Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature's first green is
goldHer hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a
flowerBut only so an hour.Then leaf subsides
to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down
to day.Nothing gold can stay.