Part 1: Writing Prompt.The outsiders is said to be the first Young Adult novel to deal realistically with violence amongteenagers. Write a 200-word essay discussing why that matters in literature and in society.Part Two: Create a movie poster for a new version of the movie. Cast major characters with modernday actors. Your poster must include a significant quote from the story.The book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton was important because it told the story of teenageviolence in the world. Hinton made this book unique because she was a teenager herself and wroteabout teenagers and teenage violence.The main characters are kids growing up in New York’s West Side and are gang members in theSocs and the Greasers. They are different because one gang, the Socs, has money and theGreasers do not. This means they are rivals and sometimes, they fight each other. In one part of thenovel, Johnny, who is a former gang member in the Greasers, is beaten up by the Socs. Johnny hadbeen beat up before, by his dad, but the Socs scared and threatened him, which was different. Afterthat, he never walked alone by himself anymore and carried a switchblade.After he was beaten, Johnny was comforted by the Greasers and Cherry, who was in the Socs.They had a conversation about they were the same even if one had money, and the other did not.This tells us that teenagers are more the same than different, and have the same issues. If they aretalking to each other, they can understand each other more instead of fighting.In conclusion, the book “The Outsiders” shows us that we can be the same age and have thingsin common. Fighting over money or differences isn’t really necessary to do because it can createproblems for people to get hurt and die.
