“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”
AUTHOR'S LIFE:
S.E. Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was fifteen years old going to sixteen when she started writing this story. She decided to write this story because of a boy that was beaten up on his way home from the movies. (the Outsiders page 10). She has always enjoyed reading but wasn't satisfied with the literature that was being written for young adults, which influenced her to write novels like The Outsiders.( Biography).
AUTHOR/CHARACTER COMPARISON:
S.E, Hinton doesn’t compare herself to anyone in the book but I think that she is mostly like Ponyboy. Why I think that is because she said that everything that happened to the boy that was beaten up most likely happened to her in the past. She also said that she didn’t like any of the non-fiction adult books so what she did was she started her own books.”She wrote her second book while she was in college at the University of Tulsa, studying to be a teacher. “I don't have the nerve or physical stamina to teach,” she says. “I did my student teaching, but I couldn't leave the kids and their problems behind me.”(S.E. Hinton)
S.E. Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was fifteen years old going to sixteen when she started writing this story. She decided to write this story because of a boy that was beaten up on his way home from the movies. (the Outsiders page 10). She has always enjoyed reading but wasn't satisfied with the literature that was being written for young adults, which influenced her to write novels like The Outsiders.( Biography).
AUTHOR/CHARACTER COMPARISON:
S.E, Hinton doesn’t compare herself to anyone in the book but I think that she is mostly like Ponyboy. Why I think that is because she said that everything that happened to the boy that was beaten up most likely happened to her in the past. She also said that she didn’t like any of the non-fiction adult books so what she did was she started her own books.”She wrote her second book while she was in college at the University of Tulsa, studying to be a teacher. “I don't have the nerve or physical stamina to teach,” she says. “I did my student teaching, but I couldn't leave the kids and their problems behind me.”(S.E. Hinton)