Introduction In this analysis of the book “The Outsiders” by SE Hinton I will discuss the development of the characters and plot, as well as the setting, the author's style and my opinions on the book. In this part of the analysis I will provide some information about the book's topics and the author. The author wrote the story when she was only 16 years old, in the 1950s. The book was successful and was sold, and is still sold, in many copies as a children's novel. A movie was made about it, and even today there are many schools that use this book in middle and high schools for English lessons. Comedies have also been made about the book. The Outsiders is about a gang. They live in a town in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14-year-old greaser, tells the story. Other characters include Sodapop and Darry, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Dallas, and Two-Bit, who were also gang members and friends of Ponyboy. This story deals with two forms of social classes: the socs, the rich kids, and the greasers, the poor kids. The socs go around looking for trouble and greasers to beat up, and then the greasers are blamed for this, because they are poor and can't influence the authorities. I hope you will enjoy and learn something about the book by reading this analysis. Plot Development The plot development in the book “The Outsiders” by SE Hinton was easy to follow. In this part of the book analysis I will provide further details on the development of the plot. There were no hooks or obstacles at the beginning of the book, the first sentence starts straight away with the plot, without any preface. This is the beginning of the first sentence: “When I came out into the sunlight from the darkness of the movie theater…” (page 9). As you can see, it gets straight to the point without prologues or any kind of introduction. The plot development halfway through the story made sense and was easy to understand. It was plain and simple and the events occurred in a reasonable order. The ending of the story was a bit expected. I predicted Johnny's death because a broken neck usually means death. Dally's death was not as predictable as Johnny's because it was said that: "He was tougher than all of us: harder, colder, meaner"..