The Outsiders

I have read this book in finnish in seventh grade, but I didn´t realize it until I had read like 50 pages. The fact that I had read this book didn´t bother me cause it is really a pleasure to read it all over again. The book tells a story about few friends who lives together, because their parents are dead. These boys are called Ponyboy, Sodapop and Darry. The book tells about teenagers who are in different gangs and have a little bit of conflict with each others. The gangs are called Socs and Greasers, boys mentioned before belong to the Greasers. There are also other boys in the greasers such as Johnny, Steve , Dallas and Two-Bit.
There were many things I really enjoyed while reading this book, but after a little bit of reading I started to notice how great these characters were. There were so many similar characters, like for example whose basic life story is being a rebel and so on, but in a way every character stood out by being so unique. That was the most admirable thing I noticed while reading this book, but one other thing stood out as well. This book is frightening brutal and realistic, it wont try to hide anything instead it tells a story as cruel and realistic as it can be told.
When I made a little background check about the writer I was actually suprised, because the writer was at the age of 19 when she wrote this book. Other thing that stood out as well was that this book really divides oppinions because of its gang violence and underage smoking and drinking.
If you are looking for a novel The Outsiders is a great one. As it says on the cover ”A revealing novel about teenagers by a teenager” and every word in this book is there for a reason and tells one of the most beatiful stories ever told.