The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: S. E. Hinton
- Publish Date: April 20, 2006
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Violence, Teen & Young Adult Siblings Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature
- Format: PDF/ePub
- Size: 1 MB
- Pages: 224
- Price: Free
- ISBN-13: 978-0142407332
WHEN I STEPPED OUT into the bright sunlight
from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things
on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. I was wishing I
looked like Paul Newman– he looks tough and I don’t– but I
guess my own looks aren’t so bad. I have light-brown, almostred hair and greenish-gray eyes. I wish they were more gray,
because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be
content with what I have. My hair is longer than a lot of boys
wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides,
but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers
to get a haircut. Besides, I look better with long hair.
I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually
lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch
movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with
the actors. When I see a movie with someone it’s kind of
uncomfortable, like having someone read your book over your
shoulder. I’m different that way. I mean, my second-oldest
brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never
cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, Darrel, who we
call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story
or drawing a picture, so I’m not like them. And nobody in our
gang digs movies and books the way I do. For a while there, I
thought I was the only person in the world that did. So I loned
it.
Soda tries to understand, at least, which is more than
Darry does. But then, Soda is different from anybody; he
understands everything, almost. Like he’s never hollering at
me all the time the way Darry is, or treating me as if I was six
instead of fourteen. I love Soda more than I’ve ever loved
anyone, even Mom and Dad. He’s always happy-go-lucky and
grinning, while Darry’s hard and firm and rarely grins at all.
But then, Darry’s gone through a lot in his twenty years,
grown up too fast. Sodapop’ll never grow up at all. I don’t
know which way’s the best. I’ll find out one of these days.
Anyway, I went on walking home, thinking about the
movie, and then suddenly wishing I had some company.
Greasers can’t walk alone too much or they’ll get jumped, or
someone will come by and scream “Greaser!” at them, which
doesn’t make you feel too hot, if you know what I mean. We
get jumped by the Socs. I’m not sure how you spell it, but it’s
the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich
kids. It’s like the term “greaser,” which is used to class all us
boys on the East Side.
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