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The toughest hood in Ponyboy’s group of greasers. Dallas, known as “Dally,” is a hardened teen who used to run with gangs in New York. He has an elfin face and icy blue eyes and, unlike his friends, does not put grease in his white-blond hair.
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- Ali Parr
- S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders while she was still in high school. Susan Eloise Hinton was only 15 when she began writing the novel and was just 18 when it was first published.
- Rival gangs at Hinton’s own high school inspired the Socs and the Greasers. The tense divide between the upper class Socs (pronounced “soashes,” as in social) and the lower class “Greasers” at Hinton’s high school was so bitter that the gangs had to enter through separate doors.
- It took Hinton a year and a half to write The Outsiders. “During that time, I did four complete drafts,” the author said. “The first draft was forty pages; then I just kept rewriting and adding details.”
- Hinton didn’t plan to publish the novel. Hinton originally wrote The Outsiders primarily for herself, but the mother of one of her friends read a draft and thought that the book deserved a wider audience.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).
Sodapop Curtis. Sodapop's arc revolves around his efforts to maintain peace within his family and navigate the challenges of being a Greaser. His loyalty to his brothers and his relationships with outsiders contribute to his growth.
Curly, Tim’s younger brother, is described as “an average downtown hood, tough and not very bright.” He and Pony hold mutual respect after challenging each other on a dare.
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