I hated The Outsiders when we were forced to read in 7th grade. It was supposed be about highschool aged gangsters in the 50’s and 7th grade me was very excited going into it. But she did a terrible job capturing how 14 year old boys talk and think. She wrote pages and pages about how hot the main characters older brothers were from the younger brothers point of view. If it were an actual 14 year old boy describing his brothers it’d would have just said “my older brothers are stupid and gay and Pepsi and Ponyboy are stupid gay names”.
Jokes aside she did a terrible job writing as a boy. And I think her names are stupid
I hated The Outsiders when we were forced to read in 7th grade. It was supposed be about highschool aged gangsters in the 50’s and 7th grade me was very excited going into it. But she did a terrible job capturing how 14 year old boys talk and think. She wrote pages and pages about how hot the main characters older brothers were from the younger brothers point of view. If it were an actual 14 year old boy describing his brothers it’d would have just said “my older brothers are stupid and gay and Pepsi and Ponyboy are stupid gay names”.
Jokes aside she did a terrible job writing as a boy. And I think her names are stupid