Reflection On The Outsiders

In addition to the first two impacts of inspiring change and drawing attention to the inequities in testing, authors can have the most important impact of teaching today’s youth the importance of compassion. After reading The Outsiders, by SE Hinton, teenage readers cannot help but feel grief for all of the poor characters who died early because of their horrible lot in life. The Greasers in The Outsiders were a poor group of young adults who faced extreme challenges daily. Life was unfair to the Greasers because of their extreme poverty, alcohol abuse, and being surrounded by violence, and there really was no way for them to escape. With the widening disparity between the poor and the rich, SE Hinton wrote The Outsiders perhaps as a way