Summary Of The Outsiders And My Brother Sam Is Dead

Children are not always put in the best environments. But what lessons do they gain in bad environments? Well, the texts The Outsiders, published in 1967 written by the teenager, S.E. Hinton and the text My Brother Sam is Dead written by brothers, James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier share a similar theme about children. Even though the youngest protagonist in My Brother Sam is Dead lives in a small town called Redding in Connecticut, and The Outsiders takes place in a small town called Tulsa in Oklahoma invaded by gangs, both witness similar situations in growing up. The Outsiders tells a story of the barriers and oppression between two social classes in the 1960’s called the Greasers and the Socs (Socials). It represents the struggles