Ponyboy Curtis lives on the Greaser side of town, until one violent night blurs every line he thought he knew.
Books mentioned in The Outsiders (4)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: “We killed time by reading Gone with the Wind and playing poker.”
The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins: “I’d read everything in the house about fifty million times, even Darry’s copy of The Carpetbaggers, though he’d told me I wasn’t old enough to read it.”
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost: “"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold... So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." Johnny was staring at me. "Where'd you learn that?" ... "Robert Frost wrote it."”
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: “I had to read Great Expectations for English, and that kid Pip, he reminded me of us—the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn't a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him.”