The next night, Ponyboy and two greaser friends, the hardened Dally and the quiet Johnny, meet Cherry and Marcia, a pair of Soc girls, at a drive-in movie theater. Several greasers, including Ponyboy's two older brothers-the paternal Darry and the popular Sodapop-come to his rescue. Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen-year-old boy who is a member of a 'gang of greasers', is leaving a movie theater when he is jumped by 'Socs', the greasers' rival gang. A stage musical adaptation with a libretto by Adam Rapp and songs by Jamestown Revival is currently in the works as of 2022. A dramatic stage adaptation was written by Christopher Sergel and published in 1990.

The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is never explicitly stated in the book.Ī film adaptation was produced in 1983 by Francis Ford Coppola, and a short-lived television series appeared in 1990, picking up where the movie left off. The story is told in first-person perspective by teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class ' Greasers' and the upper-class 'Socs' (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z/-short for Socials). Hinton was 18 when the book was published. Hinton started writing the novel when she was 15 and wrote the bulk of it when she was 16 and a junior in high school.

Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press. The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E.

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