A review by lovebugger
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

5.0

it's so weird coming to a book like this at 18, rather than when I was told to read it at 14. I remember at the time I was really struggling with domestic abuse in my household and the aftereffects of it, what it meant for my mental health and my own personal story, and I think if I had read that book back then, I probably would have been so pissed that it was summer reading. I think I would have been so mad because this institution of a school that I went to, that didn't want to help me or see me as a person because I was struggling, would make me read this book. I think I would have had a better college essay if I even read this last year too. I don't know what I'm really talking about. But it's made me think of my trauma and my past differently, maybe because I see myself in these kids, and know that if I wasn't as privileged as I grew up, I would have related to them a hell of a lot more. I'm just gutted after reading that.