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Post by goldencompass on Aug 8, 2009 22:34:00 GMT -5
Hello all, couldn't resist making this my first post.
I was in Grade 7. Probably about 13. There was a shelf of random books in the class and I picked up this tattered copy based solely on the title. I was very much an outsider at the time, and that was what drew me.
What kept me was the story, of course. I really related to Ponyboy. I grew up rather poor, and was attending a school in a relatively rich area of town. I really felt that this book was me. I wrote terribly bad fanfiction about it (including what I now know was a self insert...) and obsessed about it in my reading journal at school.
The love has never died. It remains my favourite book many (many!) years later.
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Post by Keira on Aug 9, 2009 9:58:37 GMT -5
and obsessed about it in my reading journal at school. The love has never died. It remains my favourite book many (many!) years later.
What I always loved was that my teachers relished in the fact that I loved The Outsiders. It's like an insiders secret. No pun intended, lol. |
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Post by Maggie Writersblock on Aug 9, 2009 21:33:23 GMT -5
I love The Outsiders so much. I know much more about it than my teacher did. So, what am I doing this fall? Teaching it for her.
I still use my 7th grade reading journal for writing. Although, I dumped half the stories in there....
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Post by astiosis on Jun 2, 2011 19:10:12 GMT -5
The first mention I heard about it was my older brother by one year telling me about the books he read since he had always read more books than I ever did. He mentioned this one book called the Outsiders saying that the book was good, but way sentimental.
So, next year, my English teacher was talking to one of my classmates about what book we should read after reading To Kill a Mockingbird. He was one of those teachers who was closely connected to his students (we fuckin' watched a Smallville episode every friday, barring those in-appropriate episodes, of course). So my classmate Lee who suggested my class to read the story To Kill a Mockingbird in the first place then suggested we read the Outsiders. His initial response was 'no' claiming it to be a "core English" book, but then I suggested it should be as well since my older brother was an "advanced English" kid who read the story in 8th grade.
It's ironic how I actually pushed for reading the book in the first place seeing how as soon as we got it, I treated it as every other book - largely ignoring it until I realized I was about to get a C (I NEVER get C's in school, never). Which was weird because I actually enjoyed TKAM a lot despite skipping through large portions of it.
Yeah, we would have discussions in the class, but nothing I found too interesting. I actually connected to Dallas most in the second chapter when he was acting like a dick to Cherry, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Then I stopped there.
Being a kid who grew up chasing dragon flies in the Philippines u; chilled out in Alaska for short while; roamed the streets of New York; then indulged in the incredibly violent world of video games when I just a 13-year-old boy (God damn, I'm old). So my mind immediately clicked when my friend mentioned that someone died. And soon after, I read the whole book in one day.
Which is how I ended up here.
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