The Outsider Analysis

Hinton has likely left the word “outsider” out of the book to let readers pander to the meaning of that word after completing the novel. To me, an outsider is Someone who is different from the crowd, but not in a favorable way. for example, an unintelligent person would be excluded from most social groups due to their negative trait that a majority of others do not have, this, of course, does not necessarily mean that many people are intelligent, rather, that most are not unintelligent.

The word “outsider” in Hinton’s eyes, would most probably mean something along the lines of “A person who is mistreated by society due to things that other people could draw connections with them”. for example, a thug, which is what is used in the actual book.
they are both social outcasts for the activities, another reason one might think the greasers are the group the title is talking about is that the book places Soc’s on some sort of social throne that towers above everyone else, but in reality the Soc’s are just as socially outcast as the