Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters.
The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. But That Was Then - is only superficially Now. Still superior to most of the contemporary anti-drug novels, this one will be popular with The Outsiders' many fans.
In contrast, the acid trip and its effects are overdone and the whole hippie scene unconvincing. A friend is killed protecting the narrator-protagonist from two tough Texans, and the fight scenes still contain Hinton's most effective writing. And though the lights with the Socs are said to have "slacked off," greasers manage to get beaten up and sent to the hospital with the old regularity. and the Socs tried to look poor." Changes in the young author's style are similarly skin-deep: there is a bit more philosophizing of the "give a damn and you get blasted" variety, but the same sentimental, heavy-handed treatment of illustrative incident. Now the greasers wore their hair down over their foreheads instead of slicked back. Now, "it was hard to tell a Soc from a greaser. The 'greaser' territory of The Outsiders is the scene of an updated novel in which Ponyboy Curtis is a minor character and gang fights have given way to drugs as the major youth problem.
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