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The Outsiders
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The Outsiders 'The Outsiders' is written by S.E. Hinton. It is set in the 1960s in a town in the USA. It is about the conflict of the two main teenager gangs called the Socs (short for Socials) and the Greasers. The Socs live on the West side where they live a supposedly better life with everything that they want and the Greasers live on the East side with nothing much but anger and jealousy about the Socs who always seem to be privileged in every way. The conflict (a state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; a clash.) remains strong because of the dissatisfaction of the opposing gangs with their lives. Socs and Greasers are separated into two different groups mainly because of the economic differences of their families. Socs can go on skiing holidays while the Greasers hang around at home and...
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