Camus, Albert (1969). Lyrical and critical essays. Thody, Philip, 1928–1999. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-394-43439-0. OCLC 16016438.

This story is told from the greasers side which is awesome because I really don't care about the socs!Hudon, Louis (1960). " The Stranger and the Critics". Yale French Studies (25): 59–64. doi: 10.2307/2928902. JSTOR 2928902. During the first verse of "Versailles", from the album Aethiopes by Billy Woods, woods directly references the killing in the book with the line, "It's hot on these streets monsieur, I might shoot a arab".

What did I think of it this time? It is still boring, and I didn’t connect with any of the characters. in the fifties and sixties, there was seemingly more free-floating apprehension and fear: the a-bomb, the draft, various factors contributed to this fear of an imminent death beyond anyone's control. all this anxiety and fear of the establishment created a more pronounced sense of "us" and "them" that i think i blabbed on a little in the pigman review, but children were just treated like smaller adults, really. and the literature reflects this. all of these books seem to emphasize a value placed on the preservation of childhood innocence - staying gold, protecting a younger sister from the taint of phoniness, encouraging kids to act like kids and roller skate through the house and disregard the parental restrictions in this one safe place... Timothy "Tim" Shepard: Leader of another greaser gang: an organized downtown one. He is also a friend of Dally's.Morreale, Gerald (February 1967). "Meursault's Absurd Act". The French Review. 40 (4): 456–462. JSTOR 385377.

Salamano is an old man who routinely walks his dog. He abuses it but is still attached to it. When he loses his dog, he is distressed and asks Meursault for advice. He testifies at Meursault's trial.Graham, Ginnnie (April 2, 2016). "Ginnie Graham: Going inside 'The Outsiders' house". Tulsa World . Retrieved June 6, 2017. Even if you read it with reservations you must admit it provides a reading list of seminal works, mainly of the 20th century: Hermann Hesse, Mann, Tolstoy, T.E. Lawrence, Blake, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Eliot and Yeats ( I only began to read Dostoevsky, Mann and Hesse in my 20s). Even his detractors admit his talent for writing readable summaries of books and riveting biographical outlines. maybe this is just what happens when a teen girl writes this kind of material, tomboy or not. i had seen the movie before, so i knew it was about pretty boys fighting, but there is a lot more at work here, subtextually. i have also seen rumble fish, which is an awful movie based on another hinton book that is even more... musical, but is an excuse to look at this: Meursault's mother was sent to an old people's home three years prior to her death, as noted in the opening lines of the novel. As Meursault nears the time for his execution, he feels a kinship with his mother, thinking she, too, embraced a meaningless universe. So somehow I never read this in middle school, and when I read it now, I just end up giggling at half of the overwrought emotion (which happened with Catcher in the Rye too, but there I'm going to assume Salinger was writing on multiple levels, because he was a competent adult, whereas The Outsiders was written by someone Holden's age). But it's still a pretty awesome book.