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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:36
Did you read The Outsiders for school?
And I have been giving to some of those parts in the book that are a little more intense and it just made me want to know how many of you out there had to read The Outsiders for school at any point. Do you remember it at all? Did you like it? For me, it's been significant in that it was one of the first books I remember reading that really was engaging with class in a way that resonated with me
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 1:43
I didn't understand the violence. I had no conception of class. Growing up in suburbs where everyone I knew was middle class, yeah, it made no sense to me. So it was like reading the Dragon Riders of Pearn or the Hobbit. It was just like, all right, these characters are getting into scrapes, and they speak their own language, and it's kind of like America, but it's this weird yeah, I didn't get it
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 3:22
Hey, I do remember the book The Outsiders, and when you posted this, I am stretching my brain trying to remember. I was in AP Honors English, and we had an option. It was always an option, each set of reading. And so I know Outsiders was one option, and then there was a second option. I don't know if it was beloved. I think it was Beloved, and I think I had chosen beloved to read instead of The Outsiders, I think
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:44
Tim, I loved hearing what you had to say about your experience of reading The Outsiders, because it makes so much sense to me that as a young person growing up in a pretty, like, solidly, middle class world, that you'd be like, what is this? Why are you are they talking this way? And what's going on? And also, too, I think just that time period is so interesting
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:10
And it's actually, I think, why I decided to become a writer, because the book I chose was The House on Mango Street, and I read it the same year that I read The Outsiders. And it was another one of those books that was one of the first books I really remember that was like, engaging with class in a particular way, and specifically The House of Mango Street, race and gender. And it really struck a chord me, and also the language was just so beautiful