For Wednesday, please consider the following questions about The Outsiders:
1) Why is there so much attention to what the narrator and the other characters look like? Is it important that the narrator and his brothers are attractive?
2) Thinking about the Hirsch article, and the idea of blood kinship versus belonging in le genre humaine (literal fraternite vs metaphorical fraternite), what do you make of the importance of brotherhood in The Outsiders?
3) Stories, movies, novels, poems, feature heavily in The Outsiders. In particular what do you make of the fact that the novel opens with the narrator leaving the Movie house and stepping out into the light?