the outsiders is a book about a group of youthful greasers living in oklahoma, and about their struggles to exist in a …the outsiders is a book about a group of youthful greasers living in oklahoma, and about their struggles to exist in a society that seems designed to dismiss them. oklahoma is also the name of a popular musical.draw your own conclusions, or continue reading.see, i don't know from oklahoma in the sixties. maybe that is a place where street toughs call their little brothers "honey" and "baby" and enjoy sunsets and stars and reading margaret mitchell aloud to one another and who recite robert frost in quiet moments. maybe they do gymnastics before what they call "skin fighting" with the local rival boys. maybe they cry and snuggle together in bed at night and hold each other through hard times.not that there is anything wrong with that.it just seems to be queer behavior for a gang of juvenile delinquents.what?? no, i didn't mean queer like that. no, really, i just meant odd. but, now that you mention it. huh. yeah, it does seem a little queer. who knew that boys in leather could have a queer connotation?? and putting on tight t-shirts that show off every muscle before they go to meet the other boys? and making sure to fix their hair?? no, that's just what it says. in the book.these are their modern-day equivalentsmaybe 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:and how is tom waits in both movies?but all of that is just me giggling.what is more interesting, from a serious literary perspective is just an observation from reading this, the pigman, and revisiting the chocolate war and …