S. e. hinton wrote the outsiders when she was only 15. in an interview, she said, “every teenager feels that adults have no idea what's going on. that's exactly the way i felt when i wrote the outsiders. even today, the concept of the in-group and the out-group remains the same. the uniforms change, and the names of the groups change, but kids really grasp how similar their situations are to ponyboy's.” do you think this is true? in your answer, describe a situation today, either your own experience or the experience of someone you know, that is either similar to or different from a situation one of the characters faced in the outsiders.

Which sentence from the text best develops the theme about the importance of compassion for other people? "besides, he was the only person in the whole place with skin nearly as dark as hers." "at first she wanted to intern at her dad's gas station, but her teacher told her she needed to branch out and signed michelle up at the oakcourt nursing home, only 15 minutes away from her house." "still, michelle had been curious, and she felt sorry that erkan had a bad reputation among the staff." "she too had felt like everyone mistrusted her--especially at the nursing home where she was so much younger than the rest of the staff--so she understood how he must feel."