Tex | Themes
Hinton again uses the theme of the teenage youth maturing as expressed in the central character of Tex. In fact, Tex as a novel is again the story of a narrator who (like Ponyboy in The Outsiders, 1967) is made to undergo some of the most intensive weeks of his life. At the end the reader again sees the character come to a new realization about himself and his world, though this new insight is achieved subtly.
The theme of alienation again appears in Tex, as it does in all Hinton novels. Tex feels apart from his world, a world that seems to be beyond...
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