Guys is this a good thesis statement??? If not, tell me something that I can fix In the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton and in the article “How neighborhoods affect poor teen boys,” by the Marshall Project, both authors discuss the idea that a person’s environment can have a heavy impact on their character and actions. In the novel, Hinton describes the greasers who live in a poor kind of environment next to a wealthy environment which causes the Greasers to get in more trouble and more fights and battles. The author of the article describes a similar type of environment which causes the boys who live there to cause and get into more trouble and the girls get in less trouble.