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S.E Hinton developed the theme of loss of innocence by using the setting, plot, and characters. When Pony boy, Soda pop, and Darry lost their parents it started from there, they had to rely on each other and figure their way through the society where social class occurs. alone they have to find their way around the upper class people. People would fight and it would make them stronger until some people died so it make them weak by when Ponyboy and Jonny had to run away to try not to get caught and that sucks because Ponyboy was getting drowned by a socs and Johnny had to kill him. Ponyboy always has his brothers to rely on and since they were alone he barely had anyone . After the church burnt down everything went downhill Johnny later on dies and that leads to dally dying soon after. Dally was upset that he had to rob the store and held a fake gun up to the worker at the local store. The worker called the police and the cops ended up catching him and shooting him repetitively. They all lost their innocence in a harmful or sad way and shows the loss of innocence.

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Ponyboy, and dally watched Johnny die infront of them from his injuries from the fire and soon after dally robs a store and gets caught and shot by the police and dies in front of them also
"and johnny died" pg1

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The greasers and the socs had a big fight, the greasers won.

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They go with dally and when they go back to the chruch its on fire and there are little kids inside so Soda pop and Ponyboy decide to go in and help them

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Johnny killed one of the socs (bob) with a knife because bob was trying to drown ponyboy in the fountain so and johnny didnt know what else to do. Johnny and ponyboy run away to an abandoned church
"i killed him" pg 57

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pony boy fell asleep in the lot with Johnny and woke up late and darry was waiting for him thinking something bad happened to him and when Ponyboy comes home darry slaps ponyboy and ponyboy runs away
"no one in my family had ever slapped me before" pg50

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sodapop, Dary, and pony boys parents die. They are working on becoming better people by helping eachother

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In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is about loss of innocence and reveals that people should always do the right thing because anything can happen