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S.E. Hinton uses her characters, setting, and plot, to Develop and reinforce the theme. She does this by using those elements to compare Ponyboy's maturity and innocence to the rest of the characters and the world. Ponyboy starts as somewhat of an odd one out in the Greasers as he often does things different and has different values than most of them. But, through the experiences we see Ponyboy connects with the greasers that at the same time shows how these events are affecting his innocence

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The theme first starts to really affect the story when Ponyboy's immaturity in the way he refused to hear out Darry, caused for a much more scarring event to occur in the form of Johnny having to kill Bob to save Ponyboy

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The theme first starts to really affect the story when Ponyboy's immaturity in the way he refused to hear out Darry, caused for a much more scarring event to occur in the form of Johnny having to kill Bob to save Ponyboy

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The Theme develops on throughout the story as  Ponyboy lives through more terrible experiences, such as his friends dying, and watching Ponyboy mature to deal with it

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The Theme develops on throughout the story as  Ponyboy lives through more terrible experiences, such as his friends dying, and watching Ponyboy mature to deal with it

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Dally Dying,       Ponyboy saw how events can affect people differently when Dally went crazy and robbed the store after Johnny died          

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Dally Dying,       Ponyboy saw how events can affect people differently when Dally went crazy and robbed the store after Johnny died          

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This was when Ponyboy had to learn about, and deal with a close friend dying.

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This was when Ponyboy had to learn about, and deal with a close friend dying.

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This was the first time Johnny had to truly hurt someone.

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This was the first time Johnny had to truly hurt someone.

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This was the first time Ponyboy had done something to anger Darry to the point of hitting him. Ponyboy runs away, refusing to listen to Darry which shows his immaturity 

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This was the first time Ponyboy had done something to anger Darry to the point of hitting him. Ponyboy runs away, refusing to listen to Darry which shows his immaturity 

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Ponyboy Getting Slapped by Darry for the first time

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Ponyboy Getting Slapped by Darry for the first time

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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about Loss of innocence and reveals that eventually everyone must go through experiences that will take away one's innocence.