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S.E. Hinton develops the theme through the setting by making more haunting or scary points in the story at night and the happier points in the story in the day. When Johnny stabs the soc and Dally dies, the scenes are at night, when Ponyboy says his poem in the church, it is day. She develops the theme through charter by making a good and evil side of the situation and having the protagonists seem good and then have some of them die as a way of making you feel sad for the main protagonist. She also develops theme through the plot by having bad plots such as characters dying right after or before a good plot, this gives a break in the time of stress for the character. She also has events that foreshadow other events like how she stated that Ponyboy and Johnny always get jumped in the first chapter, and then in chapter 4 Johnny and Ponyboy get jumped for "Stealing the Socs girls".

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😎 🔫👮‍♂️Dally gets shot by the Police.

Analysis - Seeing the leader of the gang, the one he looked up to most, was devastating since he wont have a role model anymore.

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🤕 Johnny dies.

Analysis - Seeing his best friend, the one who he trusted the most die, would traumatize him since Ponyboy trusted him the most.

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🔥 Ponyboy sees the kids trapped in the burning building.

Analysis - He didnt want to see the lives of innocent little kids to be taken. If the kids did die, it would scar him for life.

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🔪 Ponyboy realizes that Johnny stabs a Soc.

Analysis - Ponyboy would never think that his best friend would kill somebody, so he was shocked when Johnny stabbed Bob.

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🖐 Darry slaps Ponyboy.

Analysis - Ponyboy thought that his brothers would look out for him and care for him. When he got slapped, he thought that even his own brothers didn't love him.

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😢Pony boy's Mom and dad dies.

Analysis - Ponyboys Mom and Dad were his mentors, role models, and he loved them. So when they died, he lost that hope that he could live a normal life like everyone else.

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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about Loss of Innocence and reveals that staying a kid forever isn't a choice and everyone must face reality.