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How does S. E. Hinton develop the theme through setting, characters, and plot over the course of the text?

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How does S. E. Hinton develop the theme through setting, characters, and plot over the course of the text?

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S. E. Hinton develops the theme of loss of innocence through setting because the Greasers live on the more shady side of town and it seems like the more unsafe part of town, so more things bad could potentially happen and scar them mentally and/or physically. She develops the theme using characters because the way she describes the characters is that they are tough and look like they have been through a lot in their short lives. She helps develop the theme using plot because there were so many bad things that happened to the Greasers including deaths, having to run away, fights, etc.

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When the police shot Dally and killed him under the streetlight, this is an example of having someone/people losing their innocence because Dally only wanted to go because Johnny had just died and Johnny was the last thing holding him together, so losing to of your best friends in one night and watching it happen and not being able to do anything makes you lose your innocence.

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When Johnny died while Ponyboy and Dally were watching, this makes someone lose their innocence because they saw one of their best friends die and he felt like family to them so it hit them even harder.

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When the Greasers and Soc's were in a rumble. This makes some have a loss of innocence because when you get in a fight you realize that life isn't all safe and some people/places are deep down just cruel. "They could just as easily have been going to the movies as to a rumble." (Page 141)

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When Ponyboy recited the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay", Ponyboy didn't understand what it meant but Johnny realized that it meant nothing pure can be in a person or thing their whole life. "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold, Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." (Page 77)

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Johnny and Ponyboy got a gun from Dally, getting a gun from Dally makes Johnny and Ponyboy lose their innocence because they could be sent to jail or worse for owning/wielding a gun. "He handed us a gun and a roll of bills." (Page 60)

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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about loss of innocence and reveals that people go through rough/hard times in their lives and their mindsets will change from the bad occurrences that happen during their lives and how they cope with them.