The Outsiders theme Flashcards

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About the setting in the outsiders?

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The setting is based on Hinton’s hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma helps make the book for people in other places and times novel’s action takes place over a week one autumn.
Novels starts in city (east+west side) and then moves to country where Johnny and pony boy start to grow closer and learn more about themselves

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Name 3 places the novel set in

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East and west side
City and country
The church

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Quote got to do with the vagueness of the setting

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hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows

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Why was tulsa the setting

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Because that’s where the author s.e Hilton was from

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