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socio-economic themes
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When Did *The Outsiders* Take Place? The Untold Timeline of S.E. Hinton’s Classic
Hinton, then just 16 herself, didn’t invent the conflict—she distilled it. The novel’s opening lines, "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the...