Analysis Of S. E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders'

The Outsiders was set in a large, unnamed town in the United States. According to the website (http://www.shmoop.com/the-outsiders/setting.html), the setting of ‘The Outsiders’ was based on the author’s, S. E. Hinton’s, hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, when she wrote the story as a high school student. The story took place in the late 1960’s. The landscape in the story was mostly in the cold, and dark nights. In one scene Ponyboy and Johnny walk through a park. The weather had seemed to be a freezing and windy night. This is where mainly everything went downhill when Johnny had stabbed Bob trying to protect Ponyboy from getting drowned by the nearby water fountain. Johnny didn't mean any harm for Bob’s death. So, Johnny and Ponyboy headed to