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S. E. Hinton's 'Sometimes Life Is Unfair'
S.E Hinton makes the claim : "Sometimes life is unfair". This can be seen when Tim Shepard, one of Dally's buds, came to visit him and was surprised when he saw Dally's name in the newspaper without a bad headline on top of it.As seen on page 105 in the novel "The Outsiders" the character Dally who is a mean, uneducated, poor young man stated,"'Said he saw my picture in the paper and couldn't believe it didn't have 'Wanted Dead or Alive' under it.'"This means that Tim Shepard felt surprised to see that Dally did not do anything wrong, but on the contrary he did something good. This proves the claim S.E Hinton makes " Sometimes Life is Unfair " because since most of the people already know that Dally and the Gang are "bad" people because they
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