Similarly one may ask, what is the setting of the outsiders time and place?
An Unnamed City, In An Unnamed State… We know TheOutsiders is set in 1965 because S.E. The setting isbased on Hinton's hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she was livingwhen she wrote the story as a high school student (Source). Again,this is revealed in her FAQ page, not in the text.
Likewise, where did the outsiders movie take place? The film was shot on location in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Coppola filmed The Outsiders and Rumble Fish back-to-back in1982—a newspaper, used to show a story about the threegreasers saving the kids in The Outsiders, includes a realstory from 1982 regarding the death of a man hit by a train inBoston.
Keeping this in consideration, what time period is the outsiders?
The story is told in first-person perspective byteenaged protagonist Ponyboy Curtis. The story in the book takesplace in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is never explicitlystated in the book.
What is the main conflict of the outsiders?
External and Internal ConflictPonyboy is a member of a gang of poor boys known as theGreasers. The group has a conflict, literally andfiguratively, with a well-to-do gang known as the Socs. AfterPonyboy's friend Johnny kills one of the Socs in a fight, the twoskip town.
