Ponyboy likes to go to the movies. Imagine you are Pony and you are going to make this stoy into a movie. One of the first things you need to do is get to know the setting of the story. The purpose of this activity is to investigate and help you understand the world thet Hinton was writing about. Using this as a guide, you wil explore life in the United States during the late '50's and early '60's and then relate it to S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders KEYWORDS: american history, culture, literary analysis, Hinton, fifties, sixties