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We have meticulously scoured the web to track down all of the free book notes, study guides, book summaries, chapter summaries, and analyses available for thousands of books, plays, and poems. To read a text contrapuntally is to read it with a simultaneous awareness both of the metropolitan history that is narrated and of those other histories against which and together with which the dominating. Hinton tells the story of 14yearold ponyboy curtis and his struggle with right and wrong in a society in which he is. For the sake of clarity, this timeline rearranges the books episodes in the order in which they occurred, rather than the order in which they appear in into the wild.
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