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Chapter 5 is one of the few chapters in which the narrator pays attention to food. What do the boys eat? What does this tell readers about the time and place of the story?

Story: The outsiders

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I might be wrong but I know they got salmonella. It shows that at the time they were in need of food and that the place they were in was poor.

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The boys eat raw salmonella and get sick. This tells the readers they don't have much to eat
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