The Outsiders #1
This character comes from an abusive/neglectful home
Who is Johnny Cade?
This is the point-of-view used to tell the story (first, second, third)
What is first person?
Two character traits you could use to describe Ponyboy are
What are: Kind, Loyal, Smart, Sensitive, Brave, Perceptive, Naive?
This is why Johnny and Ponyboy go into the fire
What are they both wanted to save the children?
This is what causes the Socs to attack the boys at the park
What are Pony and Johnny were with Cherry and Marcia and their boyfriends (Bob and Randy) were jealous?
This man was supposedly too big to fit through the window of the church
Who is Jerry Wood?
This is the name of the mountain where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out in Windrixville
What is Jay Mountain?
This is what Cherry tells Ponyboy about the Socs that he has a hard time believing
What is the Socs have it rough too?
Cherry states "things are rough all over."
The biggest cause of Johnny's pain in life
What are (either):
-feeling unwanted and unloved by parents
or
-being jumped by the Socs for no reason
This is the youngest member of the greasers
Who is Ponyboy?
This is the book that Pony and Johnny read while hiding out
What is Gone With the Wind?
This is how old S.E. Hinton was a teenager when she began to write this novel.
What is 15?
This is what happened to Ponyboy's parents
What is passed away in a car crash?
What state does The Outsiders take place in?
What is Oklahoma?
These are the names of Ponyboy's brothers
What are Darry and Sodapop?
These are the two major groups in conflict in the book
What are the Socs and the greasers?
This is what gallant means, and a character who was described as being gallant
What is a heroic gentleman; Dally
This greasers thinks of Ponyboy as a "tagalong"
Who is Steve Randle?
This is the main protagonist in The Outsiders
Who is Ponyboy?
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are this
What is "Stay gold, Ponyboy"?
The author of The Outsiders is this
Who is S.E Hinton?
This is the name of the town Johnny and Ponyboy run away to
What is Windrixville?
This is where Sodapop works
What is at the local gas station (The DX)?
What is a name for another book by SE Hinton...a sneak peek at the end of Mrs. L's novel
Who is That Was Then, This Is Now?
At the start of the book, conflict between the Socs and greasers is going on because of this
What is Social Class (those with power & money and those without)
Also acceptable: What is the Socs are jerks. Plain and simple.
Dally gives Ponyboy this, which ends up saving him later when he's in a fire.
What is his leather jacket?
This is Cherry's last name
What is Valance?
This is what happened to Soda's girlfriend Sandy
What is she moved to Florida and didn't love Soda enough to stay?
This is what the boys understand "nothing gold can stay" to mean
What is that nothing precious lasts forever - that all good things must come to an end?
This is the decade when The Outsiders takes place
When was the 1960s?