Characters
This group of teenagers are more emotional, almost to a fault.
Who are The Outsiders.
The chapter began here, as the night's activities were ending.
What is the Drive-in.
They both look at sunsets.
Who are Ponyboy and Cherry.
"Rat Race is a perfect name for it."
What is an Allusion.
This drives the protagonist to speak with Cherry.
What is curiosity of Soc. girls.
This group of teenagers are seen as artificial.
Who are the Soc.'s.
What is a blue Mustang.
"...if I see you in the hall at school or someplace and don't say hi, well, it's not personal or anything, but..."
What is an explanation of Soc. societal rules of interaction. (They stick with their own)
"That horse loved Soda."
What is personification.
This is the protagonist of the story.
Who is Ponyboy Curtis.
This character is ready for action and doesn't flinch when danger comes about.
Who is Two-Bit. (He laughs in the face of danger)
This neutralizing event happened to ward off physical aggression by the Soc.'s boys.
What is Two-bit breaking a bottle and talking out his switch-blade.
Who are the Greasers.
"Who is it?" Two-bit asked. "The F.B.I."?
What is a metaphor.
In telling Cherry his dislike for Darry, the protagonist reveal what?
What is a warped perspective of his older brother and his feelings.
This character has a horrible home life and prefers a beating to verbal abuse.
Who is Johnny Cade.
These events draw Two-bit away for the evening.
What is playing snooker and/or poker, even get rip-roaring drunk.
This group carries a constant strain of stress, due to the expectation pressed upon them.
Who are the Soc.'s.
"He's hard s a rock and about as human."
What is a simile.
" I couldn't use this", I said, dropping the pop bottle. " I couldn't ever cut anyone...".
What is the protagonist's innocence to violence, his purity and humanity.
Secretly he wept when something near to him was taken away at only age twelve.
Who is Soda. (Mickey Mouse the horse was sold)
This is the location of the end of the chapter, a place for Ponyboy to cool off.
What is the local park.
This character has to fake their liking of something just to fit in with the group's expectations. (Groupthink!)
Who is Cherry.
" We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too."
This was the purpose of the dream the protagonist had involving all of his friends and brothers.
What is a way to save everyone from their own threat of destruction.