Hello From the Outsiders
This event kicks off the major conflict between the Greasers and the Socs.
What is the fight in the park where Bob is killed?
The correct possessive form for a book belonging to one girl
What is the girl's book?
This element refers to the time and place where the story happens.
What is the setting?
He is the sensitive, poetry-loving protagonist.
Who is Ponyboy Curtis?
The main conflict between two social groups in the novel
What is Greasers vs. Socs or character vs. character?
The place where Ponyboy and Johnny hide after the incident in the park.
What is the abandoned church in Windrixville?
The correct possessive form for backpacks belonging to several children.
What is the children's backpacks?
The people, animals, or beings that take part in the action of a story
What are characters?
He is tough and angry but cares deeply for Johnny.
Who is Dallas?
Ponyboy’s struggle to fit in and understand himself.
What is character vs. self?
The outcome of the church fire for Johnny
What is Johnny being severely injured?
The correct possessive form for a hat belonging to one man
What is the man's hat?
The sequence of related events that make up the story
What is the plot?
This character is a Soc who tries to bridge the gap between the groups.
Who is Cherry Valance?
The point of view from which the story is told
What is first-person (Ponyboy’s perspective)?
The reason the Greasers and Socs have a final fight
What is to settle their rivalry once and for all?
The correct possessive form for bicycles belonging to several boys
What is the boys' bicycles?
The central idea or message the author wants to convey
What is theme?
The wise fatherly figure to the Curtis brothers.
Who is Darry Curtis?
The societal expectations and class tensions faced by the characters
What is character vs. society?
The way Ponyboy tries to process his experiences at the end of the novel
What is by writing his story for an English assignment?
The correct possessive form for lunches belonging to several women
What is the women's lunches?
The way the story is told, including who is narrating
What is point of view?
The youngest Greaser, who looks up to the others and struggles with a rough home life.
Who is Johnny Cade?
The correct possessive form for the friendship shared by Ponyboy and Johnny in The Outsiders.
What is Ponyboy and Johnny’s friendship?