Author Information (Frost and Hinton)
S.E. Hinton's real name.
What is Susan Eloise Hinton?
The kind of conflict found in whether or not Pony and Johnny will hide out from the police (write out the full word).
What is external conflict?
The car that Johnny was afraid of.
What is a blue mustang?
Explain the lesson of "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
What is {some version of a somber treatise on how fleeting life is}?
The full setting of The Outsiders.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s?
What S.E. Hinton based the gangs of the novel off of.
What are real gangs from her high school?
The inciting incident of The Outsiders.
What is Johnny murdering Bob?
What Ponyboy and the other greasers thought his best feature was.
What is his hair?
Explain how S.E. Hinton uses eye color as a metaphor and one character that applies to.
What is {eye color standing in for someone's true self}? On your test you'll need to rope in 2 characters.
What S.E. Hinton assumed people would think about her name by not putting the full thing.
What is that she was a man?
The name S.E. Hinton was given in response to The Outsiders' success.
What is "The Voice of the Youth"?
The style of narration (person and type) that the book is written in.
What is first person limited narration?
Where Johnny hid his last note to Pony.
What is inside his copy of Gone with the Wind?
Explain if S.E. Hinton created realistic characters and why you think so.
What is your deep thought?
The name of the actor that Ponyboy thought about when he left the movie house.
Who is Paul Newman?
The president for whom Robert Frost read a poem at his inauguration.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The literary term present when the reader learns that Dally's gun is unloaded (and therefore isn't surprised when he doesn't shoot any police with it at the end of the book).
What is Chekov's Gun?
The first person (in the timeline of the novel) to be jumped by Socs.
Who is Johnny?
Draw and label a plot map with terms and plot beats from the story.
What is a weird shape with lots of little words on it?
The term of a novel that is made up of letters/written accounts of stories within the world of the novel.
What is an epistolary novel?
Robert Frost's epitaph.
What is that he "had a lover's quarrel with the world?"
The biblical allusion found in "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
What is the Garden of Eden?
The only greaser with a positive parental figure who is still alive.
Who is Two-Bit?
{The real answer is...Tim Shephard lol jk}?
Write out the entirety of "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
What is:
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay ?