Vocabulary
A young person who gets has trouble with the law.
What is a juvenile delinquent?
He plays Johnny in the film.
Who is Ralph Macchio?
He played Dallas Winston in the movie.
Who is Matt Dillon?
The initial setting is established in this line, the first line in the book... which also happens to be the last line (get as close as you can).
What is "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house..."?
S.E. Hinton's age when she wrote the bulk of The Outsiders.
What is 16?
Ponyboy is acquitted during the trial at the end of the novel. "Acquitted" means...
What is found not guilty?
She plays Cherry Valance.
Who is Diane Lane?
He played Ponyboy.
Who is C. Thomas Howell?
The part of the city the greasers are from AND the part of the city the Socs are from.
What is the east side (greasers) and the west side (Socs)?
Johnny and Ponyboy discuss a poem while they're hiding out. This is the name of the poem's author.
What is Robert Frost? (The poem was Nothing Gold Can Stay)
The definition of the word "liable."
What is legally responsible?
He played Sodapop.
Who is Rob Lowe?
He played Darry in the movie.
Who is Patrick Swayze?
The church in which Ponyboy and Johnny hide out after the stabbing was located on this mountain in this town.
What is Jay Mountain in Windrixville.
Ponyboy and Johnny enjoy reading Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. What war is depicted in that book?
What is The American Civil War?
The definition of bewildered.
What is perplexed or confused?
Refuses to fight in the final rumble.
Who is Randy?
Darry's friend from high school who is now a Soc. They played football together.
Who is Paul Holden?
The decade in which the novel is set.
What is the 1960s?
Darry's back often hurt because of his tendency to do this while at work.
What is carrying 2 bundles of roofing shingles up a ladder at once?
The definition of the word conformity.
What is "behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards."
Played chicken with Ponyboy using cigarettes.
Who is Curly Shepard?
Played by Lief Garrett.
Who is Bob?
The city and state where most of the story takes place.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
In order to hide his sorrow over the loss of his friends, Johnny and Dally, Two-Bit pretends he's angry about this.
What the loss of his switchblade?