Characters
The main character of the story; he wrote the story about the Outsiders.
Who is Ponyboy?
To fight; especially in the street.
What is a rumble?
This person wrote Ponyboy a letter and told him to stop fighting.
Who is Johnny?
In the beginning of the novel, the boys (Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally) met Cherry and her friend at this location.
What is the drive-in movie theater?
The name of the gang of friends that are known for being poor and misbehaving. The have long, greasy hair.
Who are the greasers?
The hero of the story; he died from complications from the fire.
Who is Johnny?
To die by being underwater too long and being unable to breathe.
What is to drown?
This person was starting to fail school because they couldn't concentrate. Their teacher made them write a story for the English assignment.
Who is Ponyboy?
Dally came to Windrixville and took Johnny and Ponyboy to eat here.
Where is Dairy Queen?
The name of the gang of kids from the rich side of town. They have short hair and drive expensive cars.
Who are the Socs?
The person who gave Ponyboy and Johnny money to run away; he also bought them Dairy Queen.
Who is Dally?
A group of people who are friends and who do things together.
What is a gang?
This person killed a Soc because they were afraid that the Soc was going to drown Ponyboy.
Who is Johnny?
This is where Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally tried to save kids from a fire.
What is the church?
These are the names of all three brothers.
Who are Ponyboy, Soda, and Darry?
Ponyboy's brother; the middle brother. He is Ponyboy's friend and tries to keep Ponyboy and Darry from fighting.
Who is Soda?
To feel deep sadness caused especially by someone's death.
What is to grieve?
This person was a girl who was part of the Socs; but she was nice and tried to get everyone to get along.
Who is Cherry?
This is the big fight that happened between the Greasers and the Socs; the Greasers won.
What is the rumble?
This is the number of chapters that were in our book.
What is 10?
The oldest brother; he is responsible for caring for his two younger brothers, Ponyboy and Soda, since both of his parents died.
Who is Darry?
A person who does not belong to or is not accepted as part of a group or organization.
What is an outsider?
Who is Darry?
This is what happened to Johnny at the end of our story.
What is died?
The author of the book, The Outsiders.
S.E. Hinton