Setting
This is the setting (where AND when) the majority of the story takes place.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s?
This character cuts and dyes Ponyboy's hair.
Who is Johnny?
"Oh, Pony, I thought we'd lost you ... like we did Mom and Dad" (Hinton 98).
Who is Darry?
“I really couldn’t see what Socs would have to sweat about – good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs – Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I’d consider myself lucky. I know better now” (Hinton 36).
What is foreshadowing?
This is the author of the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
Who is Robert Frost?
This is where Ponyboy meets Cherry.
What is the Nightly Double drive-in?
This is how Dally avoided a speeding ticket on the way to the hospital.
"I never noticed colors and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them. It seems like they were never there before" (Hinton 78).
Who is Johnny?
“He was as white as a ghost and his eyes were wild-looking, like the eyes of an animal in a trap” (Hinton 54).
What is a simile?
This was the name of Sodapop's horse.
What is Mickey Mouse?
This is the restaurant where Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally get food while catching up.
Where is Dairy Queen?
Two-Bit gives this item to Dally.
What is his switchblade?
"I just don't want you to get hurt. You don't know what a few months in jail can do to you. Oh, blast it, Johnny ... you get hardened in jail. I don't want that to happen to you. Like it did to me ..." (Hinton 90).
Who is Dally?
“Johnny just looked dead. Like a candle with the flame gone” (Hinton 149).
What is a simile?
This is the famous actor Ponyboy compares himself to at the beginning of the book.
Who is Paul Newman?
This is the town with the abandoned church where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out.
What is Windrixville?
These two characters officially start the rumble.
Who are Darry and Paul?
"We're all we've got left. We ought to be able to stick together against everything. If we don't have each other, we don't have anything" (Hinton 176).
Who is Sodapop?
“It was the same kind of helplessness I’d felt that night Darry yelled at me for going to sleep in the lot. I had the same deathly fear that something was going to happen that none of us could stop” (Hinton 126-127).
What is foreshadowing?
This is the title of the book Johnny and Ponyboy read while hiding out in the church.
What is Gone With the Wind?
This is where Sodapop and Steve work.
What is the DX Gas Station?
These characters die over the course of the book.
Who are Bob, Johnny, and Dally?
"Ponyboy, listen, don't get tough. You're not like the rest of us and don't try to be ..." (Hinton 171).
Who is Two-Bit?
“The rest of us waited with mounting tension. I was reminded of Jack London’s books – you know, where the wolf pack waits in silence for one or two members to go down in a fight. But it was different here. The moment either one swung a punch, the rumble would be on” (Hinton 143).
What is an allusion?
Cherry Valance drives this car.
What is a red Corvette stingray?