Author
S.E. Hinton's Actual Name
What is Susan Eloise Hinton?
The setting of The Outsiders
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s?
Explain how S.E. Hinton uses foreshadowing at the end of chapters and what foreshadowing is
What is saying something would go wrong to make readers keep going?
Explain the lesson of "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
What is something probably depressing?
The Greaser and Soc sides of town
What are east and west?
What S.E. Hinton based The Outsiders on
What are real gangs from her high school?
Who is Johnny?
Explain the idea of Chekov's Gun and list one example
What is something being shown to the audience so they're not surprised about it later and Johnny's knife?
Explain a lesson The Outsiders wants you to learn
What is stuff about disillusionment with the world?
What is learning the novel was written by Pony for English class?
S.E. Hinton's name given to her by critics and how she felt about it
What is "the voice of the youth" and very pressured to the point that she left writing?
Darry's silent fear
What is losing someone he loved?
Explain one example of internal and one example of external conflict in the novel
What are specific things?
Draw and label a plot map with terms and examples
What is a lot of tiny writing?
What was accomplished by killing Johnny and Dally (involving internal and external conflict).
What is something about tragedy as the most innocent and toughest characters died to external and internal conflict respectively?
The reason S.E. Hinton published the book under that version of her name
What is to have male reviewers take her seriously?
The people injured in the fire and who they tried to save
Describe the rhyme scheme and main allusion in "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
What is AABBCCDD and the allusion to Eden?
Explain the eye metaphor and two examples
What is 0–0?
The two things Pony had on his mind in the first line of The Outsiders
What are Paul Newman and a ride home?
The two similarities between Gary Soto and S.E. Hinton
What are writing about childhood and being dissatisfied with the books they had access to?
Explain the main events that cause the book's tragedy.
What are Darry hitting Pony, Pony and Johnny running away, Johnny killing Bob, Johnny and Pony going into hiding, the church burning down, Johnny dying, and Dally dying?
Explain the narration style of The Outsiders
What is first person limited, meaning things are described with first person pronouns and the reader only knows what Pony knows?
Make a S.T.E.A.L. chart for a greaser of your choice.
What is a lot of words?
Explain the qualities that make a hero, which greaser you think is the most gallant, and why as shown in The Outsiders
What is a whole essay?