Plot Details Part 1
What happened to Johnny before the opening of the story to shape the events that occur later?
Hint: We see clues of this in Chapters 3-4)
Johnny was beaten badly by the Socs – to the point that it changed him drastically.
Choose the quote from the story that answers the following question: Why does Johnny say that he almost likes it better when his old man is hitting him?
A) " I've never seen you bawl like that."
B) ..."sometimes we get along okay..."
C) "At least then I know he knows who I am."
D) "At least you got Soda."
C) "At least then I know he knows who I am."
Ponyboy says that Darry would probably be very upset and beat Dally if Dally told him about what happened to Ponyboy and Johnny, and that he helped them. What could be a reason for this?
Darry would think that Dally was a bad influence.
“He was tougher than the rest of us – tougher, colder, meaner. The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn’t present.”
Dally/Dallas Winston
“‘I don’t want to die now. It ain’t long enough. Sixteen years ain’t long enough. I wouldn’t mind it so much if there wasn’t so much stuff I ain’t done yet and so many things I ain’t seen.’”
Johnny/Johnnycake/Johnny Cade
What makes Pony finally realize these are the same Socs that beat up Johnny last time?
the blue Mustang and the rings on Bob's hands
At the end of chapter 3, Ponyboy says the following:
“Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn’t get worse. I was wrong.”
Of what literary device is this passage an example?
foreshadowing
Which of these is an example of irony from the novel?
A) The fact that Pony and Johnny are hiding out in a church.
B) The notion that quiet, gentle Johnny is now a killer.
C) Cherry’s statement, "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston."
D) All of the above.
D) All of the above.
“‘I’m sick of all this. Sick and tired. Bob was a good guy. He was the best buddy a guy ever had. I mean, he was a good fighter and tuff and everything, but he was a real person. You dig?’”
Randy
“He’s dead – his mother has had a nervous breakdown. They spoiled him rotten. I mean, most parents would be proud of a kid like that – good-lookin’ and smart and everything, but they gave into him all the time.”
Bob
Choose the quote from the story that answers the following question: Why does Cherry leave with Bob and the other Socs?
A) "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston."
B) "We couldn't let our parents see us with you all."
C) "...if I see you...and don't say hi..."
D) "I can't stand fights."
D) "I can't stand fights."
Why is it that we (the reader) do not see Johnny stab Bob the Soc?
Since Ponyboy is a 1st person narrator, he didn’t see it happen because he was unconscious.
Which of the following characters does not seem to regret the warfare between the Greasers and the Socs?
A) Ponyboy
B) Johnny
C) Dallas
D) Randy
C) Dallas
“He had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes, and that beating he got from the Socs didn’t help matters. He was the gang’s pet, everyone’s kid brother.”
Johnny/Johnnycake/Johnny Cade
“I never could please him. He would have hollered at me for carrying a blade if I had carried one. If I brought home B’s, he wanted A’s, and if I got A’s he wanted to make sure they stayed A’s.”
Darry
What is the implied meaning behind the following quote?
"Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too" (Hinton 46).
Ponyboy is suggesting to Cherry that even though the two groups have unequal lifestyles, attitudes, and financial situations, they nevertheless live in the same world, beneath the same sun.
An event from the novel that illustrates the thematic topic of heroism is . . .
the church fire
Name some thematic topics discussed within the novel
importance of family, growing up, the negative effects of violence
“Boy, she was good-looking. I’d seen her before; she was a cheerleader at our school. I’d always thought she was stuck-up.”
Cherry Valence
“I wondered for a long time how to start that theme, how to start writing about something that was important to me.”
Ponyboy/Pony/Ponyboy Curtis
Why does Darry say that he is hesitant to call the police when Ponyboy is gone for so long?
How did the Socs react when Johnny stabbed Bob?
They ran.
Why did Pony stop going to church?
Two-Bit, Soda, and Steve embarrassed him the one time they all attended together.
"‘Oh, Pony, I thought we'd lost you like we did Mom and Dad.’"
Darry
“His eyes are dark brown – lively, dancing, recklessly laughing eyes that can be gentle and sympathetic one moment and blazing with anger the next. He has Dad’s eyes…He gets drunk on just plain living. And he understands everybody.”
Soda/Sodapop