Characters
Which character loved Mickey Mouse?
Sodapop
What physical trait is very important to Ponyboy?
His hair.
What did we learn about Ponyboy when he said, "I half convinced myself that I had dreamed everything that had happened the night before. I'm really home in bed, I thought."
He loves to dream, pretend, and use his imagination to construct alternative realities. These help him cope with difficult situations, but sometimes also keep him from facing things that he might really need to deal with.
It was the reward of two hours of walking aimlessly around a hardware store to DIVERT suspicion.
Sidetrack, distract, avoid
Then the judge said I was ACQUITTED and the whole case was closed.
Cleared, discharged, free
How did Johnny feel about Dally?
He idolized him.
What is something that Ponyboy and Cherry both appreciate?
Sunsets.
What is implied about Cherry when she says, "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston. […] I hope I never see him again or I will."
Cherry likes dangerous, violent, good-looking guys, regardless of how much money they have.
It was too VAST a problem to be just a personal thing.
Huge, extensive, broad,
"Work?" Two-Bit was AGHAST.
Horrified, shocked, appalled
Of all the Greasers, who did Ponyboy like the least?
Steve
Why did Ponyboy hope Bob’s parents hated him and the other greasers?
He thought it was better to be hated than pitied.
What did Ponyboy mean when he said, “You take up for your buddies no matter what they do. When you're in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't […] it isn't a gang anymore. It's a snarling, distrustful, bickering pack.”
Loyalty is everything.
We mostly stuck with our own outfits, so I was a little LEERY of going over to him, but I shrugged.
Careful, guarded, hesitant, cautious
Soda began sleeping with me, and the nightmare stopped RECURRING so often, but it happened often enough for Darry to take me to a doctor.
Returning, reappearing, repeating
How did the greasers feel about Johnny?
They treated him like the gang's pet; a little brother
Name (4) THEMES in the novel.
Social class, adolescence, loyalty, love, relationships, choices, violence, maturity
What did Ponyboy really think when he said, "Johnny didn't have anything to do with Bob's getting killed..."?
He didn't want people to think of Johnny as a killer.
Tim grinned RUEFULLY, probably thinking of his roughneck, hard-headed brother.
Sorrowfully; regretfully
If the judge decides Darry isn't a good guardian or something, I'm LIABLE to get stuck in a home somewhere.
Apt, inclined, likely
What do you think the Socs really wanted from their parents?
Boundaries, rules, "NO"
We now know that Ponyboy's English assignment was this novel, The Outsiders. What do you think was his message to any reader?
Don't be so quick to judge.
What did Ponyboy really mean when he said, "Things were rough all over, all right. All over the East Side. It just didn't seem right to me."
Poverty presents a unique set of problems that the rich simply can't relate to; it isolates people.
The reporters stared at him admiringly; I told you he looks like a movie star, and he kind of RADIATES.
Lights up, illuminates, shines, beams
I walked down the hall in a daze. Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk home in a STUPOR.
Trance, daze, haze, cloud, oblivion