The Outsiders #1
This character comes from an abusive/neglectful home
Johnny Cade
This is the point-of-view used to tell the story (first, second, third)
First person
Two character traits you could use to describe Ponyboy are
Kind, Loyal, Smart, Sensitive, Brave, Perceptive, Naive
This is why Johnny and Ponyboy go into the fire
They both wanted to save the children
This is what causes the Socs to attack the boys at the park
Pony and Johnny were with Cherry and Marcia and their boyfriends (Bob and Randy) were jealous
This man was supposedly too big to fit through the window of the church
Jerry Wood
This is the name of the mountain where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out in Windrixville
Jay Mountain
This is what Cherry tells Ponyboy about the Socs that he has a hard time believing
Despite their social class, the Socs have it rough too
Cherry states "things are rough all over."
The biggest cause of Johnny's pain in life
-feeling unwanted and unloved by parents
or
-being jumped by the Socs for no reason
This is the youngest member of the greasers
Ponyboy
This is the book that Pony and Johnny read while hiding out
Gone With the Wind
True or False: S.E. Hinton was a teenager when she wrote The Outsiders?
true
This is what happened to Ponyboy's parents
Passed away in a car crash
What Cherry and Ponyboy say is the real difference between the Socs and Greasers
Socs don't feel anything, and greasers feel too much
These are the names of Ponyboy's brothers
Darry and Sodapop
These are the two major groups in conflict in the book
The Socs and the greasers
This is what gallant means, and a character who was described as being gallant
a heroic gentleman; Dally
This greasers thinks of Ponyboy as a "tagalong"
Steve Randle
This is the protagonist in The Outsiders
Ponyboy
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are this
"Stay gold, Ponyboy"
The author of The Outsiders is this
S.E Hinton
This is the name of the town Johnny and Ponyboy run away to
Windrixville
This is where Sodapop works
at the local gas station (The DX)
This is the name of Darry's former friend who threw the first punch during the rumble.
Paul Holden
At the start of the book, conflict between the Socs and greasers is going on because of this
Social Class (those with power & money and those without)
Also acceptable: The Socs are jerks. Plain and simple.
Dally gives Ponyboy this, which ends up saving him later when he's in a fire.
His leather jacket?
This is Cherry's last name
Valance
This is what happened to Soda's girlfriend Sandy
she moved to Florida to live with her grandparents while she had a baby
This is what the boys understand "nothing gold can stay" to mean
that nothing precious lasts forever - that all good things must come to an end
This is the decade when The Outsiders takes place
the 1960s