The Outsiders #1
This character comes from an abusive/neglectful home
Johnny Cade
From what point-of-view is the story told, and who is the narrator?
First person; Ponyboy
The genre of The Outsiders is
Realistic fiction
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
Name 2 conflicts that are running through the novel.
Character Vs. Character: Pony's relationship with Darry
Character vs. Society Greaser vs. Soc
Pony's internal conflict (identity)
Who is the protagonist of the story?
Ponyboy
This is what Cherry tells Ponyboy the difference between Socs and Greasers is...
Greasers are too emotional; Socs are too cold to feel anything.
When Pony and Johnny are in the church rescuing the kids, what surprises Ponyboy about Johnny?
Johnny looks happier than Pony has ever seen him. His eyes didn't have their usual defeated, suspicious look.
What had Johnny said when he described being attacked by the four Socs?
They pulled up in a blue Mustang, and one wore a lot of rings.
This is the book that Pony and Johnny read while hiding out
Gone With the Wind
“Dally handed me a shirt about sixty-million sizes too big.”
This quote is an example of
hyperbole
What did Pony decide to write his school composition on, and how did it start? Give the exact quote-
He decided to write about how the conflict between Soc. vs. Greaser led to the deaths of his friends.
"WHEN I STEPPED OUT into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."
"And Johnny, who was the most law-abiding of us, now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade. He’d use it, too, if he ever got jumped again. They had scared him that much. He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body...” This literary device is called...
This quote is an example of...
Foreshadowing
What did Randy tell Ponyboy as they sat in the Mustang?
He was sick of the fighting and wasn't going to show up at the rumble.
These are the two major groups in conflict in the book
Socs and the greasers
This is what gallant means, and a character who was described as being gallant
Heroic gentleman; Dally
“It [Buck’s shirt] about swallowed me.”
This quote is an example of
personification
How did 2-Bit get his switchblade?
Shoplifted it
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are these
"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold..." Bonus points 200- Why did the author specifically use the 3 dots at the end of the quote?
The author of The Outsiders is this
S.E Hinton
Before the rumble, what did Ponyboy ask the guys in his gang?
Why they liked to fight? bonus points: What were Darry's, Soda's, Steve's,and Two-Bit's answers. Name at least 2 for 100 bonus points.
This is where Sodapop works
The local gas station (The DX)?
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
Where is allusion in this poem?
So Eden sank to grief
Before she left with Bob and Randy, what did Cherry say that shocked Ponyboy?
She could fall in love with Dally.
Dally gives Ponyboy this, which ends up saving him later when he's in a fire.
Leather jacket
Ponyboy worried that when he'd been delirious, he had _________________.
asked for Soda, but not Darry. For 50 bonus points, why did that concern him?
At the beginning of the story, Pony is jumped by the Socs. They ask him...
"Need a haircut, Greaser?"
This is what the boys understand "nothing gold can stay" to mean
Nothing precious lasts forever - that all good things must come to an end
All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds. The sky was lighter in the east, and the horizon was a thin golden line. The clouds changed from gray to pink, and the mist was touched with gold. There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose.” The literary device being used is ...
Imagery