Character
Who said this?
“If you don’t have anything, you end up like Dallas…and I don’t mean dead either. I mean like he was before. And that’s worse than dead."
Soda
After Sodapop runs out of the house, Darry and Ponyboy catch up to him, and he explains to his brothers that he cannot take their constant fighting. Soda tells his brothers that they are all they have left and must get along.
Why didn't Cherry and Marcia have a ride at the drive-in theater?
Where does the following quote appear in the novel? "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..."
Both the beginning and the end of the novel.
I stood there like a bump on a log.
Simile
Paul Newman
Allusion
He is high on life, no drinking necessary.
Who is Two-Bit?
How is this conflict SUPPOSED to be resolved?
Soc vs. greaser
When the greasers win the rumble
It's not money, it's feeling -- you don't feel anything and we feel too violently."
How Cherry believes Socs and greasers are different.
hyperbole
"...if that old church caught fire..."
foreshadowing
Who said this?
“Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it’s the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs."
Who is Randy?
The decade that The Outsiders takes place.
What is the 1950s?
She's probably come to tell me about all the trouble I've caused her.
Johnny talking about his mom's thoughts when she comes to visit him in the hospital.
He was the gang's pet.
a. imagery
b. personification
c. metaphor
C. Metaphor
Darry is six-feet-two, and broad-shouldered and muscular. He has dark-brown...
Imagery
How are Tim Shepard and the Brumly Boys different from Pony and his gang?
Tim Shepard and the Brumly Boys were going to be hoods all their lives. They had a leader and were well organized. Pony and his gang were their own person/leader.
Get to know someone before you judge them.
What is a theme of The Outsiders?
What did Ponyboy mean when he told Randy," Greaser didn't have anything to do with it...it's the individual."
You can't tell everything about a person based by a group he or she is part of.
I could taste the blood running through my teeth.
Personification
Which of these is an example of situatlonal irony?
a. "Darry isn't ever sorry for anything."
b. "I thought maybe it was money that separated us."
c. We were careful with our cigarettes-if that church ever caught fire, there'd be no stopping it."
The answer is C.
Situational irony takes place when the opposite of what is expected actually happens. Situational irony allows writers to show the characters' intentions versus the outcomes, appearance versus reality.
Serious, determined with no college degree
Who is Darry Curtis?
Why didn't Dally want Johnny to turn himself in?
Dally didn't want Johnny to end up hardened like him.
Tough and tuff are two different words. What does tuff mean?
Cool and sharp
I started buttoning up the shirt. It about swallowed me.
Personification
Which is an example of dramatic irony
A. When Bob was killed.
B. Dally waving his unloaded gun and then getting shot and killed.
C. Cherry and Marcia talking to Pony.
The answer is B.
Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
When Dally was caught stealing, and he waved his unloaded gun at the cops. The reader knew it wasn't loaded but the cops in the book didn't know that, and they ended up shooting and killing Dally, “ I been carryin' a heater. It ain't loaded, but it sure does held a bluff...