Character Traits
This character is described as having long, light-brown red-ish hair with gray green eyes. He loves to read and does well in school.
Who is Ponyboy?
These are the names of all the characters in the Greasers.
Who are Ponyboy, Johnny, Soda, Darry, Two-Bit, Steve, and Dally?
Ponyboy and Darry's altercation that led to Ponyboy running away is an example of this type of conflict.
What is a Man vs. Man conflict?
This person is the author of the story.
Who is S.E. Hinton?
This vocabulary word is defined as "a light cotton fabric in multicolored plaid used for shirts and jackets".
What is madras?
This character is described as "movie-star handsome".
Who is Soda Pop?
This is the name of the Soc girl that throws a coke in Dally's face.
Who is Cherry Valance?
Ponyboy and Johnny's fight against the Socs the night Bob was killed is an example of this type of conflict.
What is a Man vs. Man conflict?
The story is set in this time period and location.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960s?
This vocabulary word is described as "open disregard, or bold resistance towards authority".
What is defiance?
This character is described as the gang's pet.
Who is Johnny?
Dally carries this with him as a bluff because of the conflicts occurring in the text.
What is an unloaded gun?
Ponyboy's inner thoughts about whether or not he should run away is an example of this type of conflict.
What is a Man vs. Self conflict?
Chapter one contributes to the text by developing this part of the plot diagram.
What is the exposition?
This vocabulary word is described as "a thug or a gangster".
What is hoodlum?
This character loves to shoplift, his switchblade, fighting, blondes, and, surprisingly, school.
Who is Two-Bit?
Ponyboy and Johnny escape to this town and specific location when they flee after the murder.
Where is the abandoned church on Jay Mountain in Windrixville?
The Greasers "always getting the tough breaks" is an example of this type of conflict.
What is a Man vs. Society conflict?
In chapter one Ponyboy says "I saw Johnny's cigarette glowing in the dark and wondered vaguely what it was like inside a burning ember..." This is an example of this type of figurative language in the text.
What is foreshadowing?
This vocabulary word is described as "a strong feeling that something is going to happen".
What is premonition?
This character is Soda's girlfriend that he wants to marry when Ponyboy gets out of school.
Who is Sandy?
Johnny craves the love and affection of these people in the text.
Who are his parents?
When Cherry says she could fall in love with Dallas Winston that displays that she has this type of conflict.
What is an internal conflict?
The poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" contains this to add to the text for the reader.
What is imagery?
This vocabulary word is described as "wisely or knowingly".
What is sagely?