Characterization
This character is considered to be the Greasers' pet.
What is Johnny?
This is Ponyboy's worst fear after he returns home from the hospital.
What is he will be removed from his home and separated from his brothers.
This is the setting of the story.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960s?
This is what is going on with Ponyboy when he says, "Johnny didn't have anything to do with Bob's getting killed..."?
What is he doesn't want Johnny's memory tarnished by Bob's murder?
The reporters stared at him admiringly; I told you he looks like a movie star, and he kind of RADIATES.
What is sparkles?
This character is called "superman" or "muscles".
What is Darry?
This is the reason that Dally didn't want Johnny to turn himself in to the police.
This is the point of view of the novel.
What is First Person?
This is the idea behind Ponyboy's words when he says, “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.”
What is loyalty?
It was too VAST a problem to be just a personal thing.
What is great or massive?
Of all the Greasers, this is the one that Ponyboy dislikes the most.
What is Steve?
This is the reason why Cherry says she’ll help the Greasers after Bob’s death.
What is she feels somewhat responsible for happened.
This is the tone of the novel.
What is realistic, hopeful, sad, and inspirational?
This is what is really meant behind the quote, “Steve Randle could lift a hubcap quicker and more quietly than anyone in the neighborhood, but he also knew cars upside-down and backward, and he could drive anything on wheels.”
What is Steve knows everything about cars, and could steal a hubcap better than anyone?
We mostly stuck with our own outfits, so I was a little LEERY of going over to him, but I shrugged.
What is suspicious or mindful?
This character is an honor student who runs track.
What is Ponyboy?
This is the theme that Ponyboy finally writes for his English teacher.
What is don’t be so quick to judge others.
This is the title of the poem that Ponyboy recites to Johnny.
What is Nothing Gold Can Stay?
This is what Ponyboy means when he says, “No rival gangs, only Socs. And you can't win against them no matter how hard you try, because they've got all the breaks and even whipping them isn't going to change that fact.”
What is socioeconomic status is the deciding factor in every situation?
It was the reward of two hours of walking aimlessly around a hardware store to DIVERT suspicion.
What is distract?
This is the Greaser that Johnny worships as a hero.
What is Dally?
This is what motivated Johnny to stab Bob.
What is the Socs were going to beat up Johnny again, while one of them was drowning Ponyboy.
This is the problem that Randy claims most Socs have in their families.
What is lack of consequences?
This is the inference behind Ponyboy's words when he says, “I half convinced myself that I had dreamed everything that had happened the night before. I'm really home in bed, I thought.”
What is Ponyboy uses his imagination to create alternate realities?
Tim grinned RUEFULLY, probably thinking of his roughneck, hard-headed brother.
What is sorrowfully?