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 person
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
Who is the protagonist of the story?
Ponyboy
This is what Cherry tells Ponyboy about the Socs that he has a hard time believing
Cherry states "things are rough all over."
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.
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
“Dally handed me a shirt about sixty-million sizes too big.”
This quote is an example of
hyperbole
This is what happened to Ponyboy's parents
Passed away in a car crash
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 quote is an example of...
Foreshadowing
These are the names of Ponyboy's brothers
Darry and Sodapop
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"
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
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
S. E. Hinton devotes most of chapter one to
Character development
Dally gives Ponyboy this, which ends up saving him later when he's in a fire.
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
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.”
Imagery