The Outsiders #1
This character comes from an abusive/neglectful home
Who is Johnny Cade
This character is the narrator of the story
Who is Ponyboy Curtis
Two character traits you could use to describe Ponyboy are
What are: Kind, Loyal, Smart, Sensitive, Brave, Perceptive, Naive
Why Johnny and Ponyboy go into the fire
They wanted to rescue the children.
This is what causes the Socs to attack the boys at the park
Pony and Johnny were with Cherry and Marcia
This is the name of the mountain where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out
What is Jay Mountain
This is what Cherry tells Ponyboy about the Socs that he has a hard time believing
What is: that despite their social class, the Socs have it rough too. Cherry states "things are rough all over."
The biggest cause of Johnny's pain in life
feeling unwanted and unloved by parents
or being jumped by the Socs for no reason
The youngest member of the greasers is
Ponyboy
The book that Pony and Johnny read while hiding out
Gone With the Wind
This happened to Ponyboy's parents
What is: they died in a car crash.
What Cherry and Ponyboy say is the real difference between the Socs and Greasers
What is that Socs don't feel anything, and greasers feel too much
The names of Ponyboy's brothers are
What are Darry and Sodapop
The major conflict in this story is
Socs vs. greasers
What gallant means, and which character was described as being gallant
A heroic gentleman; Dally
The point-of-view The Outsiders is written in
What is first-person point of view
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are
What is: "Stay gold, Ponyboy."
The author of The Outsiders is
S.E Hinton
The name of the town Johnny and Ponyboy run away to
Windrixville
Where Sodapop works
The local gas station (The DX)
Warfare between the Socs and greasers is going on because of this
What is Social Class (those with power & money and those without)
Also acceptable: What is the Socs are jerks. Plain and simple.
Dally gives Ponyboy this, which ends up saving him.
What is his leather jacket
Cherry's last name
Valance
What happened to Soda's girlfriend Sandy
she moved to Florida to live with her grandparents while she had a baby
What does "nothing gold can stay" mean?
It means that nothing precious lasts forever - that all good things must come to an end.