Ponyboy
This character comes from an abusive/neglectful home.
Johnny Cade.
S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is narrated from this perspective or point-of-view.
First person point-of-view.
What is the literary genre of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders?
Realistic fiction.
This is why Johnny and Ponyboy go into the fire.
They both wanted to save the children from a fire they believed they started.
This is what causes the Socs to attack the boys at the park, ultimately leading to Bob's death.
Pony and Johnny were with Cherry and Marcia and their boyfriends (Bob and Randy) and they were jealous.
Name two conflicts that are running through the novel.
Pony's relationship with Darry.
Greasers versus the Socs.
Ponyboy struggling internally with his identity.
DiSantis is open to other answers...
Who is the protagonist and narrator of the story?
Ponyboy Curtis.
At the drive-in movies, this is what Cherry tells Ponyboy about the Socs that he has a hard time believing...until later on in the plot.
QUOTE MUST BE WRITTEN AND CITED CORRECTLY IN MLA FORMAT!
"Things are rough all over," (Hinton, page 35).
"Things are rough all over," (Hinton, 35).
"Things are rough all over," (Hinton page 35).
"Things are rough all over," (Hinton 35).
When Pony and Johnny are in the church rescuing the kids, what surprises Ponyboy about Johnny?
Johnny looks happier than Ponyboy has ever seen him.
This is the youngest member of the greasers.
Ponyboy Curtis.
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 what type of figurative language?
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...” (Hinton, 34).
This quote is an example of which literary device?
Foreshadowing.
What are the names of Ponyboy's brothers? (Last name included!)
Darry and Sodapop Curtis.
These are the two major groups in conflict in the novel.
The Socs and the Greasers.
This is what gallant means, and a character who was described as being gallant by Johnny.
Heroic, a gentleman couragous; Dally...Johnny's hero.
“It [Buck’s shirt] about swallowed me.”
This quote is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification.
What is Two-Bit's most prized possession and how did he acquire it?
His black-handled switchblade and he shoplifted it.
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are an allusion to what?
The poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost, which Ponyboy recited to Johnny at the church watching the sunrise.
The author of The Outsiders is...
S.E. Hinton a.k.a. Susan Eloise Hinton.
Where does Dally tell Johnny and Ponyboy to run away to and hide out?
Windrixville, in a church, on top of Jay Mountain.
This is where Sodapop works with his best friend Steve.
The local DX gas station.
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.
What is the theme of the poem?
Nothing good 'golden' will last forever or for very long...but answers may vary.
In chapter one of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton uses this process to indirectly and directly reveal the main characters' personalities.
Characterization.
S.E. in the author's name stands for what?
Susan Eloise.
What is Cherry's full name?
Sherri Valance. Cherry is her nickname, because of her red hair.
This is what happened to Soda's girlfriend Sandy.
She moved to Florida to live with her grandparents.
What did Johnny think the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" meant?
Answers will vary; DiSantis RULES.
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.
What is being personified in the first lines of the poem?
Mother nature.