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Chapter 2

incredulous pg 24

vaguely p 33

nonchalantly p25

fuzz

weed

chessy cat

mugging

Chapter 3

aloof p38

impersonally p38

ornery p39

resignedly p44

Chapter 4

ruefully p60

hermit p60

premonition p 67

HEREOS

What is a hero?

Do you consider any of the characters from The Outsiders to be hereos? If so, who and gives examples of when they are heroic.

Nothing Gold can stay

This poem is in The Outsiders, Johnny reads it at the church. You need to comment on this poem, discuss the content, poetic techniques; such as rhyme,alliteration, personal narrative and metaphors and discuss why the poem is so important to Johnny and then Ponyboy.

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.

by Robert Frost

Quiz!

Answer these m/c questions in your books!

1. Who is the second-youngest member of the greasers?

(A) Johnny

(B) Two-Bit

(C) Steve

(D) Sodapop

2. In which town is the abandoned church where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out located?

(A) Tonkawa

(B) Guthrie

(C) Windrixville

(D) Bartlesville

3. In which sport does Ponyboy participate?

(A) Football

(B) Track

(C) Wrestling

(D) Gymnastics

4. What is the name of Sodapop’s horse?

(A) Daniel

(B) Captain Steve

(C) Lightning

(D) Mickey Mouse

5. What does Ponyboy say is visible on both the East Side and the West Side?

(A) Sunsets

(B) Rainbows

(C) Sunrises

(D) The moon

6. What book do Johnny and Ponyboy read in the church?

(A) How the West Was Won

(B) Rumble Fish

(C) Gone with the Wind

(D) Great Expectations

7. Who kills Dally?

(A) Darry

(B) The police

(C) Bob and Randy

(D) A drunk driver

8. How does Darry know Paul Holden, his first opponent at the rumble?

(A) They played football together in high school.

(B) Paul jumped Darry once.

(C) Paul brought his car to the garage where Darry works.

(D) Darry dated Paul’s sister.

9. Who is Randy?

(A) A greaser from an enemy gang

(B) A Soc who refuses to fight in the rumble

(C) One of Ponyboy’s high school teachers

(D) None of the above

10. Why does Sodapop’s girlfriend Sandy move to Florida?

(A) To go to college

(B) Because her parents are moving

(C) Because she is wanted by the police

(D) Because she is pregnant

11. Who is the father of Sandy’s baby?

(A) It is not revealed.

(B) Sodapop

(C) Paul Holden

(D) Mr. Syme

12. With what does Ponyboy threaten the Socs who approach him outside of the convenience store?

(A) A switch-blade

(B) A gun

(C) A broken pop bottle

(D) An arrest warrant

13. How does Ponyboy get a concussion?

(A) A roof beam falls on him during the fire.

(B) A Soc hits him with a lead pipe.

(C) He is kicked in the head during the rumble.

(D) He falls down a staircase in the fire.

14. Which character dies first?

(A) Johnny

(B) Bob

(C) Dally

(D) Nobody dies

15. Who is Randy’s girlfriend?

(A) Cherry

(B) Sandy

(C) Julia

(D) Marcia

16. Which character has movie-star good looks?

(A) Sodapop

(B) Two-Bit

(C) Darry

(D) Cherry

17. What is Two-Bit’s most prized possession?

(A) His 1920 silver dollar

(B) His silver-plated .45

(C) His black-handled switchblade

(D) His mother’s locket

18. How old is Darry?

(A) Twenty-three

(B) Twenty

(C) Nineteen

(D) Eighteen

19. Why are Cherry and Marcia alone at the drive-in?

(A) Their boyfriends left because they did not like the movies that were playing.

(B) Their boyfriends walked off with two other girls from their high school.

(C) The girls decided to go out by themselves that day.

(D) The girls walked away from their boyfriends when they found out their boyfriends had booze.

20. When did Ponyboy’s recurring nightmares begin?

(A) The night of his parents’ funeral

(B) The night Johnny killed Bob

(C) The night he found out Sodapop was dropping out of school

(D) The night he met Cherry Valance

21. What kind of car does Cherry drive?

(A) A Mustang

(B) A Corvette

(C) A Volkswagon

(D) A Ferrari

22. Who bleaches Ponyboy’s hair?

(A) Sodapop

(B) Marcia

(C) Johnny

(D) Dally

23. How did the Curtis brothers’ parents die?

(A) In a car accident

(B) In a roller-coaster accident

(C) In a boating accident

(D) In a horse-riding accident

24. What is Ponyboy’s real name?

(A) Frederick

(B) Walter

(C) Jason

(D) Ponyboy

25. Where did Dally live right before moving to Ponyboy’s town?

(A) New Orleans

(B) Dallas

(C) New York

(D) Tuscaloosa

Answer in your books!

What you should know!

full title · The Outsiders

author · S. E Hinton

time and place written · 1960s, Tulsa, Oklahoma

narrator · Ponyboy Curtis

point of view · Ponyboy gives a first-person, subjective account of events, explaining how we should interpret events and people in the story.

tone · Youthful; melodramatic; slangy; simplistic

tense · Past

setting (time) · Mid-1960s

setting (place) · Tulsa, Oklahoma

protagonist · Ponyboy

major conflict · Against the background of the clash between the poor greasers and the rich Socs, the greaser Ponyboy struggles to mature.

rising action · Johnny kills a Soc; Johnny and Ponyboy flee; tension mounts between the greasers and Socs.

climax · Johnny’s death, in Chapter 9.

falling action · The greasers win the rumble; Dally dies; Ponyboy recovers from his emotional and physical trauma.

themes · Bridging the gap between rich and poor; honor among the lawless; the treacherousness of male-female interactions

symbols · Two-Bit’s switchblade; cars; Bob’s rings; greaser hair

foreshadowing · The Socs jump Ponyboy while he walks home alone, previewing their later attack on him and Johnny; Johnny threatens to kill anybody who jumps him again, foreshadowing his murder of Bob.

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