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
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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
Monday, August 24, 2009
Quiz!
Answer these m/c questions in your books!
1. Who is the second-youngest member of the greasers?
2. In which town is the abandoned church where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out located?
3. In which sport does Ponyboy participate?
4. What is the name of Sodapop’s horse?
5. What does Ponyboy say is visible on both the East Side and the West Side?
6. What book do Johnny and Ponyboy read in the church?
7. Who kills Dally?
8. How does Darry know Paul Holden, his first opponent at the rumble?
9. Who is Randy?
10. Why does Sodapop’s girlfriend Sandy move to Florida?
11. Who is the father of Sandy’s baby?
12. With what does Ponyboy threaten the Socs who approach him outside of the convenience store?
13. How does Ponyboy get a concussion?
14. Which character dies first?
15. Who is Randy’s girlfriend?
16. Which character has movie-star good looks?
17. What is Two-Bit’s most prized possession?
18. How old is Darry?
19. Why are Cherry and Marcia alone at the drive-in?
20. When did Ponyboy’s recurring nightmares begin?
21. What kind of car does Cherry drive?
22. Who bleaches Ponyboy’s hair?
23. How did the Curtis brothers’ parents die?
24. What is Ponyboy’s real name?
25. Where did Dally live right before moving to Ponyboy’s town?
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.
The author- S.E Hinton and setting of the novel
It's 2009 and Year 9 at St. pats are reading The Outsiders, a novel written in 1967, by a 15 year old! The same age of some of you are now!
Who wrote it and why?
S usan Eloise Hinton was born in the 1950s in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a place that she describes as “a pleasant place to live if you don’t want to do anything.” She began The Outsiders at the age of fifteen, inspired by her frustration with the social divisions in her high school and the lack of realistic fiction for high school readers. The Outsiders, first published in 1967, tells the story of class conflict between the greasers, a group of low-class youths, and the Socs (short for Socials), a group of privileged rich kids who live on the wealthy West Side of town. The novel broke ground in the genre of Young Adult fiction, transcending established boundaries in its portrayal of violence, class conflict, and prejudice.
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