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From which character's perspective is The Outsiders primarily narrated?
From which character's perspective is The Outsiders primarily narrated?
- Dally Winston
- Darry Curtis
- Johnny Cade
- Ponyboy Curtis (correct)
In The Outsiders, where does Ponyboy first encounter Cherry Valance?
In The Outsiders, where does Ponyboy first encounter Cherry Valance?
- At the Curtis home
- At the drive-in movie theater (correct)
- At an abandoned church in Windrixville
- At the gas station where Sodapop works
What is the primary reason Darry works so hard to keep his brothers together, even sacrificing his own desires?
What is the primary reason Darry works so hard to keep his brothers together, even sacrificing his own desires?
- He fears being left alone without any family.
- He wants to prevent them from being separated by child protective services after their parents' death. (correct)
- He wants to maintain his popular status from high school.
- He enjoys the authority and control it gives him.
What action leads to Johnny killing Bob?
What action leads to Johnny killing Bob?
Why do Ponyboy and Johnny seek out Dally's help after the incident at the park?
Why do Ponyboy and Johnny seek out Dally's help after the incident at the park?
What is the significance of Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" in The Outsiders?
What is the significance of Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" in The Outsiders?
Why does Johnny ultimately decide to turn himself in to the police?
Why does Johnny ultimately decide to turn himself in to the police?
What is the primary reason Cherry refuses to visit Johnny in the hospital?
What is the primary reason Cherry refuses to visit Johnny in the hospital?
What is the main point of Johnny's letter that he leaves for Ponyboy?
What is the main point of Johnny's letter that he leaves for Ponyboy?
After Johnny's death, Dally's actions suggest that...
After Johnny's death, Dally's actions suggest that...
Flashcards
The Outsiders POV
The Outsiders POV
From Ponyboy's point of view.
Setting of The Outsiders
Setting of The Outsiders
Tulsa, OK
The Greasers
The Greasers
A loosely organized gang that were almost like hoods, stealing things and getting into gang fights.
The Socs
The Socs
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Decade of The Outsiders
Decade of The Outsiders
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Protagonist
Protagonist
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Sodapop
Sodapop
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Johnny Cade
Johnny Cade
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Who Dally hits on at the drive-in
Who Dally hits on at the drive-in
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goes to Windrixville for help
goes to Windrixville for help
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Study Notes
- The story "The Outsiders" is told from Ponyboy's perspective.
- The setting for the story is Tulsa, OK.
- The greasers are described as a loosely organized gang that "were almost like hoods, stealing things and getting into gang fights".
- The antagonists in the story are The Socs.
- The story is set in the 1960s.
- Ponyboy is the protagonist.
- Ponyboy has a high IQ and is a good student.
- The Socs are a gang of West-side rich kids.
- Sodapop is movie-star handsome, easy-going, worked at a gas station, and dropped out of school.
- Ponyboy is 14 years old.
- Johnny had been scared of his own shadow since being jumped by four Socs.
- Ponyboy's parents died in a car wreck.
- Darry is six-foot-two and muscular, didn't go to college, took a job to keep his brothers together, voted "Best Boy" in high school and is popular.
- Ponyboy meets Cherry Valance at the drive-in.
- Ponyboy gets jumped by the Socs in the red Corvair because he was walking alone.
- Dally Winston is the greaser who was tougher, meaner, and colder than the rest.
- Johnny Cade is "the gang's pet; everyone's brother; parents beat and ignored him; like a lost puppy".
- Darry didn't like Ponyboy and would stick him in a home if it wasn't for Soda.
- Cherry and Marcia ended up getting in the blue Mustang and leaving with their boyfriends.
- Cherry assured Ponyboy that things were rough for the Socs.
- Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-bit planned to take Marcia and Cherry home from the drive-in because the girls had walked out on their boyfriends who had brought booze with them.
- When Ponyboy came home at 2:00 AM, Darry hit him.
- Johnny killed Bob because he was drowning Ponyboy.
- Ponyboy and Johnny go to Dally for help.
- At 2:30 AM in the park, Johnny and Ponyboy were jumped by 5 Socs.
- Johnny killed Bob with a switchblade.
- Ponyboy and Johnny got to Windrixville by hopping into a boxcar.
- Ponyboy remembered the Robert Frost poem with the line "Nothing gold can stay" when the boys watched the sunrise.
- Ponyboy and Johnny cut their hair to change their appearance.
- Ponyboy read "Gone with the Wind" to Johnny while hiding out in the church.
- Ponyboy and Johnny hid out in an abandoned church in Windrixville.
- Ponyboy said that the Greasers' trademark was their hair.
- Dally slapped Ponyboy on the back as he came out of the burning church because his back was on fire.
- Johnny decided to turn himself in.
- Ponyboy and Johnny ran into the burning church because there were kids inside and they assumed they were the ones who had started the fire.
- Cherry turned down Dally's invitation for a Coke because she was afraid she would fall in love with him.
- The newspaper called Ponyboy and Johnny juvenile delinquents turned heroes.
- Ponyboy finally understood that Darry cared about him when Darry cried.
- After the church fire Johnny had a broken back and third-degree burns.
- Ponyboy was afraid that when he went to court he would be separated from his brothers.
- Just before escaping the burning building Johnny was struck across the back by a falling timber/beam.
- Johnny asked Ponyboy to bring a copy of "Gone with the Wind" to the hospital.
- Bob was the Soc that gave Johnny the awful beating; wanted someone to set limits for him; was killed by Johnny.
- Bob's friend was Randy Anderson.
- Cherry Valance and Randy Anderson were two people who were willing to testify that Bob was drunk and looking for a fight the night he was killed.
- Dally robbed a grocery store and was killed by the police after Johnny's death.
- At his hearing, Ponyboy was acquitted (found not guilty) of all of his crimes and the case was closed.
- At the end of the rumble, the Socs were defeated.
- Ponyboy was relieved to learn that while he was sick, he had called for Darry as well as Soda.
- Johnny's last words to Ponyboy were "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold".
- Everyone has problems, and suffering is part of the human condition.
- In chapter 2, Cherry tells Ponyboy, "Things are rough all over", Ponyboy figured out what she meant was everyone has their struggles.
- The quote "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..." appears at the beginning of the novel.
- Johnny's letter to Ponyboy said he knew he was dying, but saving the kids was worth it; Ponyboy could stay gold by looking at things as if they were new.
- Darry and Ponyboy decide to stop arguing because Soda was caught in the middle and it was tearing him apart.
- Ponyboy decided to tell his story for his English assignment so he want hundreds of other boys like himself to know there’s still good in the world.
- When Ponyboy told Randy, "Greaser didn't have anything to do with it... It's the individual" he meant you can’t tell everything about a person by the group he’s part of.
- The major theme of The Outsiders is to get to know people before you judge them.
- Ponyboy is different from the rest of the gang because he doesn't like to fight.
- Randy says he would have left the kids in the church to burn.
- The theme of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is nothing stays pure or innocent forever.
- Cherry confesses to being attracted to Dally.
- When Johnny says, "Stay gold, Ponyboy," in his final breaths he wants Ponyboy to keep seeing the beauty and good in the world as a child does.
- Mother and Father Curtis were killed in a car wreck.
- Ponyboy was knocked unconscious after his jacket catches on fire.
- Dally brags about his criminal record.
- Bob bruises Johnny's face with his rings.
- Sodapop clowns around with reporters at the hospital.
- Ponyboy daydreams about living in the country and buying Soda a horse.
- Randy visits Ponyboy while he is recovering from Johnny's death.
- Johnny refuses to see his mother in the hospital.
- Darry strains his muscles by carrying roofing materials.
- S.E. Hinton is the author of The Outsiders.
- Cherry describes how much she loved Bob.
- Johnny runs away from home to avoid hearing an argument.
- Ponyboy is the narrator of The Outsiders.
- Dally was killed by the police.
- Bob was killed by Johnny.
- Darry is Ponyboy's oldest brother.
- Johnny killed Bob and saved the children.
- 1 Samuel 16:7 says "Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart".
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