Outsiders Ch. 1
Characterization:
__________ He looks older than twenty--- tough, cool, and smart. He would be real handsome if his eyes weren't so cold. He doesn't understand anything that is not plain hard fact. But he uses his head.
__________He can get drunk in a drag race or dancing without ever getting near alcohol. In our neighborhood it's rare to find a kid who doesn't drink once in awhile. But ___ never touches a drop--- he doesn't need to. He gets drunk on just plain living. And he understands everybody.
__________Soda's best buddy since grade school. Steve's specialty was cars. He could lift a hubcap quicker and more quietly than anyone in the neighborhood, but he also knew cars upside-down and backward, and he could drive anything on wheels.
__________He was famous for shoplifting and his black-handled switchblade (which he couldn't have acquired without his first talent), and he was always smarting off to the cops. He really couldn't help it. Everything he said was so irresistibly funny that he just had to let the police in on it to brighten up their dull lives. (That's the way he explained it to me.) He liked fights, blondes, and for some unfathomable reason, school.
__________... had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten. He was tougher than the rest of us--- tougher, colder, meaner.
__________ He was the gang's pet, everyone's kid brother. His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something….
__________ And nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do.
Define: Greaser ______________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Define: Soc _________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Setting:
Circle the following which indicate setting: red Corvair Paul Newman
jumped Will Rogers cooler
What is the setting?
Time:___________________________________________________________
Place: _________________________________________________________
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
Ponyboy is attacked when he is walking home from a Paul Newman movie.
Outsiders Ch. 2
Characterization: On the line write a word to describe the character and under it list at least 2 specific examples from chapters 1 or 2 to prove that trait.
1. Ponyboy: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
2. Dally: ______________________________________________________
A.
B.
3. Johnny:: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
4. Cherry:: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
Setting:
List two other indicators of the setting.
5.
6.
Flashback:
7. What happened to Johnny in the flashback?
Theme:
8. Explain this quote: “‘We have troubles you've never even heard of. You want to know something?" She looked me straight in the eye. "Things are rough all over.’"
9. “I really couldn't see what Socs would have to sweat about--- good grades, good cars, good
girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs--- Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd
consider myself lucky.
I know better now.”
Is this a flashback or foreshadowing?
_____________________________________________________
Outsiders Ch. 3
Setting:
List two other indicators of the setting.
1.
2.
3. Contrast a greaser and a soc, according to Cherry.
4. Explain the following simile: “He's hard as a rock and about as human. He's got eyes exactly like frozen ice.”
5. Explain the following: “‘I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me." Johnny sighed. "At least then I know he knows who I am. I walk in that house, and nobody says anything. I walk
out, and nobody says anything. I stay away all night, and nobody notices. At least you got
Soda. I ain't got nobody."
"Shoot," I said, startled out of my misery, "you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight 'cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whole gang."
"It ain't the same as having your own folks care about you," Johnny said simply. "It just ain't the same."
6. Copy an example of foreshadowing from this chapter.
Outsiders Ch. 4 - 5
2. How does the setting “Tall elm trees made the park shadowy and dark” foreshadow what is
going to happen later in the chapter?
3. What figurative device is
“It was like sitting on the top of the world.”? _________________
“Dally took a corner on two wheels with the brakes screaming.” ___________________
4. Why does Johnny think Dally is gallant?
5. All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds. The sky was lighter in the east,and the horizon was a thin golden line. The clouds changed from gray to pink, and the mist was touched with gold. There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose. It was beautiful.
"Too bad it couldn't stay like that all the time."
"Nothing gold can stay." I was remembering a poem I'd read once.
"What?"
"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."
After reading the passage above, compare how the poem is similar to the sunrise description.
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
6. Ponyboy almost drowns in the park.
7. Cherry helps the greasers by being a spy.
Outsiders Ch. 6
Characterization: On the line write a word to describe the character and under it list at least 2 specific examples from the book to prove that trait.
1. Ponyboy: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
2. Dally: ______________________________________________________
A.
B.
3. Johnny:: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
4. What figurative device is:
“The roar and crackling was getting louder” __________________________
“The cinders and embers began falling on us, stinging and smarting like ants.”
______________________________
5. What caused Ponyboy to see Dally in a different way?
6. What does Ponyboy realize about Darry at the end of the chapter?
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
7. Ponyboy and Johnny try to rescue children from a burning church.
Outsiders Ch. 7
2. What was Bob’s “real” problem according to Randy?
3. Explain the idiom: “Sodapop kept them in stitches.”
4. Why is the Curtis boy’s home never locked?
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
5. Ponyboy identifies Randy as just a guy, not a Soc.
Outsiders Ch. 8
1. What figurative device is:
“...pale as the pillow.” ________________________________
2. If Darry didn’t have Ponyboy or Soda, why would he be a Soc?
Characterization: On the line write a word to describe the character and under it list at least 2 specific examples from the book to prove that trait.
3. Johnny’s mother: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
4. Johnny refuses to see his mother when she comes to the hospital.
5. Describe one conflict (not the one in question #4) in this chapter. Label it either internal or
external.
Outsiders Ch. 9
1. Contrast why each of the boys likes to fight:
Soda: __________________________________________________________
Steve: __________________________________________________________
Darry: __________________________________________________________
Characterization: On the line write a word to describe the character and under it list at least 2 specific examples from the book to prove that trait.
2. Dally: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
3. What does the idiom “cut from the same cloth” mean?
4. “The silence grew heavier” is an example of: personification, alliteration or metaphor?
5. What effect does Dally’s late arrival to the rumble have?
6. What does Johnny mean by his last words?
Outsiders Ch. 10
1. Did Dally die gallantly? _____________________ Explain.
2. Why was Ponyboy concerned with whether or not he had asked for Dary while he was
unconscious?
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
3. Dally robs a grocery store.
Outsiders Ch. 11
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
Outsiders Ch. 12
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
2. Sodapop asks Darry and Ponyboy not to fight.
Characterization:
- Ponyboy Curtis e. Two-Bit Matthews
- Sodapop Curtis f. Johnny Cade
- Darry Curtis g. Dally Winston
- Steve Randall h. Cherry Valance
__________ He looks older than twenty--- tough, cool, and smart. He would be real handsome if his eyes weren't so cold. He doesn't understand anything that is not plain hard fact. But he uses his head.
__________He can get drunk in a drag race or dancing without ever getting near alcohol. In our neighborhood it's rare to find a kid who doesn't drink once in awhile. But ___ never touches a drop--- he doesn't need to. He gets drunk on just plain living. And he understands everybody.
__________Soda's best buddy since grade school. Steve's specialty was cars. He could lift a hubcap quicker and more quietly than anyone in the neighborhood, but he also knew cars upside-down and backward, and he could drive anything on wheels.
__________He was famous for shoplifting and his black-handled switchblade (which he couldn't have acquired without his first talent), and he was always smarting off to the cops. He really couldn't help it. Everything he said was so irresistibly funny that he just had to let the police in on it to brighten up their dull lives. (That's the way he explained it to me.) He liked fights, blondes, and for some unfathomable reason, school.
__________... had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten. He was tougher than the rest of us--- tougher, colder, meaner.
__________ He was the gang's pet, everyone's kid brother. His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something….
__________ And nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do.
Define: Greaser ______________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Define: Soc _________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Setting:
Circle the following which indicate setting: red Corvair Paul Newman
jumped Will Rogers cooler
What is the setting?
Time:___________________________________________________________
Place: _________________________________________________________
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
Ponyboy is attacked when he is walking home from a Paul Newman movie.
Outsiders Ch. 2
Characterization: On the line write a word to describe the character and under it list at least 2 specific examples from chapters 1 or 2 to prove that trait.
1. Ponyboy: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
2. Dally: ______________________________________________________
A.
B.
3. Johnny:: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
4. Cherry:: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
Setting:
List two other indicators of the setting.
5.
6.
Flashback:
7. What happened to Johnny in the flashback?
Theme:
8. Explain this quote: “‘We have troubles you've never even heard of. You want to know something?" She looked me straight in the eye. "Things are rough all over.’"
9. “I really couldn't see what Socs would have to sweat about--- good grades, good cars, good
girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs--- Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd
consider myself lucky.
I know better now.”
Is this a flashback or foreshadowing?
_____________________________________________________
Outsiders Ch. 3
Setting:
List two other indicators of the setting.
1.
2.
3. Contrast a greaser and a soc, according to Cherry.
4. Explain the following simile: “He's hard as a rock and about as human. He's got eyes exactly like frozen ice.”
5. Explain the following: “‘I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me." Johnny sighed. "At least then I know he knows who I am. I walk in that house, and nobody says anything. I walk
out, and nobody says anything. I stay away all night, and nobody notices. At least you got
Soda. I ain't got nobody."
"Shoot," I said, startled out of my misery, "you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight 'cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whole gang."
"It ain't the same as having your own folks care about you," Johnny said simply. "It just ain't the same."
6. Copy an example of foreshadowing from this chapter.
Outsiders Ch. 4 - 5
- How did Hinton foreshadow that Johnny would use his knife in chapter 2?
2. How does the setting “Tall elm trees made the park shadowy and dark” foreshadow what is
going to happen later in the chapter?
3. What figurative device is
“It was like sitting on the top of the world.”? _________________
“Dally took a corner on two wheels with the brakes screaming.” ___________________
4. Why does Johnny think Dally is gallant?
5. All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds. The sky was lighter in the east,and the horizon was a thin golden line. The clouds changed from gray to pink, and the mist was touched with gold. There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose. It was beautiful.
"Too bad it couldn't stay like that all the time."
"Nothing gold can stay." I was remembering a poem I'd read once.
"What?"
"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."
After reading the passage above, compare how the poem is similar to the sunrise description.
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
6. Ponyboy almost drowns in the park.
7. Cherry helps the greasers by being a spy.
Outsiders Ch. 6
Characterization: On the line write a word to describe the character and under it list at least 2 specific examples from the book to prove that trait.
1. Ponyboy: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
2. Dally: ______________________________________________________
A.
B.
3. Johnny:: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
4. What figurative device is:
“The roar and crackling was getting louder” __________________________
“The cinders and embers began falling on us, stinging and smarting like ants.”
______________________________
5. What caused Ponyboy to see Dally in a different way?
6. What does Ponyboy realize about Darry at the end of the chapter?
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
7. Ponyboy and Johnny try to rescue children from a burning church.
Outsiders Ch. 7
- Why would being crippled be worse for Johnny than anyone else?
2. What was Bob’s “real” problem according to Randy?
3. Explain the idiom: “Sodapop kept them in stitches.”
4. Why is the Curtis boy’s home never locked?
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
5. Ponyboy identifies Randy as just a guy, not a Soc.
Outsiders Ch. 8
1. What figurative device is:
“...pale as the pillow.” ________________________________
2. If Darry didn’t have Ponyboy or Soda, why would he be a Soc?
Characterization: On the line write a word to describe the character and under it list at least 2 specific examples from the book to prove that trait.
3. Johnny’s mother: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
4. Johnny refuses to see his mother when she comes to the hospital.
5. Describe one conflict (not the one in question #4) in this chapter. Label it either internal or
external.
Outsiders Ch. 9
1. Contrast why each of the boys likes to fight:
Soda: __________________________________________________________
Steve: __________________________________________________________
Darry: __________________________________________________________
Characterization: On the line write a word to describe the character and under it list at least 2 specific examples from the book to prove that trait.
2. Dally: ____________________________________________________
A.
B.
3. What does the idiom “cut from the same cloth” mean?
4. “The silence grew heavier” is an example of: personification, alliteration or metaphor?
5. What effect does Dally’s late arrival to the rumble have?
6. What does Johnny mean by his last words?
Outsiders Ch. 10
1. Did Dally die gallantly? _____________________ Explain.
2. Why was Ponyboy concerned with whether or not he had asked for Dary while he was
unconscious?
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
3. Dally robs a grocery store.
Outsiders Ch. 11
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
- Ponyboy fears being taken away from his brothers.
Outsiders Ch. 12
Conflict: Identify the type of conflict involved in the following situation(s).
- Ponyboy starts to write his English paper.
2. Sodapop asks Darry and Ponyboy not to fight.