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The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
“Things are rough all over” (p. 35, Cherry).
S. E. Hinton background
born in the 1950s in Tulsa, Oklahoma
 Inspired by the social divisions at her
high school and the lack of realistic
fiction for adolescents
 Published under S.E Hinton to cloak her
gender to the public
 She was 16 years-old when she wrote
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The Outsiders
The Outsiders (1967)
Groundbreaking young adult novel
 Set in the 1960s Southwest
 Class conflict between the Greasers and
the Socs (socials)
 Low-class youths vs. privileged rich kids
 Violence, class conflict, prejudice
 Bildungsroman
 Allegory
 Circular plot
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Outsiders Reflection I
After reading the S.E. Hinton interview,please answer
the following questions in your notebook :
1. What are 5 facts about S.E Hinton that are
important?
2. What are 5 of S.E. Hinton influences as she wrote
The Outsiders? Or, how did what was happening
in the world of politics and society influence The
Outsiders?
3. As we read a text that is written as a flashback in
the first person, how could that affect our
perspective of a story?
Table Discussion Questions
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What does it mean to be an “outsider”?
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Describe a time when you have felt like an
outsider.
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What does it mean to be an “insider”?
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Read the first and the last sentences
(pages 1 & 180) in The Outsiders.
 What do you notice?
 What literary element is operating
here?
 Ponyboy has written this book as an
English assignment after he has missed
a lot of school, so it is a flashback
written in the 1st person. How might this
change our perspective of the story?
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Characters
 Title
a new Cornell notes page: Characters
 Write down all the characters’ names and
leave a couple of lines between each
 Briefly describe each of the main characters
as you read the first few chapters. Write
down which "group" each belongs to,
his/her age, and some unique things about
each person.
The Greasers
Ponyboy Curtis
 Sodapop Curtis
 Darry Curtis
 Steve Randle
 Keith "Two-Bit"
Mathews
 Dallas Winston
 Johnny Cade
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The Socs
Cherry
 Marcia
 Bob
 Randy
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Table Discussion Questions
How are the Greasers like a family?
How do Darry, SodaPop and Ponyboy
operate as a family?
 What is the problem between Darry and
Ponyboy? Why do you think Darry’s
expectations are different for Ponyboy than
for SodaPop?
 What is Johnny’s “position” in the gang?
What is happening to him in his family life
and what has happened to him with the
Socs that has contributed to his position in
the gang?
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The Outsiders
by S.E Hinton
Chapter Reflection Questions
Chapter 1: The Greasers
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Re-read chapter 1: YES! Re-read it! We are
studying, not just reading, this piece of literature!
Character: Copy down a sentence in quotation
marks (and note the page number) for each
member of the Greasers that either describes his
personality or appearance.
Conflict: Find one sentence that describes a
difference between the Greasers and the Socs;
copy down the sentence in quotation marks, note
the page number, and explain in your own words
what it means.
Vocabulary
Perspiration (4)
 Determined (6)
 Sympathetic (8)
 Unfathomable (10)
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Chapter 2: The Conflict
Why do the Soc girls--Marcia and Cherry--sit
by the Greasers?
2. Can you name some other differences
between the Socs and the Greasers?
3. Summarize the events that occurred to
Johnny “four months ago.” How did they
effect him?
4. Find one important sentence from the
chapter. Copy it down in quotation marks
and tell why you think it’s important.
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Vocabulary
Winced (23)
 Nonchalantly (25)
 Admiringly (28)
 Rebellious (34)
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Chapter 3: The conversation continues…
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What more do Cherry and PonyBoy say about how
the Socs are similar or different from the Greasers?
What is important about the sunset in the story?
What more do we learn about the Greasers’ family
lives?
What does PonyBoy say about how bad the Greasers
have it compared to the Socs?
Why does PonyBoy dream about getting away to the
country?
Why is Darry so upset about PonyBoy coming in
late?
Why would Johnny rather have his “old man” hitting
him instead of ignoring him?
Find one important sentence from the chapter. Copy
it down in quotation marks and tell why you think it’s
important. Include the page number in parentheses.
Vocabulary
Gallantly (37)
 Resignedly (44)
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Chapter 4
1. What does Pony mean when he says the
socs were "reeling pickled” ?
2. What major event happens in this
chapter?
3. How did the author foreshadow that
johnny would use his knife in chapter 2?
4. What would your advice be to Johhny
and Ponyboy if they'd come to you for
help instead of Dally? Explain.
Vocabulary
Glint (55)
 Unceasingly (56)
 Apprehensive (59)
 Contemptuously (59)
 Premonition (67)
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Chapter 5
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Why does Pony have a problem with Johnny's idea to disguise
themselves?
Do you think Johnny is a hero? Do you think Dally is a hero
based on what he did?
Why does Pony realize he doesn't like Dally? Can you explain
what he means by this?
Examine Robert Frost's poem, Nothing Gold can Stay. What do
you think the poem is saying? How might this apply to the
characters in the novel?
Johnny compares Pony and his brothers to their parents. Which
one of your parents are you most like? What similarities do you
share?
What's a 'heater'? Why does Dally have one?
Why are the socs and the greasers going to fight in the vacant lot?
Who's the spy for the greasers? Does this surprise you? Why or
why not?
Vocabulary
 Quavering
 Hue
(74)
(77)
 Subsides (77)
 Eluded (78)
 Siege
(79)
Chapter 6 & 7
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How does Jerry stereotype the Greasers? Why is he so surprised
that the Greasers would save the little kids from the fire?
What does PonyBoy realize about his relationship with Darry?
What was Darry afraid of, according to PonyBoy?
“I had taken the long way around, but I was finally home. To stay”.
What does this quote mean?
What condition is Johnny in after the fire?
Why would being crippled be worse for Johnny than someone
else?
What is a juvenile delinquent?
Why would Two-Bit think Johnny, Dally, and Pony were heroes all
along; before they saved the kids?
What was Bob's 'real' problem, according to Randy?
Why did Pony think it was better to see socs as "just
guys”? What do you think he means by this?
Vocabulary
Hesitation (90)
 Promptly (93)
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Keeled (94)
 Plasma (95)
 Pleaded (103)
 Bulged (105)
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Chapter 8
1. How does what the doctor first says
foreshadow Johnny's condition?
2. "We needed Johnny as much as he needed the
gang. And for the same reason”. What do you
think Pony means, and what is the reason?
3. What does Pony mean when he says, "we could
get along without anyone but Johnny"?
4. If Darry didn't have Soda and Pony, why would
he be a soc?
5. What does Cherry mean when she says Bob
"wasn't just anyone”?
Vocabulary
Vacant (108)
 Divert (110)
 Showpiece (110)
 Traitor (113)
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Chapter 9
1. When Pony asks what kind of a world it is, what is he
saying about how society judges people?
2. Why do the boys fight? Why is Pony different?
3. What is the difference between Tim Sheppard's gang
and Ponyboy's? Explain how Pony feels this difference
might give his group the upper hand?
4. What do you think Johnny's last words—“Stay gold,
Ponyboy. Stay gold”-- mean?
Vocabulary
Grimacing (134)
 Reformatory (135)
 Conformity (137)
 Amplifier (137)
 Leery (139)
 Static (147)
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Chapter 10 & 11
1. How does Pony's dreaming, or lying to
himself, finally work in this chapter?
2. Why was Johnny's dying so difficult for Dally
to handle?
3. Why do you think Dally would have wanted
to die?
4. Explain why Pony might rather have anyone's
hate than their pity.
Vocabulary
Daze (150)
 Stupor (150)
 Stricken (152)
 Delirious (158)
 Idolized (162)
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Chapter 12
Why doesn't Ponyboy feel scared when the
Socs approach him and he threatens them
with a broken bottle? How has Ponyboy
changed?
2. What does Darry mean when he says, “You
don't just stop living because you lose
someone”?
3. How do we know Sandy didn't love Soda as
much as he loved her?
4. Explain how Darry and Ponyboy play tug of
war with Soda.
5. What was so special about Johnny?
6. What does Ponyboy end up doing for his
English assignment?
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Vocabulary
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Acquitted (168)
“When you’re a kid everything’s new,
dawn. It’s just when you get used to
everything that it’s day.”
--Chapter 12, Johnny
“There should be some help, someone
should tell their side of the story, and
maybe people would understand then
and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy
by the amount of hair oil he wore. It
was important to me.
--Chapter 12, Ponyboy
Final discussion
 Discuss
why S.E Hinton chose to title
this book The Outsiders
 What is the lesson in The Outsiders?
 “Greasers will be greasers and Socs will
be Socs,” said Randy. What does he
mean ?
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“You take up for your buddies, no matter
what they do. When you’re a gang, you stick
up for the members. If you don’t stick up
for them, stick together, make like brothers,
it isn’t a gang anymore. It’s a pack. A
snarling, distrustful, bickering pack like the
Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs
in New York or the wolves in the timber.”
-Chapter 2, Ponyboy about Dally to Cherry
and Marcia
“It seems like we’re always searching for
something to satisfy us, and never finding it.
Maybe if we could lose our cool we could.”
 -Chapter 3, Cherry about life as a Soc
 “It’s not money, it’s feeling – you don’t feel
anything and we feel too violently,”
 -Chapter 3, Ponyboy about Socs vs. Greasers
 “It would be a miracle if Dally loved anything. The
fight for self-preservation had hardened him
beyond caring.”
 -Chapter 4, Ponyboy about Dally
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“At the word ‘murder,’ Johnny made a small
noise in his throat and shuddered.”
 -Chapter 4, Ponyboy about Johnny
 “Maybe we couldn’t have Corvairs or
madras shirts, but we could have hair.”
 -Chapter 5, Ponyboy about cutting his hair
 “That was the only time I can think of when
I saw him without that defeated, suspicious
look in his eyes. He looked like he was
having the time of his life.”
 -Chapter 6, Ponyboy about Johnny
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“I had taken the long way around, but I was finally home. To
stay.”
-Chapter 6, Ponyboy
“Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That
way you could tell the other guy was human too.”
-Chapter 7, Ponyboy
“You can’t win, even if you whip us. You’ll still be where you
were before – at the bottom. And we’ll still be the lucky ones
with all the breaks. So it doesn’t do any good, the fighting
and killing. It doesn’t prove a thing. We’ll forget it if you win,
or if you don’t. Greasers will be Greasers. Socs will be Socs.
Sometimes I think it’s the ones in the middle that are really
the lucky stiffs…”
-Chapter 7, Randy
“Sixteen years on the streets and you can
learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the
things you want to learn. Sixteen years on
the streets and you see a lot. But all the
wrong sights, not the sights you want to
see.”
 -Chapter 8, Johnny
 “Soda fought for fun. Steve for hatred,
Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity.
Why do I fight?”
 -Chapter 9, Ponyboy
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“I’d rather have anyone’s hate than their pity.”
 -Chapter 11, Ponyboy
 “When you’re a kid everything’s new, dawn. It’s
just when you get used to everything that it’s day.”
 -Chapter 12, Johnny
 “There should be some help, someone should tell
their side of the story, and maybe people would
understand then and wouldn’t be so quick to
judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore. It
was important to me.
 -Chapter 12, Ponyboy
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