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Outsiders chap.6-12
Language Arts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mr. Syme | Ponyboy's English teacher; He offers Ponyboy the opportunity to write a composition in order to earn a passing grade. He must write a theme containing his own ideas about anything. |
| Randy Adderson | Soc- Visits Ponyboy; He changes by calling Ponyboy "kid" instead of "grease" because he now respects Pony. He does not go to the rumble because he says it will not change anything. Randy says that Bob wished his parents disciplined him. |
| Paul Holden | A high school friend of Darry's. They played football together. |
| How does Dally remain the same? | Dally was tough and hardened. He believed if you stay tough, hard and cold you won’t get hurt. When Johnny was critically injured Dally tells Ponyboy to look out for himself so that nothing can touch him. |
| Why shouldn't cherry visit Johnny? | Johnny killed her boyfriend, Bob Sheldon. It would be too emotional. Johnny would be upset if he saw her. |
| Brumly | A suburb on the East side |
| Windrixville | The town the abandoned church is in |
| DX | The gas station where Soda works |
| Park | Where Johnny was brutally beaten by the socs; Where Johnny killed Bob |
| Vacant Lot | Setting of the rumble and where Dally dies |
| The Curtis Home | Where the Greasers hang out/gather |
| Conflict between the Greasers and Socs what? | Social conflict- Socs have money, regard greasers as dirt and drive fancy cars. Greasers have an opposite lifestyle. Ponyboy later sees that the two groups are the same and the violence is senseless. |
| Johnny kills bob why? | Johnny kills Bob in self-defense. Bob was drowning Ponyboy so Johnny took action to save his friend. |
| Johnny and Pony hide in church why? | Dally give the boys the hideout on Jay Mountain. |
| Tragic fire why? | Johnny is critically injured when he goes into the burning church to save the children. The burning roof falls on him. |
| Rumble between Greasers and Socs what happened? | Greasers win. Ponboy collapses from exhaustion. |
| Johnny's death how? | Johnny dies from his injuries. His last words are “Stay gold, Ponyboy.” Dally cannot handle this news because Johnny was the only thing he ever loved and now he was gone. Johnny was the only good Dally had in his life. |
| Dally's death how? | Robbed the grocery story and planned the police to chase him. He wanted to die because he lost hope without Johnny alive. He takes out his unloaded gun and the police shoot him. Dally planned his own death because he was angry, hurt and broken. |
| Pony's realization what? Similar | The ocs are like the greasers because they both have obstacles to overcome in life. (“They both see the same sunset.”) Bob Sheldon had a difficult homelife like many of the greasers do. He wished his parents would give him rules and expectations. |
| Curtis Boys' favorite breakfast food | Chocolate Cake |
| Who drove T-bird the Car? | Buck Merrill |
| Who drove the Blue Mustang? | Randy Adderson |
| Who drove the Corvette? | Cherry Valance |
| What does "stay gold" mean? | This is related to Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” “Stay gold” means stay young and innocent. Do not harden and be tough and cold like Dally. |
| Explain Johnny's letter to Pony | He tells Pony to “stay gold,”which means to stay young and optimistic like a kid, because that is the best way to be. Ponyboy should stay young and hopeful about the future. |
| Why does Pony write about the Greasers and the Socs? | Pony thinks many boys his age hate the world and feel they must be tough and violent. He wants to tell their side of the story. He wants to seem them for who they are and jot judge them by how they look. |
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