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The Outsiders Study Guide Chapters 1-2

|Chapter 1 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

|In Chapter 1, Ponyboy, the narrator of the story, is a 14-year old boy who is |“’You don’t ever think,’ Darry broke in, ‘not at home or anywhere when it |[pic] |

|part of the poorer social class known as “greasers” (they rival the richer |counts. You must think at school, with all those good grades you bring home, |“And nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I|

|social class known as “Socs”). After watching a movie by himself, he begins to |and you’ve always got your nose in a book, but do you ever use your head for |do” (Hinton 2). |

|walk home when he is spotted by a group of Socs who begin beat him up. Luckily,|common sense?’” (Hinton 13). | |

|the greaser gang comes to his rescue; however, his older brother, Darry, yells |Context (1-2): | |

|at him for not being street smart. Darry has to take care of him and Sodapop, |In this quote, Darry is scolding Ponyboy for not using common sense. Darry | |

|16-year old brother, because their parents died in a car accident. |argues that Ponyboy has good grades and reads a lot, but he doesn’t use his | |

| |head in real life situations. | |

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| |Ponyboy is more innocent when compared to the rest of the greaser gang and | |

| |believes that people are mostly good. He likes school and likes to be alone, | |

| |which makes him brainy, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but he does have | |

| |to survive in his rough neighborhood. | |

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| |In real life, people must be both school and street smart. Life is filled with | |

| |many situations where you need to use your brain to get ahead, but you must be | |

| |able to protect yourself. | |

|Chapter 2 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“’No,’ Cherry said slowly, looking at me carefully, ‘not innocent. You’ve seen | |

| |too much to be innocent. Just not…dirty’” (Hinton 26). | |

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The Outsiders Study Guide Chapters 3-4

|Chapter 3 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“’…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’” (Hinton 38). | |

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|Chapter 4 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“The fight for self-preservation had hardened him beyond caring” (Hinton 59). | |

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The Outsiders Study Guide Chapters 5-6

|Chapter 5 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“When you haven’t got anything to do, you remember things in spite of yourself.| |

| |I could remember every detail of the whole night, but it had the unreal quality| |

| |of a dream” (Hinton 69). | |

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|Chapter 6 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“That was his silent fear then—of losing another person he loved” (Hinton 98). | |

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The Outsiders Study Guide Chapters 7-8

|Chapter 7 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“’…He kept trying to make someone say ‘No’ and they never did. They never did. | |

| |That was what he wanted. For somebody to tell him ‘No.’ To have somebody lay | |

| |down the law, set the limits, give him something solid to stand on. That’s what| |

| |we all want, really…’” (Hinton 116). | |

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|Chapter 8 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“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” (Hinton | |

| |122). | |

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The Outsiders Study Guide Chapters 9-10

|Chapter 9 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“Johnny’s eyes glowed. Dally was proud of him. That was all Johnny had ever | |

| |wanted” (Hinton 148). | |

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|Chapter 10 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“Dally had reached the circle of light under the street lamp, and skidding to a| |

| |halt, he turned and jerked a black object from his waistband” (Hinton 153). | |

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The Outsiders Study Guide Chapters 11-12

|Chapter 11 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“It was a funny thing—it bugged me about my friends seeing our house. But I | |

| |couldn’t have cared less about what Randy thought” (Hinton 163). | |

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|Chapter 12 Plot Summary (3-5 sentences) |Response to Literature (5 sentences) |Symbolic Picture and Quote |

| |“It was the oddest feeling in the world. I didn’t feel anything—scared, mad, or| |

| |anything. Just zero” (Hinton 170-171). | |

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