1. Write down the first sentence of the novel. What does Ponyboy mean by these words? 2. What is the setting of this novel? 3. What is the point of view? 4. What are the differences between the Socs and the Greasers? 5. Which group do you suppose the author has more sympathy for? Why? 6. How do Ponyboy’s feelings for Sodapop differ from his feelings for Darry? 7. Why do you suppose Darry acts the way he does? 8. What mistake did Ponyboy make in the beginning of the book? 9. How did the gang get him out of trouble? 10. What is the conflict of the novel? 11. Why is Johnny afraid all of the time? 12. Why does Johnny depend on the gang so much? 13. Who are Dally, Two-Bit, Steve, and Sandy?

Answer and Explanation:

1.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."Ponyboy was worried about walking home alone and he wanted to look like him.

2.The setting of the novel is a town in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s.

3.The point of view of this novel is the first person.

4.The Greasers we poor and they lived on the east side they had long hair and put grease in and Socs were rich and lived on the west side and preppy.

5. The author is showing more sympathy to the Greasers because he describes them in a positive way and he is a greaser.

6. Ponyboys feelings for Sodapop are different because Sodapop understands everything, and Ponyboy loved Sodapop more than he had ever loved someone else. Darry is more than a father figure than Sodapop is like a brother. Darry treats him as if he was six instead of fourteen and is not as fun as Sodapop.

7. Darry acts the way he does because is he their legal guardian.

8. Ponyboy walked home by himself alone.

9. The gang got Ponyboy out of trouble by after the Socs jumped them they scared them away.

10. The conflict in the novel is about the Socs and the greasers. Ponyboy needs to grow up.

11. Johnny is afraid all of the time because his father beats him up and his mother ignores him. Also, Johnny got jumped by the Socs one time badly.

12. Johnny depends on the gang so much because that's like his family. His parents are abusive.

13. Steve is Soda's best bud since grade school. Two-Bit was of the gang and the wisecracker of the bunch, he is fun, loving, good sense of humor. Dally always getting in trouble. Sandy was Soda's girlfriend

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