The Outsiders Review Game
Rules of Trashketball Each table consists of a team. A new person will answer a question each round. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question with your team. If it is your turn, you will then immediately answer the question. If you are correct, your team will get 1 point for the correct answer. Your team will also get the opportunity to shoot a ball into the trashcan from a 1 or 3 point line. If the shot is made, that team gets extra points.
Who Am I? I am the author of The Outsiders.
S. E. Hinton
Who am I? I am a wisecracker; I can’t stop making funny remarks or jokes all of the time.
Two bit
Who Am I? I killed Bob in self defense.
Johnny
Who Am I? I killed Dally.
The police
Who Am I? I am known for my “firey” red hair. I can hold my own in a conversation with anyone. I am a “spy” for the Greasers.
Cherry
Who am I? I am very well liked by most socs. I get away with everything. When I get in trouble, my parents blame themselves. I wish that someone would tell me, “No!”
Bob
Who Am I? I constantly feel as if I am in the middle of a tug of war. I am always caught between my two brother’s fighting. I’ve been described as “movie star handsome.”
Soda Pop
Who Am I? I am Soda’s best buddy since grade school; I am really good with cars.
Steve
Who Am I? I hate the world. I am tougher than everyone else. I’ve been in and out of jail.
Dally
Who Am I? I am the “pet” of the gang. I am like a puppy that has been kicked too many times.
Johnny
Who Am I? I am not going to the rumble because it won’t do any good. I realize that fighting doesn’t change anything.
Randy
Who Am I? I have more worries than somebody my age ought to. I work during the day as a roofer.
Darry
Who Am I? I am a loner; I get good grades, but I don’t always use my head. I get into a lot of trouble with my friend when I run away during the night.
Ponyboy
Figurative Language – What Am I? A ray of gold touched the hills.
Personification
Literary Device – What Am I? When Ponyboy and Johnny need help and guidance, they ran to the biggest criminal of the greasers.
Irony
Figurative Language – What Am I? Sweat ran down my face and back.
Personification
Figurative Language – What Am I? The horizon was a thin golden line.
Metaphor
Figurative Language – What Am I? He had…ears like a lynx.
Simile
Figurative Language – What Am I? So dawn goes down to day.
Alliteration
Figurative Language – What Am I? Everything held its breath.
Personification
Figurative Language – What Am I? The line, "Her hardest hue to hold,” from “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is an example of ______________________.
Alliteration
Figurative Language – What Am I? “So, I sat there like a bump on a log.” (Ponyboy)
Simile
Literary Device – What Am I? The lesson that a poem or literary work is trying to teach.
Theme
Figurative Language – What Am I? “Johnny was a candle with the flame gone out.”
Metaphor
Figurative Language – What Am I? “The fire reached out and grabbed Johnny’s jacket.”
Personification
Figurative Language – What Am I? He’s got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue-green ice.
Simile
Figurative Language – What Am I? "Darry didn't deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty."
Simile
Literary Device What does the sunset symbolize?
Unity or commonality It shows that even though there are differences between the Greasers and the Socs, they are still alike or the same in some ways.
Trivia What poem does Ponyboy quote by Robert Frost?
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Trivia What is the main thing that keeps Darry from being a Soc?
Having to raise his brothers following the death of his parents.
Trivia What is the Curtis boys favorite food?
Chocolate cake
Trivia Give an an example of when Johnny did not feel extremely scared or defeated.
When he saved the children from the fire
Trivia What book did Ponyboy and Johnny read while they were at the church?
Gone with the Wind
Trivia How old was S. E. Hinton when she wrote The Outsiders?
Sixteen years old.
Trivia In what small town was the old abandoned church in which Ponyboy and Johnny hid out?
Windrixville
Trivia What is the name of Soda Pop’s horse?
Mickey Mouse
Trivia In what sport does Ponyboy participate at school?
track
Trivia What does Ponyboy say is visible on both the East Side and the West Side?
sunsets
Trivia Why does Sodapop’s girlfriend Sandy move to Florida?
Because she is pregnant
Trivia How does Ponyboy get a concussion?
He is kicked in the head during the rumble.
Trivia Why are Cherry and Marcia alone at the drive-in?
The girls walked away from their boyfriends when they found out their boyfriends had been drinking.
Trivia Why does Johnny bleach Ponyboy’s hair?
So he won’t be recognized as easily.
Trivia What food does Ponyboy hate to eat?
bologna
Trivia According to Johnny, Dally is gallant because he didn’t tell ____________.
Because Dally took the rap for something he didn’t do. He didn’t tell the police that Two bit was the one who had stolen something instead of him.
Trivia What is the meaning of the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay?
All good things must end
Symbolism Define symbolism
Symbol - something that represents, stands for, or suggests an idea, belief, action, or entity deeper than the literal meaning of the symbol.
Symbolism Explain one symbol in the novel.
Any of the following: Hair grease Sunsets Switch blade Unloaded gun Gone with the Wind Ring/cars Gold You must explain it!
Conflict Define external conflict and give an example.
External conflict is a struggle that takes place between a character and some outside force. Greasers vs. Socs
Conflict Define internal conflict and give an example.
Internal conflict refers to a character’s internal struggle. A character might struggle with an emotional problem such as fear of intimacy or abandonment, for example. Internal conflict is important for characterization, since flaws and internal struggles make characters more life-like and sympathetic. Pony and Darry’s relationship Death of Bob, Johnny, and Dally Fitting in with greasers ~being different