

Cherry throws the coke at Dally and says it might cool him off. They ask why Soda is not seen at school and Ponyboy explains that he is a “dropout”.

Cherry knows of Soda and of his good looks. Pg 29 Ponyboy explains that he is a Greaser. Cheery asks Ponyboy why he hangs out with “trash like that”

We learn the Ponyboy was put up a year at school. The girl introduces herself as Sherri (Cherry). Pg 28 Dally leaves and one of the girls starts to speak to Ponyboy. Pg 27 The girls ask Dally to leave them alone or they will call the cops.

She is a cheerleader at Ponyboy’s school. One of the girls tells Dally to take his feet off her chair and shut up. Ponyboy makes reference to the girls not being “our kind”. Pg 26 Dally is talking dirty very loud to get a reaction out of the girls. They go to the movies and even though they have the money Ponyboy tells us that they will not pay as Dally likes to show he will break all laws. Pg 25 They watch a fight but leave when the switch blades come out as the cops would arrive soon after. They then go to a Greasers hangout looking for any gossip. The fact that his gang witnessed the death of their second gang member in one day suggests that perhaps the circle of light was for them.Pg 24 Ponyboy and Johnny meet Dally early and they hang around the shopping center where Dally shoplifts. He pulled an unloaded gun in order to force the police to shoot him. What was Dally’s response to Johnny’s death?ĭally knew what he wanted after the death of Johnny: He wanted to die. She isn’t involved in any of the present action of The Outsiders, and she remains behind the scenes the whole time. Johnny dies as a result of the burns and injuries he suffered during the fire, and he dies knowing that he has lived a short and painful life in which he didn’t get a chance to see or do much of what he wanted to however, he dies a true hero. Sodapop and Darry go to work, and Two-Bit and Ponyboy go to get Cokes at the Tasty Freeze. Her parents refused to let her marry Sodapop because of his age, so Sandy left to live with her grandmother. Ponyboy asks Sodapop about Sandy and learns that she got pregnant and moved to Florida. What is the real reason Sandy went to Florida? This book has been banned from some schools and libraries because of the portrayal of gang violence, underage smoking and drinking, strong language/slang, and family dysfunction. It was ranked #38 on the American Library Association’s Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–1999. What are the most common reasons why the outsiders is banned? What does Darry reveal about Sandy?ĭarry tells Ponyboy that the baby isn’t Sodapop’s, and that Sandy “didn’t love him like he thought she did.” This conversation triggers Ponyboy’s realization that his fun-loving brother has problems of his own, and that when Sodapop tries to share about his life, he finds Ponyboy inattentive and “daydreaming or stuck. A blue Mustang pulls up to the restaurant, and in it they see the group of Socs that jumped Ponyboy and Johnny in the park. What happened with Sandy in the outsiders Chapter 7? Why do you think Dally would have wanted to die? Dally doesn’t have anyone else in the world that he cares about, and he doesn’t want to be alone. Johnny’s death was hard for Dally to handle because he was the one person Dally cared about. Why did dally take Johnny’s death the hardest? In 1995, parents in Montana challenged the book due to infanticide and euthanasia, and the school required parental permission before reading it. Parents complained of violent and sexual passages, and the book was temporarily banned. He explains remembering Johnny all cut up and half conscious crying after the attack. Johnny was scared of his own shadow after that” (4). Ponyboy says that he “had seen Johnny after four Socs got hold of him, and it wasn’t pretty. The reader learns that Johnny was attacked by four Socs. When was the outsiders banned?ġ986 Who attacked Johnny in the outsiders? She is mentioned once in the film, but Sodapop never says she moved or got pregnant. However, when she got pregnant, she left to go live with her grandmother in Florida. Sodapop told Ponyboy he was sure he was going to marry Sandy. South Milwaukee, Wisconsin Boone, Iowa School District George Washington Middle School in Eleanor, West Virginia 13. What are three places that tried to ban the outsiders? Hinton where she saw his character, Sodapop, going after the events of « The Outsiders. » He said she told him that Sodapop is drafted, goes to fight in Vietnam and dies there. Sodapop’s fate On a DVD commentary, Rob Lowe said he asked S.E.
