The Outsiders Study Guide

BY S.E. HINTON
NOTES BY MRS. MCDONALD

The

OUT-
SIDERS

Who is the author?

S.E. Hinton was born in 1948 but she wrote the book The Outsiders when she was only 15 years old! It first came out as a book in 1967. Later it became a movie, as well as another book she wrote called That Was Then, This Is Now.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Look at Sparknotes reference
and find out what her initials
stand for.

SparkNotes Editors. “S.E. Hinton Biography.” SparkNotes.com, SparkNotes LLC, 2005, https://www.sparknotes.com/author/s-e-hinton/.

CONTENTS

Introduction .....................................

Chapter 01 .......................................3,4

Chapter 02 .......................................

Chapter 03 .......................................

Chapter 04 .......................................

Chapter 05 .......................................

Chapter 06 .......................................

Chapter 07 .......................................

Chapter 08 .......................................

Chapter 09 .......................................

Chapter 10 .......................................

Chapter 11 .......................................

Chapter 1: Basics

Pictures: a "movie house" and "Paul Newman" (actor)

The narrator wants to look like Paul Newman: rough.

The narrator tells you what he looks like. Can you imagine what he looks like?

Funny phrases to know: (idioms or expressions)
"Crack a book" means to open and read a book.
"Drives someone nuts" means makes the person feel crazy.
"Don't use my head" means I don't think things through.
"Doesn't understand anything that is not hard fact" (p. 7) means he is 'black and white', takes things literally, doesn't see meanings of things very easily.

Darrel (Darry) 20

Soda 16

Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from pixabay.com

Mom and Dad
died in a car
accident.

Me 14

Characters: You'll notice some big movie star names in the film that was made after the book! Here is a listing of some characters.

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CHAPTER 02

SparkNotes Editors. “Summary: Chapter 2.” SparkNotes.com, SparkNotes LLC, 2005, https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/outsiders/section1/.

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What you want to remember about Ch. 2: "Cherry and Ponyboy go to get popcorn, and Ponyboy tells her about the time the Socs beat up Johnny. The leader of the gang that beat him, Ponyboy says, wore a fistful of rings. Cherry looks distressed and assures him that not all Socs are violent like the Socs that beat Johnny. She also tells him that Socs have problems just as the greasers do, but Ponyboy does not believe her."

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