The Outsiders Flashcards
Ponyboy
“I was still thinking about it while I was doing my homework” –reflective
“That kind of kicks just don’t appeal to me” – respectful
“It was personal” - guarded
“I can lie so easily that it spooks me sometimes” - honest
“They just don’t dig. Just you and Sodapop”- misunderstood
Johnny
“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.” -final words, don’t change
“If you can picture a lost little dark puppy that had been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you’ll have Johnny”
“If it hadn’t been for the gang, Johnny never would have known what love and affection are”
“Johnny… he’s been hurt bad sometime, hasn’t he”
“That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes.”
Soda
“I can’t stand it that Soda dropped out. ‘He’s a dropout,’ I said roughly. ‘Dropout’ made me think of some poor dumb-looking hoodlum wandering the streets breaking out streetlights—it didn’t fit my happy-go-lucky brother at all. It fitted Dally perfectly, but you could hardly say it about Soda.”
“Soda never touches a drop – he doesn’t need to. He gets drunk on plain living”
Darry
Darry didn’t deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty”
“He’s just got more worries than someone his age ought to”
“Darry’s gone through a lot in his twenty years, grown up too fast”
“Oh Pony, I thought we’d lost you… like we did Mom and Dad”
Dally
His eyes were blue, blazing ice, cold with a hatred of the world.”
“He’s gonna blow up. He couldn’t take it”
“He’s just robbed a grocery store and the cops are after him”
“He was jerked half around by the impact of the bullets, then slowly crumpled with a look of grim triumph on his face. He was dead before he hit the ground”
Us vs them
“I’m not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that’s just the way things are”
“I really couldn’t see what the Socs would have to sweat about – good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs – Man, I thought, if I had worries like that, I’d consider myself lucky. I know better now”
“Next time you want a broad, pick up yer own kind”
Greasers vs Soc doesn’t matter
“Greaser didn’t have anything to do with it”
“Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.”
“Things are rough all over.”
The fire - Ponyboy
“We started it. We started it. We started it.”
“Or are you just professional heroes”
The fire - Johnny
“That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes.”
“Johnny, well, I don’t know about him. A piece of timber caught him across the back – he might have a broken back”
“It was Johnny I was worried about. He was in critical condition. His back had been broken when that piece of timbre fell on him. He was in severe shock and suffering from third degree burns”
Anti violence
“Why do I fight? I thought and couldn’t think of any real good reason. There isn’t any real good reason for fighting except self-defence”
“So, it doesn’t do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn’t prove a thing”
When Johnny was attacked
They had caught him and one of them had a lot of rings on his hand—that’s what had cut Johnny up so badly. It wasn’t just that they had beaten him half to death—he could take that. They had scared him”
Killing Bob
“I killed him”
“I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you”
“I killed a kid last night. He couldn’t of been over seventeen or eighteen, and I killed him.”
“There sure is a lot of blood in people”
The greasers as a family
“If we don’t have each other, we don’t have anything
“We’re almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighbourhood like ours you get to know each other real well”
If it hadn’t been for the gang, Johnny never would have known what love and affection are”
Greaser identity
“If I see you in the hall at school or someplace and don’t say hi, well, it’s not personal”
“White trash with long hair”
“Our hair labelled us as greasers, too – it was our trademark. The one thing we were proud of”
“You’re too young” “Everyone in our neighbourhood, even the girls, smoked”
