Language Arts-The Outsiders Chapter 12 Questions – Flashcards

The circumstances that Ponyboys teacher is referring to is that he has missed a lot of school and if he comes up with a good semester theme he will pass Ponyboy with a C grade. The circumstances Ponyboy thinks that his teacher is referring to is that he was goofing up because he was in a lot of trouble.

Ponyboy doesn't feel scared when the Socs approach him and he threatens him with a broken bottle because he started to turn into the rest of the people in the gang, a real greaser who likes to pick fights when Ponyboy was never like that and hated fights and never found a reason for them. This is a dramatic change from the Ponyboy that we have seen up until this point because the Ponyboy from the beginning was a smart kid who would get really good grades in all his subjects, was interested in books, and art, things that all the other Greasers didn't really care for.

Darry is encouraging Ponyboy not to fall into an apathetic state where he feels sorry for himself.

Sandy had returned the letter Soda had sent her unopened.

Darry and Pony are always arguing. Sodapop sees both sides, however both Darry and Pony try to make him pick a side.

A guy that will really listen to people, listen and care about what their saying.

Johnny was special because he still believed there was good in the world after all he had gone through.

He ends up writing about his Johnny, Dally and his life as a greaser.

Johnny's death.

The title of the book refers to the social position of the Greasers, Ponyboy's "gang". Handicapped by their lower socio-economic status, the Greasers are looked down upon; shut out from the advantages that are open to their more wealthy counterparts, the Socs. They are the "outsiders", the ones for whom access to opportunity is perpetually more complicated, because of preconceptions and stereotypes. One of the central themes of the story, however, is that, underneath it all, the Greasers and the Socs are more alike than they are different. As Cherry Valance observes to Ponyboy, "things are tough all over", and, after talking with her, Ponyboy realizes that there are individual differences within both groups, and, despite the gulf that separates the classes, they all "see the same sunset"