Ch. 1-3 Discussion Questions

The Outsiders: Discussion Questions—Chapters 1-3

With a small group of people, answer the following questions with complete sentences. Make sure to answer the questions fully with complete sentences. Have I mentioned to answer with complete sentences?

 

Chapter One
1.  Describe four main characters in the story. 

 
2.  Who are the Socials?  Who are the Greasers? (I am not looking for a list of names but characteristics.)

3.  How do Ponyboy's relationships with Darry and Sodapop differ?  Explain.

4.  Why is the 'gang' important to Johnny?

5.  Do you think Darry loves Ponyboy?  Why does he treat Ponyboy the way he does?

Chapter Two

1.  Who are Cherry and Marcia? Why do they hang-out with greaser boys at the Dingo?

2.  Why doesn't Ponyboy like referring to Sodapop as a dropout?
 

Chapter Three

1.  What does Cherry explain as the difference between the Socs and the Greasers?

2. What does Ponyboy mean on p. 39 when he says "Johnny and I understood each other without saying anything"? 

3.  When and how did Pony's parents die?

 

4. Where does Pony wish he could live? Why would he choose that place over his current home?

5.  Why does Johnny like it better when his father is hitting him?

6.  At the end of the chapter, how does the author foreshadow that bad things are to come?