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Text to Text: 'The Outsiders' and 'Bored, Broke and Armed'
Brett Vogelsinger and Katherine Schulten
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Kaos, 23, a member of the Black Disciples whose given name is Ron. "If we're sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain't nothing else to do," he said of the relentless cycle of violence. Credit... Ruddy Roye for The New York Times

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"The Outsiders" was published 50 years ago this spring, just as S.E. Hinton, its teenage author, was graduating from her high school in Oklahoma.

At the time, most fiction for young adults was more about what Ms. Hinton once characterized as "Mary Jane's big date with the football hero" than about reality. "The Outsiders" changed that forever: A novel about gangs and alienated youth, it told a darker, truer tale about adolescence that spoke to its readers in a new way.

In a 1967 essay for the Book Review just after "The Outsiders" was released, Ms. Hinton challenged writers to start respecting young readers. She ended this way:

In this Text to Text lesson plan, we pair a scene from the novel with recent reporting from the South Side of Chicago, where the Times journalist John Eligon spent months with gangs who are " Bored, Broke and Armed." In both pieces, an "insider" gives us a view of the world through the eyes of "outsiders."

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A live interview with current and former gang members about violence in Chicago.

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No matter where or when in history you look, you will find groups of people who are "insiders" and groups who are "outsiders" - the haves and the have-nots, the center of society and the margins.

As Ms. Hinton put it in a recent interview, "That concept of the 'in crowd' and the 'out crowd' is universal. The names of the groups may change, but kids still see their own lives in what happens to Ponyboy and his friends."

Ponyboy's story has spoken to so many over the decades because balancing on a precipice between hope and despair is, for many young people, a daily reality. For most young people coming-of-age, learning to fit in and find their place in the world is a big enough challenge. But for the young men in these texts, gangs, with their promise of brotherhood and belonging, add additional allure and danger.

Ms. Hinton wrote the book as a high school student, living the conflicts that became central to her book. Times reporter John Eligon wrote about Chicago gangs after spending weeks with current and former members. Both pieces raise questions about identity and belonging, manhood and respect - and introduce us to young men who "defy easy caricature" as they wrestle with those issues.

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Key Question: What can we learn by seeing the world through the eyes of outsiders?
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Activity Sheets: As students read and discuss, they might take notes using one or more of the three graphic organizers (PDFs) we have created for our Text to Text feature, which matches often-taught texts with Times articles and other content.

* Comparing Two or More Texts

* Double-Entry Chart for Close Reading

* Document Analysis Questions

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Text 1: Excerpt from The Outsiders, Text 2: Excerpt from "Bored, Broke, and Armed" Chapter 7

... As I lit up, the Socs who had jumped Johnny and me at the park hopped out of the Mustang. I recognized Randy Adderson, Marcia's boyfriend, and the tall guy that had almost drowned me. I hated them. It was their fault Bob was dead; their fault Johnny was dying; their fault Soda and I might get put in a boys' home. I hated them as bitterly and as contemptuously as Dally Winston hated.

Two-Bit put an elbow on my shoulder and leaned against me, dragging on his cigarette. "You know the rules. No jazz before the rumble," he said to the Socs.

"We know," Randy said. He looked at me. "Come here. I want to talk to you."

I glanced at Two-Bit. He shrugged. I followed Randy over to his car, out of earshot of the rest. We sat there in his car for a second, silent. Golly, that was the tuffest car I've ever been in.

"I read about you in the paper," Randy said finally. "How come?"

"I don't know. Maybe I felt like playing hero."

"I wouldn't have. I would have let those kids burn to death."

"You might not have. You might have done the same thing."

Randy pulled out a cigarette and pressed in the car lighter. "I don't know. I don't know anything anymore. I would never have believed a greaser could pull something like that."

" 'Greaser' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual."

"I'm not going to show at the rumble tonight," Randy said slowly.

I took a good look at him. He was seventeen or so, but he was already old. Like Dallas was old. Cherry had said her friends were too cool to feel anything, and yet she could remember watching sunsets. Randy was supposed to be too cool to feel anything, and yet there was pain in his eyes.

"I'm sick of all this. Sick and tired. Bob was a good guy. He was the best buddy a guy ever had. I mean, he was a good fighter and tuff and everything, but he was a real person too. You dig?"

I nodded.

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The young men who call themselves Gangster Disciples skirted by an empty lot. They marched past a "Stop the Violence" mural painted on a corner store, coming to a halt when they saw members of a rival gang, the Black Disciples.

It was late September on a busy South Side intersection, and now tensions were escalating, gang members who were there recalled.

There were glares, they said. Then words.

"You're a rat," a Black Disciple said to one of the Gangster Disciples who he believed had given the police information about him.

Things were about to blow.

It had been exactly 90 days since some of these same men had sat across from one another in an airy church hall to broker peace and confront a hard truth: The gang war they had inherited and were viciously continuing was helping to unravel parts of this city, where the levels of violence were reaching horrific new heights.

... The Times spent several weeks this fall with gang members to get a better understanding of what it means to be in a gang. They were often days of boredom, punctuated by bursts of drama and bravado. Gang life means animated debates over whether the guys on the next block meant to insult you or not. It means worrying over how to make enough for your next meal or your next high. And it means mourning the loss of loved ones, retaliating in their honor, yet wanting the cycle to stop.

Ron, a 23-year-old Black Disciple who uses the nickname Kaos, and for safety reasons asked that his last name not be used, explained the relentless cycle of violence: I've already lost friends. If we are making money, I can ignore the urge to retaliate. "But if we're sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain't nothing else to do," he added.

Still, these are young men who defy easy caricature. They are the sales associates who help you find shoes at a sportswear store or factory workers next to you on the assembly line. They kiss their young children on the lips and cry when someone close to them dies.

And, yes, they do use and sell drugs, and sometimes lash out in inexplicable bursts of violence over disputes like a battle for a girl's attention, or disrespectful words uttered on a rap video posted to YouTube.

Or, as was the case in front of the corner store in late September, over an insult hurled on a busy intersection.

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For Writing and Discussion
1. The article observes that gang members are "young men who defy easy caricature" and that boredom contributes to the cycle of violence in Chicago's neighborhoods. Where do you see similar themes in the novel? What other parallels do you see?

2. Both "Bored, Broke and Armed" and "The Outsiders" are based on firsthand observations. An adage for writers advises us to "write what you know." Why might that be especially important when telling the stories of cultural outsiders? What other outsider narratives can you think of? How were they told?

3. Research shows that, for many, belonging to a gang can fill the role of family. How do both the article and the novel show this? What lines or scenes from the article on this theme echo lines or scenes from the novel? How?

4. In describing how gangs emerged in Chicago neighborhoods, Mr. Eligon writes, "Boys, with little supervision, money or education, formed cliques. They hung out socially, and got into fights and other petty trouble. He continues: "Now they were everywhere and nowhere - gangsters by name, but kings only of corners and blocks." How do power and powerlessness play a part in these two texts? How do these power dynamics contribute to cycles of violence? What questions do the texts raise about manhood? Why?

5. In a section of "Bored, Broke and Armed" called "A Red Hoodie on Enemy Turf," Mr. Eligon writes:

The clique worried that the war was about to flare again, said Antwine White, 24, a Gangster Disciple who is called Weedy. "You just get prepared for the worst," he said. "They can walk over here. We can think it's cool. They shoot."

That defines day-to-day gang life in Chicago. The young men bound around with their chests out, but their heads are on constant swivels, eyeing everything around them.

What does the article reveal about how perceptions and expectations can contribute to cycles of violence? Do you see similar attitudes playing a role in cycles of violence elsewhere, whether in your own personal experience or as you read headlines in the newspaper about conflicts around the world? How?

6. How do both the article and the novel feature people who defy stereotypes of gang members? What can you learn from them?
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Based on what you read in these two articles, list specific steps that law enforcement might take to improve life in communities troubled with a history of gang violence. Which of these steps might make good immediate priorities and which make better long-term goals? Which might work best in a community near you?

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"The Outsiders" at 50

Writing in the Book Review in 2007, Dale Peck reassessed "The Outsiders" on its 40th anniversary. He pointed out that Ms. Hinton's book was in many ways fresh, original, and exciting for young readers, changing the Young Adult genre forever:

Hinton, earnest teenager that she was, wrote to reveal the universality of her Greasers, just as Wright and Ellison did for African-Americans, or Paley and Roth did for Jews.

The review noted, however, that Ms. Hinton also borrowed techniques from other classic books. Mr. Peck writes that these "echoes ... soften the challenging nature of the book's subject matter by wrapping it in references, tropes and language familiar to its adolescent readers, even as they alleviate the fears of those readers' too-earnest parents."

For readers in 2017, is Ms. Hinton's novel still relevant?

Read the essay Ms. Hinton wrote for The Times in 1967 about young adult fiction, and see how much of it still rings true. Then, create an annotated bibliography or a library display of contemporary Y.A. novels that owe a debt to her work because they capture the realities of life for today's 21st-century teenagers, or for "outsiders" or any kind. What would you include? Why?

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Stay Gold

Part of what takes Ponyboy and Johnny beyond stereotypes of gang members is their sensitivity, manifest most memorably in their allusion to Robert Frost's " Nothing Gold Can Stay."

How has Johnny's advice to " stay gold" come to permeate our pop culture? Use Google's search to look at the many ways this phrase has been used to imagine, advertise, joke and encourage. What patterns do you observe in these homages? (Note: if you want to stay in the author's good graces, never say "stay golden.")

Then, consider how poetry still resonates with young people today. For example, watch this video from Favorite Poem Project, in which a young man from South Boston reads a Gwendolyn Brooks poem that shares some of the themes in this lesson plan.

What are your favorite poems? How do they resonate with things you see around you in the world today? Our long-running Poetry Pairing series matches classic poems with Times reporting. What poem and Times article would you pair?

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Defying Stereotypes

When "The Outsiders" first came out, the publishers did not want to use S. E. Hinton's first name, Susan, because it might put off boys who would not normally read books written by women. To this day, many readers assume that because the voice of the novel is male, so is the author.

In what ways have you, like the characters in "The Outsiders" and Ms. Hinton herself, defied stereotypes - of your age group, race, religion, gender or anything else that contributes to who you are? Write a personal essay, or create something, like this artist did, that confronts those expectations.

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Who are the outsiders in your community? In the world at large right now? How can "outsider thinking" enhance or endanger a community?

To investigate questions like these, put the word " outsider" or " outsiders" into Times search and see what comes up. You might find anything from an article about The New High School Outsiders to a video about innovation called The Power of Outsiders to an Op-Ed called Enter the Age of the Outsiders to a review of the annual Outsider Art Fair in New York City.

Discuss your findings with a small group. What do you notice? What patterns or clichés do you find in these reports about those identified as outsiders? Which of these pieces seem most interesting? What stories seem to be missing?

Finally, consider what stories of outsiders in your own community need telling, and brainstorm ways they could be told.

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'Sometimes the Tough Teen is Quietly Writing Stories'

Part of what makes the ending of "The Outsiders " so memorable is that we discover Ponyboy is writing his own story to save his grade in high school and to give an untold perspective he believes people must hear.

The Young Adult author Matt de la Peña helps us see from a similar perspective in more contemporary times in his piece " Sometimes The Tough Teen Is Quietly Writing Stories." In it, he tells a story about a boy he meets when he does a reading at a school - someone the principal calls "a real instigator":

After the session, Joshua came to the front of the stage and asked to speak with me in private. He told me he was born in a prison and that he'd been held back in school. Twice. He didn't belong in junior high anymore. It made him feel like a loser. But he wanted me to know that he wrote stories sometimes. About San Antonio gangs. When he asked if I'd be willing to read the one he'd just finished, I told him I'd love to. "But you'll have to get it to me quick," I said. "They're about to shuttle me to the next school."

What questions would you like to ask Mr. de la Peña? Ms. Hinton? Both are active on Twitter, though it might be a good idea to scroll through their feeds first before you pose questions they may have answered many times in the past.

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Curating an "Outsiders" Museum

"Once you're a fan of 'The Outsiders,' you're always a fan of 'The Outsiders,' writes Hayley Krischer in " Why 'The Outsiders' Lives On: A Teenage Novel Turns 50."

In fact, one 48-year-old fan loves the book so much he wants to turn the house pictured above into an "Outsiders" museum:

On a particularly windy day in the Crutchfield neighborhood here, the writer S. E. Hinton was touring the renovations of the future Outsiders House museum. The rundown Craftsman bungalow was where the Curtis brothers - Darry, Sodapop and Ponyboy - lived in the 1983 Francis Ford Coppola movie based on Ms. Hinton's book "The Outsiders."

The book, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, was arguably one of the most influential young adult books of its time, and leading this tour was the self-described fanboy Danny O'Connor, 48, who made his own contribution to pop-culture history as a member of the 1990s hip-hop group House of Pain.

Mr. O'Connor has been on a quest to find artifacts to include in the museum, amassing a collection of memorabilia from the movie, vintage photographs and hard-to-find editions of the book. Next on his search list, he told Ms. Hinton, 68, was a claw-foot tub like the one 18-year-old Rob Lowe (Sodapop Curtis in the movie) stepped out of with just a towel wrapped around his waist.

If you were curator of the "Outsiders" museum, what would you want to feature? What exhibits would you have? How would you set it up? What special events might you offer? Sketch your ideal "Outsiders" museum, or create a sample exhibit for it. How might your museum or exhibit both satisfy longtime fans of the novel and pique the interest of a new generation?

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Friends and Family
In a post entitled " When Friends Are Like Family," Deborah Tannen illuminates why, like the characters in "The Outsiders," we take some friends into our closest circle and how they become like family. As Ms. Tannen points out, "Holes left by rejected (or rejecting) relatives - or left by relatives lost to distance, death or circumstance - can be filled by friends who are like family."

Write a personal letter to a friend who has become like a family member to you. Just like Ms. Tannen does in her article, use specific anecdotes and memories to express to this person why you see them as family.

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Related: More Text to Text Lesson Plans on Young Adult Literature

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The Enduring Spell of 'The Outisders'
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S. E. Hinton's 1967 coming-of-age novel credited teenagers with a rich interior life. Here, a tribute to the book that created young adult fiction as we know it today.

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IT WAS FRESHMAN year of college and I fancied myself someone, well, fancy. Someone who loved fancy books and fancy men. Fancy bags and fancy restaurants. I was working overtime to appear unfazed, and it was moving along about as smoothly as the Sochi Olympics. Across the Intro to Genealogy classroom sat a boy who looked like a man but was, by virtue of being 19, still a boy - dark hair and dark eyes, a denim jacket so stiff it looked starched. He barely spoke but knew all the answers, while I spoke all the time and knew none.

I was leaving in the spring, transferring to a school that my mother considered more "academically rigorous," and it was my soon-to-be-outta-here sense of abandon that allowed me to approach him one day after class: "Hey, did you know you look like the lead singer of the Cure?"

He looked at me quizzically. "Who's that?" he asked. I stuttered - the fact was, I didn't actually know. I'd seen a photo of Robert Smith in another kid's dorm room and wasn't expecting to be questioned, but instead to receive the kind of insider approval that usually accompanied a display of hipster knowledge. (This was the privilege of not having to consider the consequences of any action, great or small, that is endemic to upper-middle-class white girls everywhere.) I stammered: "Your hair is ... I mean, your faces both kind of look ..." He stared.

I changed tactics.

"I'm transferring," I haughtily informed him.

"Oh, are you?" He jutted his chin out toward me: "O.K., then ... stay gold, Ponyboy."

In that moment, I thought he was the coolest. I thought he was the wittiest. I thought he was the most confusing, and also most likely a genius. I thought being fancy wasn't all it was cracked up to be, then counterargued that he didn't know a rare gem when he saw one. I repeated it all the way down 12th Street: Stay gold, stay gold, stay gold.

IT WOULD BE five years until I discovered that Ponyboy wasn't his invention. (I obtained this knowledge from a looping tattoo on a goth girl's forearm commemorating her dead black cat.) It would be almost 10 years before I watched "The Outsiders," Francis Ford Coppola's classic work of teenage rebellion and Hollywood fantasy, and 15 before I discovered that the mind that conjured it all - 14-year-old Ponyboy and his gang of best friends who loved making trouble almost as much as they loved each other - was that of Susan Eloise Hinton, a.k.a. S. E. Hinton, who was 15 when she began writing the slim but aggressively influential novel that has been a mainstay of high school English classrooms and camp bunks since its 1967 publication. Hinton, 70, is so unassuming on the telephone that I wonder for a full minute after her smiley-voiced husband passes me to her whether I do, in fact, have the right person. ("An interview?" she asks. "Oh, I forgot! No, now is fine.")

I've read a pound of Hinton to prepare. Novels: " The Outsiders"; 1975's " Rumble Fish," the story of a boy who loses his big brother after an incident at a pet store; 1979's " Tex," the story of another boy and another brother who must fend for themselves after their father has left for a rodeo tour. I read the 2007 short story collection " Some of Tim's Stories." I did not read her 1995 children's book, " The Puppy Sister," about a puppy who transforms into a human, which was a mistake because she references it within our first five minutes of conversation. I'd become used to the clipped sentences that define her prose, the beat-poetry rhythm, the plainclothes morality and dalliances with the natural world (from "The Outsiders": "I don't like to hear women get sworn at, even if they deserve it"; from "Tex": "the truck whirled around and slid like a panicked horse"), and I am struck by how much Hinton talks like one of her protagonists, her answers so tight I can finish typing almost before she finishes speaking - except that I can never guess the last word: "I do too much Twitter. But it's good practice," she says. "Especially before you could use so many letters."
Letter From the Editor: Becoming a Man
I start by apologizing. I had to change our first interview time, and when I explain what happened - "I was on set" - I get the feeling from her silence that she has no idea who I am or what I do, something I thought I'd find refreshing, until I realize my entire schtick was predicated on being able to flail and bob and weave and have people trust that I'll make something out of it because I'm, well, me.

My name gives me license, but it was the opposite conviction that made Susie Hinton become S. E., a name chosen for its gender neutrality and formal strength. "My editor felt that reviewers would never pick up a book by a girl and believe she knew what she was talking about, therefore we did that pen name," she says. "To this day, some of the kids think I'm a guy."

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Hinton was born in Tulsa, Okla., where she still lives today. She attended Will Rogers High School, the kind of high school that us Jews imagine when we imagine high schools without Jews. It was this experience, of classic American class disparity and poor-white-from-rich-white segregation, that inspired "The Outsiders." It was published during her freshman year at the University of Tulsa, which was also the year she met the man to whom she is still married. In one of the few photographs of her online from around that time, a young Susie wears dark eyeliner and her two pigtails are decorated with black bows. She's a caricature of a soda-pop teen queen.

While "The Outsiders" is undoubtedly her most famous work, Hinton has as distinct a line of inquiry as can be found from an artist. She explores class conflict, the crushing expectations of masculine identity, the impossibility of getting out from under generations of pain. I haven't felt this much sympathy for white men in years - it turns out that all along what they may have needed most was a teenage girl as their bard.

The boys of Hinton's world have all the trappings of aggressive males: They run in packs, take to the streets at night, start fistfights and carry knives. But they're just as compelling for less conventional reasons: Hinton's boys demand even less of the girls they meet than do the vampires in "Twilight." They're bad boys in name only. Ponyboy recites poetry and watches sunsets. They idolize each other and have all the machismo of Ken dolls.

There is nothing more terrifying to a teenage girl than reciprocated lust. A crush can morph quickly into repulsion when sexual interest is perceived, hence my quick disavowal of the Cuban boy who stuffed his 19-year-old tongue in my ear when I was 17 and asked, in a lilting accent, "May I be the companion in your bed tonight?"

But in an age when our president brags about grabbing women between the legs and our icons are accused of groping at best and drugging at worst, in which SoundCloud celebrities beat their girlfriends or eat Xanax until they die, teenage girls are hard-pressed to find a safe vessel for the wild lust that gives them a fever but can just as quickly scare them straight. This dichotomy hints at the enduring appeal of a book pulsing with teenage boys whose primary value is friendship and whose secondary interest is romance.

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THERE HAS NEVER been a more fitting time to read "The Outsiders." Divisions of race, of gender, of political affiliation have always been profoundly evident in our culture, but now the distinction between two kinds of white men - the rich and the not rich - has created a schism no one seems to know how best to bridge. To reread the book under the current administration is to engage with a parable of sorts, a folk song about the challenges of being a person whose birthright defines him. "The Outsiders" taps into this profound unrest. One of the book's two main social groups is the greasers - a youth subculture composed of low-income kids with a passion for Elvis Presley and so named for the hair product they liberally apply - who are trapped in an identity they did not choose and cannot explain. Their only chance for salvation is staying out of trouble, but this seems as unlikely as reaching across the tracks to take the hand of a pouty Soc (short for socialites, the rich kids) brunette in a well-made cardigan. If aliens looked down on Earth they wouldn't see the difference between a greaser and a Soc, but to the kids themselves there are oceans of distance between what a boy in a letter jacket and a boy in a leather jacket can do.

Hinton's male protagonists are born into penniless homes, where violence is a survival tactic and vulnerability is forbidden. Both rich and poor experience violence as the norm - but it's the poor boys who are punished for it. But for fleeting moments in Hinton's world, they are hopeful and affectionate, their sweaty arms wrapped around each other.

I ask Hinton why she largely writes in the voices of men. "I couldn't find anything to identify with in the female culture of that time," she says. She grew up in a "greaser neighborhood" in Tulsa, where boys fought and girls aspired to get out. "I didn't want to brag about the kind of car my boyfriend had - I wanted to have the car."

It's a beautiful irony that her books, so focused on such a specific place, have given her access to whatever life, and whatever car, she might want. But, with the exception of a few years in the San Francisco Bay Area and brief stints in Spain, she's chosen to remain in Tulsa: "I wanted to keep my life simple because I want to keep my writing simple." She rejects most press, choosing to remain "a citizen of Tulsa, not a celebrity of Tulsa." She also rejects the more academic reads of her writing. Was she leveling a meta-criticism of male privilege? She pauses. "I envy men quite a bit. I never felt like I was a boy, but I wanted to be a boy."

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"THE OUTSIDERS" WAS young adult fiction before young adult fiction was a widely known term, but it was also young adult fiction written by a young adult who treated young people as adults. It ascribed the titular outsiders a full and gleaming interior life, rich with dreams of the future and covert intimacy, not the stilted pop-up book reality of most mass-culture teens. It was this spirit that allowed for everything from John Hughes to "The Baby-Sitters Club," "American Graffiti" to "The O.C.," all of which might be considered its spiritual descendants. It is because of Hinton's work that the average American teen male was revealed to be capable of as much feeling as a tortured housewife or a middle-aged alcoholic - in some cases, even more.

In 1983, the novel was made into a movie. The gang of boys - a cast of soon-to-be stars including Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise - all wore bluejeans and had slicked hair, their biceps exposed as they strutted down the street scrabbling and laughing. Diane Lane played the pretty Cherry Valance, with demure little outfits and a deep-seated desire to see a different world than that of her presumably pastel bedroom. Watching the film now, with the cast at the beginning of their careers, knowing that the Brat Pack would soon be stylish masturbation fodder, it feels deceptively clairvoyant.

Coppola signed on after receiving a letter from a librarian with the signatures of more than 100 middle schoolers asking that he turn their favorite book into a movie. "My feeling is that any time young people ask a favor of me, I always try to do it," he wrote in an email, "and so I read the book and yes, noted that its author, who was only credited as S. E. Hinton, was in fact a 16-year-old girl (a fact that only made me more interested)."

"Young people are deep-feeling emotional beings," he continued. The film shares a legacy with the book: In a world determined to market to the aspirations and insecurities of teens, "The Outsiders" only holds up a mirror. It honors the wild symphony of hormones, doesn't demean anything as puppy love, doesn't create glossy facsimiles of teenagedom. It offers up the thesis that feelings may never be more heavy, deep and real than they are for these people right here and right now. For these boys, facing a murder charge is as immense a terror as the potential of missing out on love. Ponyboy and his friend Johnny are reading "Gone With the Wind," and it's fitting that a melodrama would capture their attention.

Dakota Lindvall, model, in a vintage Helmut Lang T-shirt from the David Casavant Archive, price on request, david-casavant.com, and a John Varvatos henley (worn underneath), $228, johnvarvatos.com. Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello pants, $490. Model's own necklaces. Credit Photograph by Gus Van Sant. Styled by Alastair McKimm

WOMEN WRITING ABOUT men for women have a unique responsibility: to project both our fantasies and fears, our need for a platonic male ideal and our worst projections about what men really want, do and are. It's taken me a decade of writing male romantic leads to stop giving them the flaws of my worst offenders and the soul of Holden Caulfield. I try to create what I'm lonely for, but I only know how to summon that which has hurt me.

Teenage girls hurt worse than anyone, even teenage girls with nicely pressed shirts. It was the role of Cherry Valance that rocketed Diane Lane to mega-stardom as the girl who captures Ponyboy's interest. Her willingness to defy her fancy-pants boyfriend Bob and cross invisible lines to talk to Ponyboy makes her a girl for the history books. Cherry doesn't actually want to date Ponyboy (she's attracted to a boy named Dally, Ponyboy's wilder friend, who eventually gets killed), but the two have a tender, platonic, cross-class relationship that defies unrealistic expectations of happy endings. It's not sexual, but it survives. Lane, who is known for her roles as an adulterer and is unafraid to dabble in danger, worried that the movie was dated even as she was making it. "I remember feeling very concerned - in my pained youthful need to feel perceived as grown-up - that the film was too corny," she wrote in an email. "My father used to say, in general, 'It takes balls to be corny!'"

"One of the bravest things I did was have Cherry say, 'If I see you around school and I don't talk to you, it's not personal,'" says Hinton. "She just couldn't buck her social class." But she also couldn't buck the female compulsion to mend, to serve, to be dazzled by bad behavior. It would seem this desire to wrap your arms around a leather jacket is the emotional foremother of slipping into bed with an angry addict, a lonely fashion photographer, a surfer who pretends he doesn't know you when you see him on the beach, a surly college poet, an itinerant party boy. So many women are like small-animal vets, convinced that the more broken a man is, the more interesting he is as well, and it's stories like Cherry's that make us believe early in life that inside every man who hurls us in the way of danger there's a sensitive protector. Hinton may have wanted to be those men, but most women don't always know who we want to be or who we are allowed to be - and that makes us vulnerable. That makes us scared. That makes a night on the back of someone else's bike seem like an O.K. substitute for the feeling of pedaling.

I'm still thinking about the guy in Intro to Genealogy and the hot shame of getting it wrong in front of someone who seemed to get it right and the years of believing "stay gold" was his and not S. E. Hinton's by way of Robert Frost. Boys are sexy as outsiders, but girls less so. A less discussed privilege of men is being admired for being alone.

IN THE LAST 51 years, "The Outsiders" has been printed 14 million times, in over 30 languages. There's a rock song by the Bravery with the lyric "never had a Cherry Valance of my own." I kissed a boy who actually looked like the lead singer of the Cure and told another to "stay gold" when breaking up with him over text.

When I wrote the men who swept my TV women off their feet, they were always endowed with an element of this "tough boys with secret gooey centers" energy. Because in fiction, anything is possible: The oversexed rage-y paramour becomes the love of your life. A successful artist cares more about your pleasure than he does about selling his work. A drug addict lays down his drug of choice in order to hold onto you. Women writing men who love women give you these gifts.

"I think I wrote 'The Outsiders' at the right age," says Hinton, who considers herself semiretired. "And those over-the-top emotions are how you feel at that age. And kids recognized that. And books are such a mind meld. Names change. Uniforms change. But kids identify that immediately, they understand the concepts of the groups."

It's a simple formula but a profound one: People want to see themselves. Teenagers are people, too. It's lonely to be a half-grown man.

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Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Teacher Overview
Grade 9
Lesson Introduction/Overview
Vocabulary words, definitions, derivatives, and quotations
An alphabetical listing of the ten words in each section is given at the beginning of each section.
The definitions are given in the order that the words appear in the chapters. The part of speech
indicated in the definition corresponds to the way the word is used in the quotation provided
from the chapter. Common derivatives of the words are listed below each definition.
Complete List of Words
A complete list of words is provided in alphabetical order.
Fill-in-the-Blank Activity
The sentences in this activity correspond to the sequence of events in the chapters. Many of the
sentences require students to add an inflectional ending or use another form of the word to
correctly complete the sentence, adding a higher level of thinking to the lesson. It would also be
helpful to discuss with students the grammatical function of the vocabulary word in each
sentence.
Multiple Choice Exam
The students are tested on 25 of the words, encouraging them to study all 50 words to be ready
for the test. Teachers might also require students to use words correctly in an original sentence
that they create.
Writing Activity
This essay assignment is designed to complement the vocabulary study and is intended to be
used after students complete the novel. Since the writing activity is based on a specific passage,
it is suitable for a timed writing activity. Students should be encouraged to use the new
vocabulary from this lesson in their essays.
Acknowledgment
The words, definitions, and quotations are presented in the order in which they appear in Speak
edition, published by the Penguin Group, New York, 1995.
Materials and Resources:
* copies of lesson for each student
* copies of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
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Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders
Teacher Overview
Alphabetical Listing of Words
acquitted
affection
aloofness
amplifier
asset
bawling
belted
bewildering
brawn
circumstances
clammy
clobbered
contemptuously
daze
delinquent
delirious
determined
doggedly
faltered
gallant
groggy
haze
heaved
hesitation
hollered
idolized
imploringly
indignantly
irresistibly
juvenile
madras
mounting
nonchalantly
opponents
passionately
perspiration
pleading
premonition
quivering
reckless
reputation
rumble
slinging
smarting
sophisticated
stocky
stricken
sympathetic
triumph
vaguely
Answer keys for the sentence completion and multiple choice
quizzes for this lesson are not included in open source materials.
As the teacher of record, you may obtain copies of these answer
keys by sending a message from your school email address to the
NMSI help desk at[email protected] Include your name, course taught, the name of your school, and your city and state. Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US. English Vocabulary Study The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton Note: The words in each section are listed in alphabetical order. The words, definitions, and quotations are presented in the order in which they appear in Speak edition, published by the Penguin Group, New York, 1995. List 1 asset bawling clammy heaved madras perspiration reckless smarting stocky sympathetic 1. asset (as-et) n. a useful and desirable thing or quality derivatives: assets "Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next" (3). 2. clammy (klam-ee) adj. covered with a cold, sticky moisture; cold and damp derivatives: clammier, clammiest "I could feel my palms getting clammy and perspiration running down my back" (4). 3. perspiration (pur-spuh-rey-shuhn) n. a salty, watery fluid secreted by the sweat glands of the skin, especially when very warm as a result of strenuous exertion; sweat derivatives: to perspire "I could feel my palms getting clammy and perspiration running down my back" (4). 4. madras (mad-ruhs, muh-dras, muh-drahs) adj. made of or resembling a light cotton fabric of various weaves, especially one in multicolored plaid or stripes, used for shirts, dresses, jackets, etc. derivatives: none "He had on a madras shirt" (5). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US. Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders 5. smarting (smahrt-ing) v. to feel a sharp, stinging pain, as in a wound derivatives: smarted, smarts "I was smarting and aching and my chest was sore" (7). 6. bawling (bawl-ing) v. to cry or to wail lustily derivatives: bawls, bawled "I was so nervous my hands were shaking and I wanted to start bawling" (7). 7. reckless (rek-lis) adj. utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless derivatives: recklessly "[H]e has a finely drawn, sensitive face that somehow manages to be reckless and thoughtful at the same time" (7). 8. sympathetic (sim-puh-thet-ik) adj. characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy, which is the fact or power of sharing the feelings of another, especially in sorrow or trouble derivatives: sympathy, sympathetically "His eyes are dark brown-lively, dancing, recklessly laughing eyes that can be gentle and sympathetic one moment and blazing with anger the next" (8). 9. heaved (heev-d) v. to throw with effort, force, or violence derivatives: heave, heaves, heaving "Our gang had chased the Socs to their car and heaved rocks at them" (9) 10. stocky (stok-ee) adj. of solid and sturdy form or build; thick-set and, usually, short derivatives: stockier, stockiest "He was about six feet tall, stocky in build, and very proud of his long rusty-colored sideburns" (9). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders List 2 belted hesitation hollered irresistibly nonchalantly opponents reputation rumble slinging stricken 1. irresistibly (ir-i-zis-tuh-buhl) adv. not resistible; incapable of being resisted or withstood derivatives: irresistible "Everything he said was so irresistibly funny that he just had to let the police in on it to brighten up their dull lives" (10). 2. rumble (ruhm-buhl) n. Slang. a gang fight derivatives: rumbles "A rumble, when it's called, is usually born of a grudge fight, and the opponents just happen to bring their friends along" (11). 3. opponents (uh-poh-nuhnt) n. a person who is on the opposite side in a game, context, controversy, or the like; an adversary derivatives: opponent "A rumble, when it's called, is usually born of a grudge fight, and the opponents just happen to bring their friends along" (11). 4. reputation (rep-yuh-tey-shuhn) n. the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; renown derivatives: none "He had quite a reputation. They have a file on him down at the police station" (11). 5. hollered (hol-er) v. to cry aloud; shout; yell derivatives: holler, hollering "He would have hollered at me for carrying a blade if I had carried one" (13). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders 6. hesitation (hez-i-tey-shuhn) n. a delay due to uncertainty of mind or fear derivatives: hesitations, hesitate "If it had been me, . . ., or anyone but Johnny, Dally would have flattened him without a moment's hesitation" (24). 7. belted (bel-tid) v. informal a sharp blow, as with a bat or the fist derivatives: belting, belt "Dally had turned around and belted him so hard it knocked a tooth loose" (24). 8. nonchalantly (non-shuh-lahnt-lee) adv. in a manner coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual derivatives: nonchalant "'Okay,' I said nonchalantly, 'might as well'" (25). 9. slinging (sling-ing) v. to throw, cast, or hurl; fling, as from the hand derivatives: sling "'Looks like Johnny forgot his jacket,' Steve said, slinging it over his shoulder to take it by Johnny's house" (32). 10. stricken (strik-uhn) adj. deeply affected, as with grief, fear, or other emotions derivatives: none "He looked up and across the field with a stricken expression on his face" (32). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders List 3 aloofness bewildering contemptuously gallant groggy haze imploringly passionately premonition sophisticated 1. sophisticated (suh-fis-ti-kay-tid) adj. altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; experienced; not naïve derivatives: also sophisticate "We're sophisticated-cool to the point of not feeling anything" (38). 2. aloofness (uh-loof-nes) n. a quality of being at a distance, especially in feeling or interest; apart derivatives: aloof "Socs were always behind a wall of aloofness, careful not to let their real selves show through" (38). 3. passionately (pash-uh-nit-lee) adv. expressing, showing, or marked by intense or strong feeling; emotional derivatives: passionate "'It ain't fair!' I cried passionately. 'It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!'" (43) 4. haze (heyz) n. 1. An aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors 2. vagueness or obscurity, as of the mind or perception; confused or vague thoughts, feelings, etc. derivatives: hazy "A red haze filled my mind and I slowly relaxed. The next thing I knew I was lying on the pavement beside the fountain, coughing water and gasping" (56). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders 5. contemptuously (kuhn-temp-choo-uhs-lee) adv. showing or expressing disdain; scornfully derivatives: contemptuous "'Oh, shoot, kid'-Dally glanced contemptuously over his shoulder-'I was in the bedroom'" (59). 6. bewildering (bih-wil-der-ing) adj. extremely confusing derivatives: bewilder, bewilderingly "Glory, I thought with a bewildering feeling of being rushed, things are happening too quick" (65). 7. premonition (pree-muh-nish-uhn, prem-uh-nish-uhn) n. a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment; forewarning derivatives: premonitions "But this church gave me a kind of creepy feeling. What do you call it? Premonition?" (67). 8. groggy (grog-ee) adj. dazed and weakened, as from lack of sleep derivatives: groggier, groggiest "I was stiff and sore from sleeping on that hard floor, but I had never slept so soundly. I was still groggy. I pushed off Johnny's jeans jacket, which had somehow got thrown across me, and blinked, scratching my head" (69). 9. imploringly (im-plawr-ing-lee, im-plohr-ing-lee) adv. to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat derivatives: implore, imploring "I looked at Johnny imploringly" (72). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders 10. gallant (gal-uhnt) adj. brave, spirited, noble-minded, or chivalrous derivatives: none "'I bet they were cool ol' guys,' he said, his eyes glowing, after I had read the part about them riding into sure death because they were gallant. 'They remind me of Dally'" (7576). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders List 4 amplifier brawn clobbered daze delinquent doggedly faltered juvenile pleading quivering 1. doggedly (daw-gid-lee) adv. persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious derivatives: none "'My parents,' Johnny repeated doggedly, 'did they ask about me?'" (88) 2. clobbered (klob-erd) v. to batter severely; strike heavily derivatives: clobber, clobbering "Dally was scowling, and from long and painful experience I knew better than to talk to him when his eyes were blazing like that. I'd likely as not get clobbered over the head" (89). 3. pleading (pleed-ing) v. to appeal or entreat earnestly derivatives: plead, pled or pleaded "He was still tall, broad-shouldered Darry; but his fists were jammed in his pockets and his eyes were pleading" (97). 4. daze (deyz) n. a condition characterized by being stunned or stupefied; a state of bemusement derivatives: none "I sat down in a daze" (108). 5. brawn (brawn) n. muscular strength derivatives: none "[O]ne time Steve made the mistake of referring to him as 'all brawn and no brain,' and Darry almost shattered Steve's jaw" (109). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders 6. faltered (fawl-terd) v. to speak hesitatingly or brokenly; to stutter derivatives: falter, faltering "'I won't be able to walk again,' Johnny started, then faltered" (121). 7. quivering (kwiv-er-ing) v. to shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble derivatives: quiver, quivered "He drew a quivering breath. 'I don't want to die now'" (121). 8. juvenile (joo-vuh-nl, joo-vuh-nahyl) n. a young person derivatives: none "Juvenile delinquent, you're no good!" (136). 9. delinquent (dih-ling-kwuhnt) n. a person who is guilty of a misdeed or offense derivatives: delinquency "Juvenile delinquent, you're no good!" (136). 10. amplifier (am-pluh-fahy-er) n. In electronics, a device that takes a small electric signal and converts it into a large one. Amplifiers are used in stereo systems, electric guitars, and loudspeakers. derivatives: amplifiers "'You sure don't need an amplifier," Soda said, and stuck out his tongue at the back of Darry's head (137). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders List 5 acquitted affection circumstances delirious determined idolized indignantly mounting triumph vaguely 1. determined (dih-tur-mind) adj. resolute; staunch; decided derivatives: to determine "Living the way we do would only make him more determined to get somewhere" (138). 2. affection (uh-fek-shuhn) n. fond attachment, devotion, or love derivatives: affections, affectionate, affectionately "He went on to call Curly every unprintable name under the sun-in Tim's way of thinking, terms of affection" (139). 3. mounting (moun-ting) adj. a quality of increasing, heightening, or intensifying derivatives: none "The rest of us waited with mounting tension" (143). 4. triumph (trahy-uhmf) n. a significant success or noteworthy achievement; instance or occasion of victory derivatives: triumphant "He was jerked half around by the impact of the bullets, then slowly crumpled with a look of grim triumph on his face" (154). 5. indignantly (in-dig-nuhnt-lee) adv. in a manner characterized by or expressive of strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base derivatives: indignant "Soda looked back at him indignantly" (159). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders 6. delirious (dih-leer-ee-uhs) adj. to be affected by a more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties characterized by restlessness, excitement, delusions, and hallucinations derivatives: deliriously "'Soda,' I said suddenly. 'What all did I say while I was delirious?'" (159). 7. vaguely (veyg-lee) adv. indefinite or indistinct in nature or character, as ideas or feelings derivatives: vague "One day I started flipping through one of Soda's old yearbooks and came across a picture that looked vaguely familiar" (161). 8. idolized (ahyd-l-ahyzd) v. to regard with blind adoration, devotion, etc. derivatives: idolize, idolizing "Did he have a kid brother who idolized him?" (162) 9. acquitted (uh-kwit-tid) v. to relieve from a charge of fault or crime; absolved of wrongdoing derivatives: acquit, acquitting, acquittal "Then he said I was acquitted and the whole case was closed. Just like that" (168). 10. circumstances (sur-kuhm-stans-is) n. the existing conditions, situations, or state of affairs surrounding and affecting an agent derivatives: circumstance "'You're failing this class right now, but taking into consideration the circumstances, if you come up with a good semester theme, I'll pass you with a C grade'" (169). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders Fill-in-the-Blank Activity The Outsiders Using the words below, fill in the blanks with suitable vocabulary choices. Each word or its derivative is used once. List 1 asset bawling clammy heaved madras perspiration reckless smarting stocky sympathetic 1. Soda is the most everyone else is going through. of the three brothers. He understands what 2. After a fight, the boys are covered in shower. 3. Two-Bit is . They have worked hard and need a and can do plenty of damage in a fight because of his size. 4. People are more likely to think Socs are People have low expectations of greasers. to society than greasers are. 5. Ponyboy pretends he is fine because he does not want to start front of his brother. 6. Ponyboy's hands are with sweat. He is very nervous. 7. Ponyboy's body is he is mugged. from where he is pinned against the concrete when 8. Many of the greasers Ponyboy knows have a them, as though they are not afraid of any danger. 9. Many Socs wear very fashionable 10. The greasers in air about shirts. rocks at the Socs's car as the Socs drive away. Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders List 2 belted hesitation hollered irresistibly nonchalantly opponents reputation rumble slinging stricken 1. Johnny can talk to Dally without fear of getting never hurt him. 2. Darry 3. A violence. at Ponyboy constantly, so Ponyboy stops listening. occurs when two different gangs want to settle a matter with 4. The greasers chase the Socs to their car, drive away. 5. Dally has a stay out of his way. ; Dally would rocks after them as the Socs for being especially violent. Everyone knows to 6. Dally is easily offended, and can go from friendly to violent without any . 7. Steve looks 8. During a fight, when he realizes that Johnny is badly injured. attack each other. 9. Johnny and Ponyboy are excited to sit beside Cherry and Marcia, but they appear to be very . 10. Two-Bit is so funny he even makes police officers laugh. Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders List 3 aloofness bewildering contemptuously gallant groggy haze imploringly passionately premonition sophisticated 1. Ponyboy's mind is unclear, and he sees only a red before he blacks out. 2. The Socs and almost everyone else treat the greasers are not well-respected. 3. Ponyboy's mind is still when he wakes up. He is still tired. 4. The Socs act worldly-wise and else. , but they are just kids like everyone 5. Johnny thinks the soldiers in Gone with the Wind are very they are brave and heroic. 6. Ponyboy speaks feels very strongly about it. . The greasers . He thinks against the injustice of the greasers' situation. He 7. Even though Socs generally cultivate an attitude of and open with Ponyboy. , Cherry is friendly 8. Ponyboy feels events are progressing at a speed. It is almost confusing how he goes from watching a movie to witnessing a murder. 9. Ponyboy has a there, and they do. 10. Ponyboy looks at Johnny be done. about the church. He thinks things might go badly , begging him not to cut his hair, but it has to Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders List 4 amplifier brawn clobbered daze delinquent doggedly faltered juvenile pleading quivering 1. Ponyboy insists convince him otherwise. that Johnny is going to be okay. No one can 2. People think that all greasers are the law. because many of them break 3. Darry does not need an understand him well enough without one. 4. Dally is willing to 5. Darry is to make sure he is heard. His friends anyone who tries to hurt Johnny. silently with Ponyboy to forgive him for being so strict. 6. Johnny lies in his hospital bed, drawing shaky, breaths. 7. Darry is so strong that sometimes people cannot see his brains but only see his . 8. Johnny's bravery is afraid to think about that. when it comes to thinking about his own death. He 9. Ponyboy has been in a His situation is very unclear. 10. Ponyboy's legal case is considered in a ever since coming home from the hospital. court because he is a minor. Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders List 5 acquitted affection circumstances delirious determined 1. Johnny idolized indignantly mounting triumph vaguely Dally. Dally is Johnny's hero. 2. Ultimately, Ponyboy is allowed to stay together. 3. Ponyboy and his brothers are anything to separate them. of any wrongdoing, and the brothers are to stay together. They do not want 4. Though Ponyboy and his friends face challenges, they stand by each other. Their friendship increases along with their difficulties. 5. Dally's face wears an odd look of important battle. as he dies, as though he has won an 6. Darry shows his for his brothers by nagging them and making sure they are doing what they ought to do. He cares a great deal for them. 7. The in which the greasers live are difficult. They have to deal with many challenging situations. 8. Ponyboy refuses to eat anything while he is he is being offered is bologna. because he thinks the food 9. Ponyboy remembers his sickness only his memory. . Hardly any of it is clear in 10. After Johnny's death, Ponyboy insists wrong, and gets upset when someone suggests otherwise. that Johnny has done no Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders Multiple Choice Exam The Outsiders 1. asset a. b. c. d. e. prudent benefit violable honorable flashy 6. stocky a. b. c. d. e. short angry thickset quick enormous 2. perspiration a. work b. inspiration c. breathing d. sweat e. fear 7. irresistible a. charming b. vivid c. irritating d. heavy e. funny 3. bawling a. bowling b. yelling c. mocking d. blushing e. crying 8. opponents a. hoodlums b. fighters c. brothers d. enemies e. gangs 4. reckless a. careless b. safe c. gallant d. dangerous e. clean 9. reputation a. representative b. renown c. character d. suggestion e. rumor 5. sympathetic a. symmetrical b. kindred c. weak d. dreamy e. compassionate 10. hesitation a. confusion b. hazy c. thought d. delay e. bargain Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders 11. nonchalantly a. indifferently b. hopefully c. triumphantly d. happily e. distantly 16. premonition a. prayer b. forewarning c. rule d. apprehension e. calamity 12. sophisticated a. cool b. smart c. ignoble d. experienced e. easy 17. imploring a. staying b. hurrying c. begging d. despising e. exploding 13. aloof a. b. c. d. e. 18. gallant a. kind b. timid c. accommodating d. heedless e. chivalrous happy distant stupid cool slow 14. passionate a. amorous b. present c. anger d. friendly e. emotional 19. brawn a. b. c. d. e. 15. contemptuously a. shyly b. scornfully c. cruelly d. politely e. ridiculously 20. acquitted a. absolved b. law office c. stopped d. left e. blamed muscles stupidity absorbent strength fearsome Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders 21. circumstances a. situation b. precedence c. orderly d. existence e. negativity 22. indignantly a. unjustly b. angrily c. rudely d. poorly e. defensively 23. triumph a. tragedy b. secret c. forfeit d. victory e. comedy 24. faltered a. uncertain b. dangled c. quivered d. stumbled e. stuttered 25. delinquent a. criminal b. rough c. reformatory d. late e. irresponsible Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US Vocabulary Study: The Outsiders Writing Activity In The Outsiders, Johnny thinks that the soldiers in Gone with the Wind are gallant. Explain how you would define the term "gallant," and discuss whether any of the characters in The Outsiders are gallant. Use the text, including the excerpts below, to support your definition and to support your claim about the characters. "We pushed open the door to the back room and found four or five little kids, about eight years old or younger, huddled in a corner. One was screaming his head off, and Johnny yelled, 'Shut up! We're goin' to get you out!' The kid looked surprised and quit hollering. I blinked myself-Johnny wasn't behaving at all like his old self. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the door was blocked by flames, then pushed open the window and tossed out the nearest kid. I caught one quick look at his face; it was red-marked from falling embers and sweatstreaked, but he grinned at me. He wasn't scared either. That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes. He looked like he was having the time of his life. . . . "I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost falling, coughing and sobbing for breath. Then I heard Johnny scream, and as I turned to go back for him, Dally swore at me and clubbed me across the back as hard as he could, and I went down into peaceful darkness" (93). "I looked at Darry. He wasn't going to be any hood when he got old. He was going to get somewhere. Living the way we do would only make him more determined to get somewhere. That's why he's better than the rest of us, I thought. He's going somewhere. And I was going to be like him. I wasn't going to live in a lousy neighborhood my whole life" (138). "Nobody would write editorials praising Dally. Two friends of mine had died that night: one a hero, the other a hoodlum. But I remembered Dally pulling Johnny through the window of the burning church; Dally giving us his gun, although it could mean jail for him; Dally risking his life for us, trying to keep Johnny out of trouble. And now he was a dead juvenile delinquent and there wouldn't be any editorials in his favor. Dally didn't die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday" (154). Copyright © 2013 National Math + Science Initiative. This work is made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/deed.en_US

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Plus: 10 reasons teachers love this book

I have a black-and-white poster of The Outsiders in my classroom. One year, I decided to photocopy my picture, cut off my head, and snuggle it in between Darry and Steve. And then I laminated it, so it's never comin' off! My students don't always notice it right away, but when they do, they crack up to see me with the Greasers.

Obviously, you can tell I love The Outsiders. So imagine my excitement when I found out just yesterday that a new museum, located at the bungalow-style house where author S. E. Hinton's Curtis brothers lived in the 1983 movie The Outsiders, will open in late summer or early fall!

The Outsiders House Museum is located at 731 N. St. Louis Ave. and will be open by appointment 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Owned by House of Pain hip-hop artist, Danny O'Connor, construction crews have spent several months restoring and preparing the house for its new life. Inside, visitors will tour the house, see book and movie memorabilia, and browse a retail shop for serious fans, of which there are thousands... including every single student at my middle school.

Seriously, what is it about students and The Outsiders? I asked teachers this question: Do you still teach The Outsiders and why? Here are some of those teachers' comments, including several that shared content areas they address with the novel.

1. "Yes, because it is a classic and because we have the opportunity to discuss tolerance, stereotypes, and other points of view."

2. "Because I can teach all the elements of fiction, character development and nearly all figurative language with this read that every student can relate to their own lives and how they treat others no matter what side of town they are from."

3. "Yes, because my students LOVE it. I was thinking of giving it a rest, but the majority told me it was their favorite book this year, and when a book touches kids like that, I have to keep it in the repertoire."

4. "Absolutely! We really focus on symbolism of eye colors, colors of hair, and numbers. Characterization done by a biased point-of-view. And stereotypes."

5. "The last few pages are well-written, especially when Pony has his epiphany that he can be the voice for the voiceless. That idea is powerful, and this coming year I want to do a project connected to that idea."

6. "I found that kids of all cultures could relate to it. The last time I taught it, I was at an all-girls school, and I liked the fact that it was (written by) a female author. We also did a writing project in which my students rewrote a scene from the book as if all the main characters were girls."

7. "I moved to a new school in a new state and hadn't taught The Outsiders since 1995. I was absolutely AMAZED how it spoke to my 7th graders in 2018. They were engaged from page one and did a wonderful job discussing the themes in the novel: empathy, peer pressure, socio-economic pressure, the concept of family. Most exciting to me, I believe for about ten or so students, this was THE book, the one that caused them to see themselves as readers. My heart melted to watch this happen."

8. "It has become iconic. The references to the novel appear all over in pop culture. Stay Golden is what we want for all."

9. "Yes. My 7th graders love it! Students who have shown no interest in reading will finish the book before the class. They become invested in the characters and show true empathy."

10. "I have been teaching this to my 8th graders for nine years. EVERY year we start out with eye-rolls and "This book is sooooo old!" And EVERY year we finish reading the last chapter out loud together and-without prompting-they ALL say that last line TOGETHER. I swear I tear up EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR."

So even though the book was first published 51 years ago and the movie came out 35 years ago (can you believe it?!), The Outsiders is still a winner. If you don't teach The Outsiders, think about doing so for next year. There's a wealth of lessons and unit plans available for you to adapt to your teaching style and curriculum. If you already teach The Outsiders ... well-all together now-Stay Gold.

Click like and leave a comment to share your experience with The Outsiders. And it's okay to have a different opinion, since some teachers just don't care for it. Share your ideas either way!

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The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton started writing the novel when she was 15 and wrote the bulk of it when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class " Greasers" and the upper-class "Socs" (pronounced -short for Socials). The story is told in first-person perspective by teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis. The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is never explicitly stated in the book.

A film adaptation was produced in 1983 by Francis Ford Coppola, and a short-lived television series appeared in 1990, picking up where the movie left off. A dramatic stage adaptation was written by Christopher Sergel and published in 1990. A stage musical adaptation with a libretto by Adam Rapp and songs by Jamestown Revival is currently in the works as of 2022.

Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen-year-old boy who is a member of a "gang of greasers", is leaving a movie theater when he is jumped by "Socs", the greasers' rival gang. Several greasers, including Ponyboy's two older brothers-the paternal Darry and the popular Sodapop-come to his rescue. The next night, Ponyboy and two greaser friends, the hardened Dally and the quiet Johnny, meet Cherry and Marcia, a pair of Soc girls, at a drive-in movie theater. Cherry scorns Dally's rude advances, but Ponyboy speaks civilly with Cherry, emotionally connecting with a Soc for the first time in his life.

Afterward, Ponyboy, Johnny, and their wisecracking friend Two-Bit begin to walk Cherry and Marcia home, when they are stopped by Cherry's boyfriend Bob, who badly beat up Johnny a few months back. Bob and the greasers exchange taunts, but Cherry prevents a fight by willingly leaving with Bob. Ponyboy gets home at two in the morning, enraging Darry until he suddenly slaps Ponyboy. Pony runs out the door and meets up with Johnny, expressing his anger at Darry's increasing coldness in the wake of his parents' recent deaths in a car crash.

Running away from home, Ponyboy and Johnny wander into a park, where Bob and four other Socs surround them. After some heated talk, Ponyboy spits at the Socs, prompting them to attempt to drown him in a nearby fountain, but Johnny stabs Bob, killing him and dispersing the rest. Terrified as to what to do next, Ponyboy and Johnny rush to find Dally, who gives them money and a loaded gun, directing them to hide in an abandoned church in Windrixville. During their stay there, Pony cuts and dyes his hair as a disguise, reads Gone with the Wind to Johnny, and, upon viewing a beautiful sunrise, recites the poem " Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost.

Days later, Dally comes to check on them, revealing that violence between the greasers and Socs has escalated since Bob's death into all-out city-wide warfare, with Cherry acting out of guilt as a spy for the greasers. Johnny decides to turn himself in and Dally agrees to take the boys back home. As they attempt to leave, they notice the church has caught fire and several local schoolchildren have become trapped inside. The greasers run inside the burning church to save the children, but Ponyboy is rendered unconscious by the fumes. At the hospital he discovers that he and Dally are not badly injured, but a piece of the church roof fell on Johnny and broke his back. Sodapop and Darry come to the hospital; Darry breaks down and cries. Ponyboy then realizes that Darry cares about him, and is only hard on him because he loves him and cares about his future.

The following morning the newspapers declare Pony and Johnny heroes, but Johnny will be charged with manslaughter for Bob's death. Two-Bit tells them that the greaser-Soc rivalry is to be settled in a final rumble. Ponyboy and Two-Bit are approached by a Soc named Randy, Bob's best friend, who expresses remorse for his involvement in the gang war, lacks confidence about the rumble ending the feud, and says he will not participate.

Later, Ponyboy visits Johnny at the hospital, where he is in critical condition. On their way home, Pony spots Cherry and they talk. Cherry says she is unwilling to visit Johnny in the hospital because he killed her boyfriend. Pony calls her a traitor, but after she explains herself they end on good terms. After escaping the hospital, Dally shows up just in time for the rumble. The greasers win the fight. Afterward, Pony and Dally hurry back to the hospital to see Johnny, but he dies moments later and a maniacal Dally runs out of the room. Pony returns home that night feeling confused and disoriented. Dally calls the house to say that he has robbed a store and is running from the police. The greasers find Dally deliberately pointing an unloaded gun at the police, causing them to shoot and kill him. Overwhelmed, Ponyboy faints and is sick in bed for many days due to the resulting concussion from the rumble. When the hearing finally comes, the judge frees Ponyboy from responsibility for Bob's death and allows Pony to remain at home with Darry and Soda.

Ponyboy returns to school, but his grades drop. Although he is failing English, his teacher, Mr. Syme, says he will pass him if he writes a decent theme. In the copy of Gone with the Wind that Johnny gave him before dying, Ponyboy finds a letter from Johnny describing how he will die proudly after saving the kids from the fire. Johnny also urges Ponyboy to "stay gold". Ponyboy decides to write his English assignment about the recent events, and begins his essay with the opening line of the novel: "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home".

Major characters

Ponyboy Curtis: The narrator and the youngest Curtis brother, Ponyboy is 14 years old, and gets good grades and runs track. He's the most sensitive of the greasers (besides Johnny), and enjoys reading books.

Sodapop "Soda" Curtis: The middle Curtis brother, 16 years old, a popular high school dropout who works at a gas station. He's often described as being attractive and comedic, the reason for his popularity.

Darrel "Darry" Curtis: The oldest Curtis brother, 20 years old, who has been caring for his brothers since their parents died in a car crash. He is the unofficial leader of the gang.

Johnny Cade: Ponyboy's best friend. 16 years old, who is extremely quiet and lives with his alcoholic, neglectful, and abusive parents

Dallas "Dally" Winston: A 17-year-old juvenile delinquent, he is the roughest and most volatile of the greasers, but cares more about Johnny than he does anyone else. He lived on the streets of New York City for three years. Carries an unloaded gun.

Keith "Two-Bit" Mathews: A wise-cracking kleptomaniac.

Steve Randle: Sodapop's best friend since grade school.

Timothy "Tim" Shepard: Leader of another greaser gang: an organized downtown one. He is also a friend of Dally's.

Curly Shepard: Tim Shepard's younger brother, mentioned as a friend of Ponyboy's.

Sandy: Sodapop's disloyal girlfriend, who eventually leaves him.

Sherri "Cherry" Valance: Attends the same high school as Ponyboy. Bob's girlfriend.

Robert "Bob" Sheldon: Considered the leader of the Socs. Cherry's boyfriend who is stabbed and killed by Johnny.

Randy Adderson: Bob's best friend and Marcia's boyfriend.

Marcia: Cherry's best friend and Randy's girlfriend.

Paul Holden: Darry's old friend from high school.

David: A member of the Socs who tries to drown Ponyboy in the fountain.

Other characters

Jerry Wood: The schoolteacher responsible for the children who were in the seemingly abandoned church.

Mr. Syme: Ponyboy's English teacher who assigns him a theme to write that becomes the story of the novel itself.

Controversy

The Outsiders was a controversial book at the time of its publication; it is still currently challenged and debated. It was ranked #38 on the American Library Association's Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999. 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. However, in many U.S. schools, the book is part of the English curriculum at the middle- or high-school level.

Critical reception

On November 5, 2019, the listed The Outsiders on its list of the 100 most influential novels.

Ponyboy Curtis appears in Hinton's later novel That Was Then, This Is Now (1971).

The 1983 film adaptation was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, since its release it retains a fanbase. The film is notable for casting young actors before their rise to fame, which includes C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, and Diane Lane.

A television series based on the characters of the novel and film aired in 1990. It consists of a different cast playing the same characters. It picks up right after the events of the film's ending and lasted only one season.

In Rockstar Games' 2006 video game , The Greasers and the Preppies/Preps, are based on The Outsiders.

A stage musical based on both the novel and film has been in the works as of 2022 and is expected to hold its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in February/March 2023. The production will be directed by Danya Taymor from a libretto by Adam Rapp, with songs by Jamestown Revival and music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations by Justin Levine.

Museum and film locations

The Outsiders House Museum opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on August 9, 2019. In 2009, hip-hop artist Danny Boy O'Connor discovered the house that was used for the Curtis Brothers' home. Moving forward O'Connor kept the thought of buying it, which he eventually did in 2016. O'Connor said he bought it sight unseen and when he first went inside that it was falling apart. With the help of friends, the Oklahoma Film and Music Office, the City Council, local business and individuals who volunteered the restoration started. After raising funds the house went through extensive renovations to restore it and maintain its authenticity from the film. A GoFundMe was set up for additional funds, notable donors include Jack White who donated $30,000 and Billy Idol. Also to raise funds, screenings of the film were organized that actor C. Thomas Howell attended. Also in 2016, the street signs on the corner were changed to "The Outsiders way" and "The Curtis Brothers Lane". Since its opening, the museum now contains a collection of The Outsiders memorabilia. Aside from Howell, between its restoration and opening, other stars of the films visited this includes Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio, and Matt Dillon. For his efforts on preserving a cultural landmark O'Connor received a key to the city of Tulsa.

In 2022, in Sperry, Oklahoma, the group Upward Sperry restored the now un-operational DX gas station seen in the film. The group's president Gary Coulson said, "It's really growing. I almost hate to say, but it's almost like a cult following. They stream through here - what that does is get people here." With O'Connor they are planning to revitalize Outsiders nostalgia in Sperry.

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The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton started writing the novel when she was 15 and wrote the bulk of it when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published.