The Outsiders Analyzing Important Quotations

The Outsiders Analyzing Important Quotations

<p> The Outsiders – Analyzing Important Quotations</p><p>Name: ______Class: ____</p><p>Choose any three of the quotes below. For each choice, explain who said it, what’s happening when it’s said, and why it is important to the novel. Use the chart on the back of the page for your answers. </p><p>1. "How'd you like that haircut to begin just below the neck?"</p><p>2. It's not just money...We're sophisticated to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is real with us."</p><p>3. “You can't win. You know that, don't you? It doesn't matter if you whip us; you'll still be where you were before, at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones at the top with all the breaks. It doesn't matter. Greasers will still be Greasers and Socs will still be Socs. It doesn't matter.”</p><p>4. “I don't know, man. It's just like sometimes I have to get out. It's like I'm the middle man between a tug- of-war or something between you guys. I don't know, I can't take sides. Ponyboy, Darry could've put you in a boys' home, worked his way through college, I'm telling you the truth, Pony.”</p><p>5. "It was my house as much as Darry's, and if he wanted to pretend I wasn't alive, that was just fine with me."</p><p>6. Johnny, you don't know what a few months in jail can do to you, man. You get mean in jail, I just don't wanna see that happen to you like it happened to me, man. Understand?</p><p>7. "I wouldn't mind it so much if there wasn't so much stuff I ain't done yet and so many things I ain't seen. It's not fair. That time when we were in Windrixville was the only time I've ever been away from my neighborhood. "</p><p>8. “Stay gold Ponyboy, stay gold.”</p><p>9. “I was crazy, you know that, Pony? I was crazy for wanting Johnny to stay out of trouble. If he was smart, like me, he wouldn't be in this mess. If he was smart like me, he wouldn't have ran into that church man. You better wise up Pony. You better wise up man. You get TOUGH like me and you don't get hurt!.”</p><p>10. “Dally didn’t die a hero. He died violent and desperate, just like we all knew he’d die someday. But Johnny was right. He died gallant.” Quotation Who said it? Context / Situation Meaning / Importance #</p>

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