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J is for Johnny

Johnny is Ponyboy's best friend. He is 16, but he looks more like 14. The gang considers him to be their pet. He ends up killing a Soc named Bob.

"You really killed him, huh, Johnny?"(Hinton 57)

"(Johnny) was the youngest, next to me, smaller than the rest, with a slight build. He had big black eyes in a tan tanned face; his hair was jet-black and heavily greased and combed to the side, but it was so long that it fell in shaggy bangs across his forehead."(Hinton 11)

"A piece of timber caught him across the back-he might have a broken back, and he was burned pretty severely."(Hinton 95)

L is for Liquor

M is for Mickey Mouse

K is for Kid

Mickey Mouse is the dark-gold buckskin horse that only listened to Soda. A guy kept it at the stables were Soda used to work. He loved that horse with all his heart.

Ponyboy is called a kid all the time. He is the youngest in the gang, so the others like to pick on him.

Both Socs and Greasers drink. The group of Socs that attacked Johnny and Ponyboy were drunk and looking for trouble that night. The alcohol makes people do things they wouldn't normally do.

I is for Injured

"'How come you're so mean Mickey Mouse?' Mickey Mouse would just chew on his sleve and sometimes nip him. But not hard. He may have belonged to another guy, but he was Soda's horse."(Hinton 40)

"You're a nice kid, Ponyboy. Do you realize how scarce nice kids are nowadays?"(Hinton 129)

"I couldn't tell her that Soda had bawled all night long after they came and got Mickey Mouse. I had cried too, if you want to know the truth, because Soda never really wanted anything except a horse, and he had lost his."(Hinton 40)

"Dally was grinning at me. 'Kid,you scared the devil out of me. I thought I'd killed you.'"(Hinton 124)

The Greasers and Socs don't get along. They often fight and get injured in the process. Busted knuckles or a broken nose are common for both sides.

G is for Greasers

"What was left of our gang was sitting in the living room. Steve was stretched out on the sofa, his shirt unbuttoned and his side bandaged."(Hinton 153)

"Why do people sell liquor to boys? Why? I know there's a law against it, but kids get it anyway."(Hinton 129)

"Soda had a wide cut on his lip and a bruise across his cheek. There was a band-aid over Darry's forehead and he had a black eye. One side of Two-Bit's face was taped up- I found out later he had four stitches in his cheek and seven in his hand from where he had busted his knuckles open over a Soc"s head."(Hinton 153)

"Greasers are almost like hoods."(Hinton 3) They are poor and wear leather jackets and either boots or tennis shoes."

"You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional."(Hinton 38)

"My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in the back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut. Besides, I look better with long hair."(Hinton 1)

H is for High-class

High-class typically describes the Socs and the way they live. Luxuries are common for them. They have nice cars and have big houses in nice neighborhoods.

"You could tell by the way she said it that her idea of a good time was probably high-class."(Hinton 27)

T is for Two-Bit

"Two-Bit Matthews is the oldest of the gang and the wisecracker of the bunch."(Hinton 9) "He was famous for shoplifting and his black-handled switchblade, and he was always smarting off to the cops."(Hinton 10)

"Two-bit reached into his back pocket for his prize possession. It was a jet-handled switchblade, ten inches long, that would flash open at a mere breath."(Hinton 125)

Z is for FuZZ

"If everybody jumped in the Arkansas River, ol' Two-Bit would be right on their heels."(Hinton 137)

The fuzz is a slang term used by the Greasers referring to the police.

"'Listen, Soda, you and Ponyboy,' Darry said as we strode down the street,'if the fuzz show, you two beat it out of there. The rest of us can only get jailed. You two can get sent to a boys' home.'"(Hinton 137)

"Maybe he had already been worked over by the fuzz and was waiting to get the electric chair since he wouldn't tell where I was."(Hinton 70)

Y is for Young

Certain characters like Johnny and Ponyboy are considered young to the other Greasers.

B is for Bob

"'Sure," I said tiredly,'we're young and innocent.'"(Hinton 26)

"Young hoods-who would grow up to be old hoods."(Hinton 138)

Bob is the Soc that Johnny kills because he and his friends were drowning Ponyboy in a fountain.

"Bob, the handsome Soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still. A dark pool was growing from him, spreading slowly over the blue-white cement."(Hinton 56)

"Then I leaned back and closed my eyes so I wouldn't see Bob lying there."(Hinton 57)

"I can't go see Johnny. I know I'm too young to be in love and all that, but Bob was something special. He wasn't just any boy. He had something that made people follow him, something that marked him different, maybe a little better than the crowd. Do you know what I mean?"(Hinton 129)

C is for Cigarettes

N is for "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

S is for Sodapop

Most of the Greasers smoke cigarettes and a regular basis. Some do it to calm their nerves. Others just do it to look cool.

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a poem by Robert Frost that Ponyboy tells Johnny when they are watching the sunrise in the church.

D is for Darry

Sodapop is the middle Curtis brother. Ponyboy says that he acts a lot like their mother did. The two of them are really close.

"I was shaking. I want a cigarette. I want a cigarette. We had smoked our last pack."(Hinton 57)

"Two-Bit left me sitting on the bench at the bus stop while he went to the gas station to buy some cigarettes."(Hinton 126)

O is for Overworked

"'The mist is what was pretty,'Johnny said. 'All gold and silver.' 'Uhmmmm,' I said trying to blow a smoke ring. 'Too bad it couldn't stay like that all the time.' 'Nothing gold can stay.' I was remembering a poem I'd read once."(Hinton 77)

Darry is the oldest brother in Ponyboy's family. Their parents got killed in a car accident. He acts as a father figure for both of his younger brothers because of this.

"Soda was glaring at him. 'You leave my kid brother alone, you hear? It ain't his fault he likes to go to the movies, and it ain't his fault the Socs like to jump us, and if he had been carrying a blade it would have been a good excuse to cut him to ribbons.' Soda always takes up for me."(Hinton 13)

Darry, Ponyboy's oldest brother, works roofing houses. It is backbreaking labor. The gang often says that he is overworked.

"Darry is six-feet-two, and broad-shouldered and muscular. He has dark-brown hair that kicks out in the front and a slight cowlick in the back-just like dad's-but Darry's eyes are his own. He's got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue-green ice. They've got a determined set to them, just like the rest of him. He looks older than twenty-tough, cool, and smart. He would be real handsome if his eyes weren't so cold. He doesn't understand anything that is not plain hard fact. But he uses his head."(Hinton 7)

"I looked through the door. Sodapop was giving Darry a back-rub. Darry is always pulling muscules; he roofs houses and he's always trying to carry two bundles of roofing up the ladder."(Hinton 16)

"Darry didn't deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty."(Hinton 16)

F is for Fire

The old abandoned church Johnny and Ponyboy were hiding out in caught on fire when Dally took them to Dairy Queen.

Q is for Quiet

"'Oh glory!' he whispered. The church was on fire!"(Hinton 90)

R is for Randy

Johnny is often described as a quiet person. He usually doesn't talk or socialize much. He is quite shy.

"He had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes, and that beating he got from the Socs didn't help matters."(Hinton 12)

Randy is the best friend of the Soc, Bob, that Johnny killed. In the end, he realizes that all the fighting is pointless and decides that he's tired of it.

"'And tonight...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win, you know that don't you?' And when I remained silent he went on: 'You can't win, even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before-at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good-the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing. We'll forget it if you win, or if you don't. Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs.'"(Hinton 116-117)

E is for East Side

P is for Ponyboy

A is for Acrobatics

The East Side of town is where all of the Greasers live. The Socs live on the West Side.

ABC's of The Outsiders

Ponyboy is the main character in the story. He has two older brothers, Sodapop and Darry. They are all three greasers. His parents were killed in a car accident when he was younger.

"You can see it good from the East Side too."(Hinton 130)

"I have light-brown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes. I wish they were more gray, becuase I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I have.(Hinton 1)

"We could all do acrobatics because Darry had taken a course at the Y and then spent the entire summer teaching us everything he'd learned on the grounds that it might come in handy in a fight."(Hinton 136)

"I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live with the actors."(Hinton 1-2)

U is for TUff

W is for Winston

"Tuff means cool, sharp-like a tuff-looking Mustang or a tuff record."

Winston is Dally's last name. "Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten. He was tougher than the rest of us-colder, harder, meaner. The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn't present in Dally."(Hinton 11)

"I leaped up and ran for the door, but it was already open and Soda already had me in a bear hug and was swinging me around. I was so glad to see him I could have bawled. Finally, he sat me down and looked at me. He pushed my hair back.'Oh, Ponyboy, your hair...your tuff, tuff hair...'"(Hinton 97)

V is for Valence

By: Abbey Hensley

Valence is the last name of the Soc girl that Johnny and Ponyboy meet at the drive-in. She was the girlfriend of Bob before he was killed.

"Cherry Valence was sitting in her Corvette by the vacant lot when we came by."(Hinton 127)

"Nobody but Soda could really get me talking. Till I met Cherry Valence."(Hinton 39)

X is for WindriXville

"Marcia grinned at us. She was a little smaller than Cherry. She was cute, but that Cherry Valence was a real looker."(Hinton 25)

Windrixville is the place where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out after Johnny kills Bob the Soc.

"'The first stop will be Windrixville,' Johnny said, laying the gun down gingerly."(Hinton 62)

"'Hop the three-fifteen freight to Windrixville,' Dally instructed. 'There's an old abandoned church on top of Jay Mountain.'"(Hinton 61)

Works Cited

Hinton, S.E. New York: Penguin, 1967. Print.

Table of Contents

A is for Acrobatics

B is for Bob

C is for Cigarettes

D is for Darry

E is for East Side

F is for Fire

G is for Greasers

H is for High-class

I is for Injured

J is for Johnny

K is for Kid

L is for Liquor

M is for Mickey Mouse

N is for "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

O is for Overworked

P is for Ponyboy

Q is for Quiet

R is for Randy

S is for Sodapop

T is for Two-Bit

U is for TUff

V is for Valence

W is for Winston

X is for WindriXville

Y is for Young

Z is for FuZZ

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