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    <title>The Outsiders Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Outsiders Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[    We know that Ponyboy Curtis is the most sensitive and intelligent...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/outsiders/q-and-a/quote-significant-passage-that-reveals-outsiders-85719</link>
        <description><![CDATA[    We know that Ponyboy Curtis is the most sensitive and intelligent member of the greaser gang in Susan E. Hinton's teen novel, The Outsiders. He loves movies, reading, sunsets and his brothers, Sodapop and Darry, as well as his best friend, Johnny Cade. He is also the narrator, and the final paragraph of the book repeats the first lines from the opening chapter, thus completing the cycle of the story and informing the reader that it is...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is pony's observation about people when they are asleep?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what is pony's observation about people when they are asleep?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:43:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Randy Adderson may well be the first Soc to ever set foot in the Curtis...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Randy Adderson may well be the first Soc to ever set foot in the Curtis house in Susan E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders. Randy decides to pay a visit after Ponyboy is hurt in the rumble, but Pony has just awakened after being unconscious for three days. He hasn't had the time or inclination to clean the house before Randy's visit, and there is little evidence that the brothers would have cared. After all, Randy is one of the Socs who attacked...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:30:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    The narrator and protagonist of Susan E. Hinton's teen novel, The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    The narrator and protagonist of Susan E. Hinton's teen novel, The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis is the youngest member of the greasers, a youthful gang who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. Sensitive and intelligent, he is almost an outsider within his own group, who continues a running feud with the upper-class Socs, "rich kids" with "Mustangs and madras."    One night at the drive-in theatre, Ponyboy meets Cherry Valance, a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:21:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Ponyboy is different from all the other greasers in the Susan E....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Ponyboy is different from all the other greasers in the Susan E. Hinton teen novel, The Outsiders. He likes school--he even skipped a grade and was promoted to high school at a young age. He is an avid reader and shows talent as a writer. He loves watching movies and often goes alone since his other friends don't enjoy them much. Unlike the other greasers, he is quiet and sensitive; he rarely reveals his inner thoughts--except to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:34:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Unlike the other tougher greaser gangs in the Susan E. Hinton...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Unlike the other tougher greaser gangs in the Susan E. Hinton novel, The Outsiders, the Curtis brothers' gang is more like a family--

... just small bunches of friends who stick together... you take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for your members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack.

The brothers--Darry, Sodapop and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:09:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    I assume you are speaking of the death of Cherry's boyfriend,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    I assume you are speaking of the death of Cherry's boyfriend, Bob.
    Cherry Valance is a cheerleader who drives a Corvette and dates Bob Holden, one of the most popular of the Socs in Susan E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders. According to Cherry, Bob "could be sweet sometimes," but when he gets drunk, he becomes dangerous. After beating Johnny Cade severely some months before, Bob and his friends come upon Johnny and Ponyboy in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:58:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Outsiders, describe the greasers' relationships with one another.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Outsiders, describe the greasers' relationships with one another.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:43:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[          To answer this question, think about the difference...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[          To answer this question, think about the difference between Ponyboy and Johnny. Remember, Ponyboy says that Johnny’s father often beats him. Johnny does not have siblings that he is close to. Ponyboy’s brothers stand up for him, protect him, take care of him. Ponyboy’s brother feels the need to protect his family so strongly that he gives up his own hopes and dreams to raise his younger brothers. Do you think...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:46:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[He means that he and Ponyboy know each other well enough that they...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[He means that he and Ponyboy know each other well enough that they didn't even have to talk to know that the other one was thinking.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:42:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    When Ponyboy and Two-Bit stop at the Tastee Freeze for a Coke in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    When Ponyboy and Two-Bit stop at the Tastee Freeze for a Coke in Chapter 7 of Susan E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders, "the blue Mustang that had been trailing us for eight blocks pulled in." Out stepped Randy Adderson, one of the Socs who had beaten Johnny and later tried to drown Ponyboy in the park. Although Pony wanted to run, Two-Bit held firm.

"You know the rules. No jazz before the rumble," he said to the Socs.

But Randy only...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:17:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Dallas Winston is the toughest greaser of the bunch in Susan E....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Dallas Winston is the toughest greaser of the bunch in Susan E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders. "Tougher, colder, meaner," than all of Ponyboy's other friends, Dallas has eyes "cold with a hatred of the whole world." The local police has a file on him, and he "lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids--he did everything." With this type of resume, Dally can hardly be called gallant.    Yet, while Ponyboy and Johnny hid...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:36:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Ponyboy and Johnny made their escape following the death of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Ponyboy and Johnny made their escape following the death of the Soc, hopping a freight train to an old abandoned church on Jay Mountain outside of Windrixville in the Susan E. Hinton teen novel, The Outsiders. The boys had jumped from the train just before dawn, and Pony walked up a nearby road until he ran into a farmer who gave him directions to Jay Mountain. Tired after a long walk uphill, the two boys fell asleep immediately on the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:09:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Ponyboy said this, because they have a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Ponyboy said this, because they have a close relationship. Anyone who has a best friend knows that at times they can finish their friend's sentences. They can almost get into their heads. When someone says something funny you laugh, because you know your friend is thinking the same thing. They understand each other on many levels. It's as if they are becoming a mirror image of you, which they may start to do....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:50:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Since Johnny died, Dally " couldnt live with it" so he robbed the place...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since Johnny died, Dally " couldnt live with it" so he robbed the place so that he could lash out on something, and also he wanted to die, Because he lost the person he cares about most]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:45:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[(Outsiders)
What does Johnny mean when he says Ponyboy's family is funny?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[(Outsiders)
What does Johnny mean when he says Ponyboy's family is funny?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:35:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Ponyboy mean when he says " Johnny and I understood each other...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Ponyboy mean when he says " Johnny and I understood each other without saying anything"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:20:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    During Johnny and Ponyboy's exile in the old church on Jay...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    During Johnny and Ponyboy's exile in the old church on Jay Mountain in Susan E. Hinton's teen novel, The Outsiders, Ponyboy read aloud to Johnny from his favorite novel, Gone With the Wind. Johnny became an even bigger fan of the book than Pony, identifying particularly with the Southern gentlemen.

    "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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:32:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    The Mustang-riding leaders of the small gang of Socs who torment...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/outsiders/q-and-a/who-demands-that-cherry-not-seen-with-greasers-69767</link>
        <description><![CDATA[    The Mustang-riding leaders of the small gang of Socs who torment Johnny and Ponyboy in the Susan E. Hinton teen novel, The Outsiders, are Bob and Randy. Bob is Cherry's handsome boyfriend, and he wears the rings that identifies him as Johnny's attacker some months earlier. It is Bob that will eventually be killed when Johnny stabs him while coming to Ponyboy's rescue. However, it is not Bob that demands that the greasers leave their...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:37:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Cherry is the beautiful cheerleader Soc who befriends Ponyboy in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Cherry is the beautiful cheerleader Soc who befriends Ponyboy in the Susan E. Hinton teen novel, The Outsiders. She recognizes the differences in the boys quickly and reveals her feelings about them to Ponyboy, Johnny and Two-Bit at the drive-in and during their walk afterward. She refers to greasers generally as "more emotional" than her Soc friends.
DALLAS WINSTON. Cherry identifies Dally immediately as a greaser, calling him "trash"...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:12:53 PST</pubDate>
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