Outsider Quotes H/W
Quote 1: “How’d you like that haircut to begin just below the neck?” Chapter 1, pg.
This was a death threat made by a Soc to Ponyboy. He had just walked out of the movie theater and was on his way home, when he was jumped by a red corvair. Five Socs jumped out of the corvair. They proceded to surround him and make the threat. It meant “do you want to die.”
Quote 2: “And you can’t win against them no matter how hard you try, because they’ve got all the breaks and even whipping them isn’t going to change that fact.” Ch. 1, pg. 11
Quote 11: “The fight for self-preservation had hardened him against caring.” Chapter 4, pg. 59
Dally had to fight for his life in New York, it was a a fight for self-presentation. He had seen so many things that he shoudnlt have, and it had hardened him to the point where he didn’t care anymore.
He didn’t care if anyone loved him or not
Quote 12: “This church gave me a kind of creepy feeling. What do you call it? Premonition?” Chapter 4, pg. 67
 When Ponyboy and Johnny walked into the church they felt a creepy feeling, Premonition. They were hiding out here so the police wouldn’t find them, because Johnny was on the run for murder.
Quote 22: “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.” Chapter 8, pg. 121
This was Johnny’s complaint. He was going to die and he realized that he wanted to do more in his life than what he had. He thought that it wasn’t fair
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Quote 29: “I had the knife. I killed Bob.” Chapter 11, pg. 165
 This is what Ponyboy said when he was delirious. He thought that he killed bob and that Johnny was still alive. He snapped out of it laterÂ