Notes

page 132- "WHEN I WOKE UP it was light. It was awfully quiet. Too quiet. I mean, our
house just isn't naturally quiet." - shows tension because the house being quiet isnt a natural thing so therefor there could be something wrong to have it be silent.
INTRO- Despite there being no lack of tense, dramatic scenes in chapters five through eight of “The Outsiders,” few scenes, in particular, have stuck out and encoded themselves into the reader’s memory because of the author’s use of descriptive adjectives, similes, and symbolism to make them more dramatic.
- After Johnny’s death, Ponyboy wanders alone for hours until a man offers him a ride. The man asks Ponyboy if he is okay and tells him that his head is bleeding. Ponyboy feels vaguely disoriented. At home, he finds the greasers gathered in the living room and tells them that Johnny is dead and that Dally has broken down. Dally calls and says he just robbed a grocery store and is running from the police. The gang rushes out and sees police officers chasing him. Dally pulls out the unloaded gun he carries, and the police shoot him. Dally collapses to the ground, dead. Ponyboy muses that Dally wanted to die. Feeling dizzy and overwhelmed, Ponyboy passes out.

When Ponyboy wakes, Darry is at his side. Ponyboy learns that he got a concussion when a Soc kicked him in the head during the rumble, and that he has been delirious in bed for three days.