Across
- 2. hints at future events in the story.
- 5. this is a central purpose of a novel which often reveals a lesson or observation about life; an important theme in the story is that friendship can be as strong a bond as family.
- 6. the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
- 7. First person narration.
- 8. a Soc cheerleader who befriends Ponyboy
- 11. A Greaser who works at a gas station and is best friends with Sodapop
- 12. Ponyboy's good-natured, good-looking older brother
- 14. transports readers back to an earlier time of the story. This novel flashes back to previous events in the story to help readers understand the characters.
- 15. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
- 17. a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something
- 18. a serious and sensitive Greaser who sees the Greasers as his only family
- 19. a tough Greaser whose real name is Dallas Winston
Down
- 1. Internal conflicts within Ponyboy in relation to his brothers, to gang violence, and to his own identity; external conflicts between the Greasers and the Socs, a rival gang, and between the Greasers and the police.
- 3. occurs when one concrete object represents itself as well as something else that is often more abstract, such as an emotion.
- 4. Ponyboy's oldest brother who is raising Ponyboy.
- 5. A comical Greaser who is known for shoplifting
- 9. After three boys have died, one heroically, Ponyboy Curtis comes to see the pointlessness of violence, to appreciate his older brothers, and to realize that he can control his own life.
- 10. Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest of three orphaned brothers; member of a gang called the Greasers.
- 13. Oklahoma town during the 1960s.
- 16. The narrator and protagonist of the story whose parents have died in a car accident