Which two characters do you find the most likable? Which is the most interesting to you? What makes those characters stand out? What are readers waiting to find out by the end of Chapter 5 of The Outsiders? What events keep them from learning how the story's conflict will be resolved?

Predict how all of the conflicts in The Outsiders will be resolved. Then, for each conflict, predict a complication that could prevent the characters from solving the problem.

Can characters act as symbols in a novel? What about events? Settings? Identify an element in The Outsiders that is not an object and explain what it could symbolize.

Based on what you've read so far, would you recommend The Outsiders to a friend who is looking for a good book to read? Why or why not?

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.