Chapter 2 Summary & Analysis, litcharts.com). He feels that he is not on the side with all the hotshots. After leaving Pencey, Holden goes to the Penn Station in New York. He wants to contact someone, but does not know who. He could call his older brother D.B. or his younger sister Phoebe. There’s Jane Gallagher a friend from Maine or Sally Hayes. Caulfield makes many excuses for not calling any of them and decides not to, further alienating himself and making him more depressed. During a walk, Holden
The Outsiders- S. E. Hinton Characters Ponyboy Curtis- The novels fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist, and the youngest of all the greasers. Ponyboy’s literary interest and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darrel Curtis- Ponyboy’s oldest brother. Darrel, known as “Darry,” is a twenty-year-old greaser who is raising Ponyboy because their parents died in
exposition but are some characteristics that are usually included un the introduction. "There were once two little girls who saw, or believed they saw, a thing in a forest. The two little girls were evacuees, who had been sent away from the city by train with a large number of other children.", is the first few sentences from "The Thing in the Forest" (Byatt, 302). The sentence describes the situation the girls are in and the fact that the story is mainly about two little girls. Rising Action is