Vocabulary
Numbly
"I heard our Ford's vvvvvrrrrroooommmmm and thought: Soda's driving."
onomatopoeia
"I'm not going to show at the rumble tonight."
Randy
This character felt stuck between his brothers fighting all of the time.
Sodapop
Who were the three people to do in the novel?
Bob, Johnny, Dally
Give an example of someone being reluctant in the novel.
Johnny and Ponyboy were reluctant about turning themselves in after the murder.
"We really didn't have to twist his arm; Darry loves chocolate cake as much as we do."
Idiom
"She's probably come to tell me about all the trouble I'm causing her and about how glad her and the old man'll be when I'm dead."
Johnny
The Soc that realizes that the fights are stupid.
Randy
Explain Dally's death. What did he do, and why?
He couldn't handle the loss of Johnny. He took his unloaded gun, robbed a store, waited for the cops, and allowed them to shoot him.
What is the definition of the word bolted in our novel?
to run off
"They don't do things like that to heroes. Where's Soda and Superman?"
Allusion
"He killed Bob. Oh, maybe Bob asked for it. I know he did. But I couldn't ever look at the person who killed him."
Cherry
The two characters that spoke about sunsets several time over the whole novel.
Cherry and Ponyboy
Explain how Ponyboy was dealing with the deaths of his friends, especially Johnny's.
He was in denial, and then he started to 'act out.'
Dumbfounded means speechless; disbelieving... what part of speech would it be?
Adjective
Give an example of an idiom (not necessarily from the novel).
"It's raining cats and dogs."
" I feel under the weather today."
"Never could keep that hair back..that's what you get for tryin' to help people, you little punk, that's what you get..."
Dally
Name a static character in the novel. Explain.
Static-stays the same
Two-bit
How can we argue that Ponyboy is a dynamic character?
He realizes that the socs, and everyone else in the world, all have problems.
Give the definition and an example of the term liable from the novel.
likely; legally responsible- Darry was likely to lose custody of his brothers, but he didn't.
Give an example of an allusion.
"They were a regular Romeo and Juliet."
"Johnny is not dead..."
Ponyboy
Who was jealous and ashamed when he saw Paul, the Soc, and why?
Darry- he played ball with Paul. They were friends. Paul has the life that Darry should have had.
Who wrote the poem that Ponyboy memorized? What was the meaning behind it?
Robert Frost- nothing beautiful ever stays that way (nature or humanity)