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People
Events
Decisions
What Would Happen If?
Why Did That Happen?
100
He is a lost puppy that has been kicked too many times.
Who is Johnnycake/Johnny Cade?
100
A fight between the Greasers and Socs that included Tim Shepard's gang.
What is a/the rumble?
100
He chose to turn himself in to the police when Dally came to the church.
What did Johnny choose to do when Dally came to the church?
100
Possible Answer- If Johnny didn't die, Dally wouldn't have tried to have himself killed, and Pony wouldn't be in so much grief.
What would have happened if Johnny didn't die?
100
Possible Answer- Johnny chose to turn himself in because he wanted to stop the fighting, and he knew he had a chance of getting let of easy because it was only self-defense.
Why did Johnny choose to turn himself in?
200
She is the only main character Soc sympathetic to the Greasers.
Who is Sherryl/Cherry?
200
Dally got brought in and questioned by the cops when Johnny and Pony ran away.
What happened to Dally when Johnny and Pony ran away?
200
He chose not to fight in the rumble because he was sick of it all.
Why did Randy choose not to fight in the rumble?
200
Possible Answer- If Dally chose not to help them in the church fire, Johnny and Pony probably would have died, and no one would have been able to save them. Then Dally would have blamed himself and got himself killed.
What would have happened if Dally didn't come to help Johnny and Pony in the church fire?
200
Possible Answer- Darry and Pony never paid much attention to Soda's feelings because they took it for granted that he never had any.
Why did Darry and Pony suddenly realize that Soda had feelings too?
300
He is the muscleman of the Greasers.
Who is Darry/Darrel?
300
It burned down on Jay Mountain near Windrixville.
Where did the burning down of the church happen?
300
They chose to go to Dally after Bob died because they thought that he could do anything.
Why did Johnny and Pony choose to go to Dally after Bob died?
300
Possible Answer- If Randy had back-stabbed them, then the rumble would be even worse than it already was, and one or two Greasers would be dead.
What would have happened if Randy had back-stabbed them?
300
Possible Answer- Dally got questioned by the cops when Johnny and Pony ran away because he get questioned for everything that happens on Greaser turf.
Why did Dally get brought in by the cops to be questioned when Johnny and Pony ran away?
400
Another main Greaser from a different gang.
Who is Tim Shepard?
400
He went to the movie theaters with Johnny and Dally to watch a movie but met Cherry and Marsha for the first time there.
Where did Pony first see Cherry?
400
Possible Answer- He pulled out a fake heater at the lot because he cared for Johnny, and he didn't like him dying. He also did that because he wanted to be shot to be with Dally.
Why did Dally pull out a fake heater at the lot after he robbed a grocery store?
400
Possible Answer- If the story was told from Darry's point of view, it would include parts about him trying to take care of his siblings, and probably more reflecting on the events that happen in the book.
What would happen if the story was told from Darry's point of view?
400
Possible Answer- Johnny, Dally, and Pony chose to save the kids in the fire because they felt like they started it with a dropped cigarette, and they felt like they had a responsibility to save them.
Why did Johnny, Dally, and Pony choose to save the kids in the fire?
500
He is a minor character that thinks of Pony like a little kid.
Who is Steve Randle?
500
Possible Answer- I would run away like Pony and Johnny if I had shoplifted, or put somebody in the hospital.
Why would you ever run away like Pony and Johnny?
500
Possible Answer- He believed that he killed Bob because he didn't want to tarnish Johnny's memory.
Why did Pony believe that he killed Bob?
500
Possible Answer- If Pony was the one badly injured instead of Johnny, then his siblings would have gotten angry and taken their anger out on the rumble, killed Socs, and put into jail.
What would have happened if Pony was the one badly injured?
500
Possible Answer- Johnny suddenly felt like he didn't want to die because he felt it wasn't fair that he only got 16 years to do whatever he wanted to do.
Why did Johnny suddenly feel like he didn't want to die?