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INCREDULOUS: indicating or showing unbelief
VAGUELY: not clear or definite in though, expression, understanding, or expression
NONCHALANTLY: coolly unconcerned or unexcited; casual

Sydney happily skipped home from school, looking at the pretty flowers in Ms. Allbottom's garden. She nonchalantly opened the door to her family's 2 bedroom home and took off her black shoes and walked into the kitchen. Sydney's mother and father were talking over a hot cup of coffee up in the master bedroom. Sydney could vaguely make out what they were talking about. She decided to quietly tip-toe up the hallway stairs to get a better listen. She could perceive her mother saying, "How do you think Sydney and her friends would feel about it though? Do you think she can handel the transition?" Sydney put her ears closer to the door, How I would feel about what? She heard her parents get up, and ran back down to the kitchen. "Hey mom. Hey dad. What were you guys talking about? How would I feel about what? Handel what transition? Am I changing schools or somthing?" Sydney asked, paranoid. Her mother looked at her father and gave him a incredulous eyebrow raise. Her father gave her the same look of unbelief. "What are you talking about?" he finally spoke.

TO BE CONTINUED ...



Q1: Who is the Fuzz?
A1:
The Fuzz is simply slang for the policeman who come control the situation at hand and arrest people.

Q2: Are the names Ponyboy and Sodapop nicknames? Explain.
A2:
The names Ponyboy and Sodapop are not nicknames, they are the boy’s birth given name said so on their birth certificates. Pony’s and Soda’s father was a very creative man and wanted his children to have original names. Ponyboy didn’t like telling people his name for the first time just because they’d give him the reaction of, “you kidding,” but personally he liked his name.

Q3: Who are Cherry and Marcia?
A3:
Cherry and Marcia are Socs that attend the same high school as Ponyboy. They were “tuff” looking cheerleaders that Pony never would have guessed would even think about talking to him. They wore sharp clothes and were very good looking. They were 16 or 17 year old girls who “weren’t of Pony’s kind” but they were very nice to him. They were also stuck up when they needed to be to protect themselves.

Q4: Why does Ponyboy dislike referring to Sodapop as a dropout?
A4:
Ponyboy doesn’t like to reefer to Soda as a dropout because simply cannot stand it. This is because the word “dropout” reminds him of some poor dumb-looking hoodlum wandering the streets breaking streetlights. A drop-out didn’t fit his brother at all. Soda was a happy-go-lucky kind of person and for Pony a drop out didn’t say happy-go-lucky. When Pony told some one his brother was a dropout, it gave them a totally different impression of how Soda actually is like.

Q5: What is Ponyboy comparing Two-Bit to when he calls him a "chessy cat" on page 27? What figure of speech is this besides a simile?
A5:
When Ponyboy calls Two-Bit a “chessy-cat” he is referring to Two-Bit’s grin. He says, “Two-Bit grinning like a Cheesy Cat.” Meaning, Two-Bit’s smile gave off the impression of a large, trying-to-look-innocent, devilish smirk. I think his grin was a “it was kind of funny, but how can you get mad at this happy face” type of look. I think this figure of speech could also be refered to as a metaphor because a metaphor is something regarded to represent something else; a symbol. Cheesy cat is like a symbol in Pony’s mind for Two-Bit.

Q6: What is "a weed" slang for in 1967?
A6:
A “weed” is just a cool or gang term for a cigarette. Pony thought that saying weed was a good way of putting things into words.

Q7: Why does Dally look sad now? (p33)
A7:
Dally looks sad now because someone had gotten beaten badly. He lived on New York's west side for quite some time, so it was interesting for Pony to see such a sck expression on Dally’s face. Dally was sad no because the person that had gotten beaten up was someone near and dear to his heart, Johnny. Dallas loved Johnny, he was like a kid brother and for Dallas to see Johnny get hurt as badly as he did, made him sad, angry and sick to his stomach. Also, Dallas hated the Socs and they were they ones that did this to Johnny. SO for them to be responsible, made Dallas that more sad.


Q8: What literary device does the author use to describe Johnny's mugging (pgs. 31-34)?
A8:
Some of the literacy devices that the author uses to describe Johnny’s mugging are:
Dialect --> “Anyone want a weed?” “Y’all want some?” “I hope he don’t get jailed again.”
Dialogue --> “Ponyboy, will you come with me and get some popcorn?” Cherry asked. “Sure y’all want some?”“I do,” said Marcia.
Free Verse --> whole Novel; no exact fixed pattern to the chapters of this book
Imargrey --> “His face was cut up and bruised and swollen, and there was a wide gash from his temple to his forehead.”
Mood --> scary, sad and disturbing
Metaphor --> “They had threatened him with everything under the sun.”