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“Ponyboy, listen, don’t get tough. You’re not like the rest of us and don’t try to be…”

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“I had never given bob much thought—- I hadn’t had time to think. But that day I wondered about him. What was he like?”

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“Johnny was dead. But he wasn’t. That still body back in the hospital wasn’t Johnny. Johnny was somewhere else—- maybe asleep in the lot, or playing the pinball machine in the bowling alley, or sitting on the back steps of the church in windrixville.”

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“I swallowed five aspirins, though, when Darry and soda weren’t looking. I do that all the time because I can’t sleep very well at night. Darry thinks I take just one, but I usually take four. I figured five would keep me going through the rumble and maybe get rid of my headache.”

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“ but it was his showpiece, his pride and joy-every time he ran into a new hood he pulled it out and showed off with it.”

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“Serious reality has a hard time coming through to soda, but when it does, it hits him hard.”

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Essential question 6:
“Oh, pony, I thought we’d lost you … like we did mom and dad…”

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Essential question #4
“No,Johnny,not my hair!”

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Essential question #4
“I ducked and tried to run for it, but the soc caught my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain.“

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Essential question #3
“Where the heck have you been? Do you know what time it is?”he was madder than I’d seen him in a long time. I shook my head wordlessly.

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Essential question #4
“Dallas could talk awful dirty if he wanted to and I guess he wanted to then.”

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Quote: but he doesn’t use his.      Essential question #4