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At the beginning of the story, you can clearly see that Darry treats Pony very poorly. He always hollers at him, and has this sort of favoritism. He only tears Pony poorly, and only will stop when Soda tells him to stop. This is proven in the text when it states, "Me and Darry just didn't dig each other. I never could please him. He would have hollered at me for carrying a blade if I had one.   ...   He never hollered at Sodapop-not even when Soda dropped out of school or got tickets for speeding. He just hollered at me." Pg 15.  This quote proves that Darry is clearly favoriting Soda. Because of this, I belive that there will be a point in the story where Darry will learn he has to treat Pony better.

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Early on you can see there are major issues with Darry. He seems to boss and treat Pony worse than others. Not only is he disliked by Pony, it seems it may be the same way with Soda. All throughout the 1st chapter, you see Soda continuously tell Darry to leave Pony alone. Also, he shares something very important. In the text it states, "Shut up and I'll tell you something. Don't tell Darry though. Okay. I think i'm gonna marry Sandy. After she gets out of school and I get a better job and everything. I might have to wait till you get out of school, though." Pg 19. This shows a lot in only one quote. In the story, it clearly shows that Darry is somewhat of the leader. In this situation, Soda chose not to tell Darry, but instead tell Pony about something very important. If you're going to tell anybody, it would make sense to tell your leader. And because of this, it shows there is either a trust/power issue causing him not to tell Darry. Later on in the story there may be a situation where Darry recolonizes he is a poor leader, or he is taken from his position.

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"Then someone had me under the armpits and was hauling me to my feet. It was Darry. Are you all right Ponyboy?"( Hinton 15) Right in the beginning there was trouble and Pony wasn't able to fight for himself. So his older brother who is a part of the gang gets there in time to have his back and help him get out of danger. The book already shows in many ways that all of these boys will be there and help each other with whatever they need and this is just one of the ways that it is shown.

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"Okay," I said nonchalantly, "might as well." (Hinton 25).
Nonchalantly means in a casual and calm way. When the girls ask Johnny and Ponyboy to sit with them in the theater, Ponyboy seems relaxed and calm in the girls' presence which is why he responded in a calm and collected way.

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After realizing that a lot of the characters have issues with Darry, there may be a reason for this. Darry was an incredibly popular, athletic, star in school. He even got a scholarship. This is proven in the text when it says, "Darry didn't deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty. He had been a real popular guy in school; he was captain of the football team and he had been voted Boy of the Year. But we just didn't have the money for him to go to college, even with the athletic scholarship he won." Pg 18. This quote clearly shows that Darry didn't have a great turn of events. He was popular, captain of the football team, and had a scholarship. That was all taken away because of a lack of money. This is most likely what causes Darry to be so tough on everyone else, because of how unfortunate everything turned out for him. He could have had a perfect career playing professional football, but instead is roofing houses for a living. Sometimes people take out their anger on others and that may be why Darry is acting harsher towards everyone, especially Pony.

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"He liked fights, blondes, and for some unfathomable reason, school"(Hinton 10). Unfathomable means to not or not be capable to understand and comprehend something. This is how it is used in this part of the book. Ponyboy does not know and understand why Two-Bit would like attending school at eighteen and a half while never learning a thing.

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"Leave her alone, Dally. Huh? Dally was taken off guard. He stared at Johnny in disbelief"(Hinton 24). I was surprised when Johnny stood up for the girls and said something. It was the right thing to do since Dally had been bothering them a little bit. So far Johnny has seemed shy and too nervous to stand out or do things that would put him into a situation like this. I am glad that he did say something but I wouldn't have expected it to come from him.

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johnny Cade is like the gang ´ s pet, but his parents would always beat him up and ignored unless his mom yelled at him you can hear it from down the hall. and johnny would have ran a million times if it was not for the gang, he would not know what love and affection was.

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"You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang any more." (Hinton 26).
Ponyboy explains in this paragraph how he thinks about the gang. I think he is very loyal to the gang and would support them no matter what. Ponyboy is very close to the gang, which is why he feels this way.

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"i'm not. I got put up a year in grade school." (Hinton 23).
Ponyboy is different from the rest of the gang because he has very good grades and even skipped a year. This is unlike his brothers, who are dropouts so they can work to make money for a living. Ponyboy seems different not only in this way, but also because he is not as rough as the other members.

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In the book there are two gangs, named socs and greasers. The socs jumped a lot of the greaser members and the greasers were not happy so i think that there is going to be a gang war between the greasers and the socs, and socs will have the upper hand because they are rich bigger and stronger then the greasers but the greasers will surprise the socs and win the war

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"We all looked and saw a blue Mustang coming down the street. Johnny made a small noise in his throat and when I looked at him he was white"(Hinton 41). I think that the people in the car are going to be the ones that jumped Johnny a while ago. Earlier in the book Johnny says it was a blue Mustang that had been there that day he got beat up. Also the second Johnny sees it he gets visibly scared and so nervous he loses some of his color. He then made a nervous sound too. Johnny seems to be not too tough and to be scared easily but he has only seen the car so far and he's already this worried about it. He hasn't even seen people inside of it or know if they have weapons or not. He would only be this scared if it was the people who jumped him I'm thinking.

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"Dropout made me think of some poor dumb-looking hoodlum wandering the streets and breaking out street light". hoodlum means a criminal or a gangster when she said hoodlum then she was talking about Sodapop because she hates that he droped out and now hes a gangster and a criminal.

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Based on the events between pages 49-52, I think Ponyboy and Johnny are going to go on the run. If or when the police find out that Johnny killed Bob, they have to stay safe. In the book, Johnny says, "We gotta get outa here. Get somewhere. Run away. The police'll be here soon." I was trembling, and it wasn't all from cold. But Johnny, except for the fact that his hands were twitching, looked as cool as Darry ever had. "We'll need money. And maybe a gun. And a plan." (Hinton 52).
Johnny and Ponyboy are going to stick together after that night. In my opinion, i think Johnny killed Bob since he was terrified after the Socs jumped him. I don't think it was the right thing to do, but Johnny wanted to protect Ponyboy and himself.

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"Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong" (Hinton 52). I think that on their way back from the park they are going to get into some trouble and get hurt. It is late and dark when they are walking which seems like a time it would happen and Johnny and Pony are the main ones that have been getting hurt in the book. If this doesn't happen then I think Darry will be even more mad at Ponyboy for going back out so late when it was already past his curfew. He might even get so mad and hit him for a second time even if he doesn't mean to

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she gave him an incredulous look. Incredulous means you cant believe something and that you are in shock. in the book the two girls from socs give Dally a shocked look after he gives them coke. pony also gave Dally a shock look. she could not beleive it.

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"They had scared him that much. He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body..." (Hinton 33).
Ponyboy was explaining to Cherry Valance how Johnny was terrified by the Socs ever since this event. I think this foreshadowed the event from pages 49-52 when Johnny killed Bob. This event shows Johnny's motives. Also, at the end of chapter 3, it states that "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong." (Hinton 48). This is probably foreshadowing that the story is going to get more intense as the chapters go on, after Ponyboy runs from home when Darry slapped him.

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"My teeth chattered unceasingly and I couldn't stop them." (Hinton 51).
Unceasingly means without stopping. In this part of the book Ponyboy almost got drowned because of a Soc, and was pulled out of the water just in time. His teeth were chattering without stopping because of being in the water and being cold.

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Incidentally, we dont mind being called greaser by another greaser. incidentally means when someone adds on to the conversation or its something that adds on and it being not connected to the conversation or story and off topic.

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"I saw Johnny's cigarette glowing in the dark and wondered vaguely what it was like inside a burning ember" The word vaguely means in a way that is uncertain, indefinite or unclear; roughly. An example of this word in a sentence is, the teacher explained the project very vaguely.

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"Dropout" made me think of some poor dumb-looking hoodlum wandering the streets breaking out street lights--- it didn't fit my happy-go-lucky brother at all." The word hoodlum means a violent criminal or troublemaker; a hooligan or gangster. The meaning of this word is important because it shows how Soda is someone you wouldn't expect as a dropout,  showing that Soda is a more causal and somewhat normal person.