Chapter 10 Questions
Indignant- feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment
How does Pony's dreaming, or lying to himself, finally work in this chapter?
Pony's dreaming or lying to himself finally works in this chapter because when he gets sick after the rumble, Randy the Soc, asks Pony about Johnny's death. Pony says "What are you talking about? Johnny isn't dead." He says this because he has been lying to himself about Johnny's death, telling himself that he isn't dead and that he will be at the lot, at a friends home, or at his own home. Pony isn't ready to accept that Johnny is dead, but soon he is able to accept that Johnny is dead, even though it took him a little while.
Why was johnny's dying so difficult for Dally to handle?
Johnny's death was difficult for Dally to handle because Johnny was always the only one that Dally felt he had to protect and they had a special bond that neither of them had with any of the other Greasers. Dally feels that since Johnny is gone, there is nothing else to look forward to in life, so he purposefully robs a store, and makes sure that the police are following him, pulls out an unloaded gun, causing them to shoot and kill him on the spot.
Why do you think Dally would have wanted to die?
Dally would have wanted to die because when Johnny died, he felt like there was no purpose in life because Johnny was the only person that Dally felt he needed to protect. Dally also would have wanted to die because he had a terrible criminal record and would have had a bad life because he would not have been able to get a job to make money, and he would have been miserable in prison.