Answer:
They start seeing each other for the first time, maturing and aging in a sense.
Explanation:
Ponyboy begins to understand Johnny better, realizing he isn't dumb but smart, just slower at things. Johnny sees Ponyboy become more soft amd vulnerable, but also supportive amd helpful. Both also start to come to terms with the situation.
^Sorry this is a little vague, I haven't read the text in 5 years^
In this passage the Reverend Parris is implying that Abigail has done something bad that got her fired from her job. He is saying that it doesn't make sense that no one has hired her since, and that Goody Proctor won't even go near the church because of Abigail. He is implying that it is Abigail's fault for something she had done.
D. C<span>hallenge other women to speak out against their fathers.</span>
The doorknocker is an important object, though. The doorknocker showed Scrooge Jacob Marley's face, in which led him through the events of the "night before Christmas" Without have seeing Jacob Marley's face he wouldn't have had any motivation.