After Johnny’s death, Ponyboy wanders alone for hours until a man offers him a ride. The man asks Ponyboy if he is okay and tells him that his head is bleeding. Ponyboy feels vaguely disoriented. At home, he finds the greasers gathered in the living room and tells them that Johnny is dead and that Dally has broken down. Dally calls and says he just robbed a grocery store and is running from the police. The gang rushes out and sees police officers chasing him. Dally pulls out the unloaded gun he carries, and the police shoot him. Dally collapses to the ground, dead. Ponyboy muses that Dally wanted to die. Feeling dizzy and overwhelmed, Ponyboy passes out.
When Ponyboy wakes, Darry is at his side. Ponyboy learns that he got a concussion when a Soc kicked him in the head during the rumble, and that he has been delirious in bed for three days.
Analysis: Chapters 9–10
Underlying the struggle between the Socs and the greasers is the struggle between the instinct to make peace and the social obligation to fight. Hinton turns the rumble into a moral lesson. The fight begins when Darry Curtis and Paul Holden face off; the fact that Darry and Paul were high school friends and football teammates suggests that their rivalry need not exist—that money makes enemies of natural friends. Ponyboy’s comment that they used to be friends but now dislike each other because one has to work for a living while the other comes from the leisurely West Side emphasizes the artificial and unnecessary nature of their animosity. While this animosity seems pointless, each gang member who fights still feels a responsibility to his gang to hate the other gang.
Ponyboy feels this tension within him before the fight. His instincts tell him to skip the rumble, as he knows in his heart that violence won’t solve anything. His hesitation after speaking with Randy and his decision to take five aspirin before the fight show that he is emotionally and physically unprepared for the ordeal. Nevertheless, Ponyboy ignores his instincts and goes through with the fight because he wants to please his social group. His participation in the rumble cements his place in the gang; he is no longer a tagalong little brother but rather a fighter in his own right.
"The Insect That Gets Under Your Skin!" January 12, 2013. National Geographic Kids. Date accessed: April 11, 2013.
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When a disaster happens, drone's can SCAN damaged buildings. They can also carry RESOURCES to people who are hurt
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Coach Carter<u> treats his son </u>Damian Carter <u>like any of his players</u> on the court, including making him sign the contract to play basketball.
But he treats him like a father when he asks for good grades and hours of community service, he also behaves like a father off the court <u>supporting</u> her son.
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When Coach Carter works to train another school, his son Damian decides that he wants his father to train him.
Fearing that his son will lower his grades, Coach Carter asks him to keep a higher average than what I ask of the other players, in addition to asking him for more hours of community service.
In addition to that, he treats him like any other player during training, knowing that his son has potential and suggests that he improve with physical training just like the rest of the players.
Coach Carter behaves like a father and the coach of his son Damian without crossing that fine line and without compromising his other players.