The elements of Gothic literature that appear in the first four chapters are sorrow, loneliness, and death. As the story progresses, more dark themes and motifs are added.
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.
Answer:
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Explanation:
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Answer:
1. Encyclopedia.
2. Online search engine.
3. Dictionary.
4. Thesaurus.
Explanation:
1. <u>Encyclopedia</u>: a collection of informative articles typically arranged in an alphabetical order about a wide variety of topics from around the world. It is also referred to as Encyclopedia Britannica and could either be in form of a book or an online (electronic) database.
2. <u>Online search engine</u>: information stored in databases and on sites. It's an internet resource or service that searches for keywords or categories specified by the end user and then displays (shows) a list of website which matches or have informations similar to the query. Some examples of popular search engines are Goo-gle, Bing, Yahoo, etc.
3. <u>Dictionary</u>: a book or electronic resource that comprises of definitions, pronunciation, and spelling of words that are often arranged in an alphabetical order. Also, it provides an example on the usage of a word.
4. <u>Thesaurus</u>: words with similar meaning listed together. It's simply a type of book that lists words having similar meanings (synonyms) together and words that have opposite meanings (antonyms). The word "thesaurus" was derived from Greek and it means treasure.
