What Might Pony Say He Dislikes About Being A Greaser
1. Cherry reveals that she is not happy in her role as a Soc.
a) Why is she uncomfortable as a member of this group?
Pg.38 first paragraph
“You're more emotional. Where sophisticated-cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is real with us.”
Third paragraph
“It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy us, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we could.”’
She is uncomfortable because nothing with the Socs group seems real they never seem real with each other. They seem to have no feeling with each other. b) What might Pony say he dislikes about being a greaser?
How he has to travel places with someone or else he is at a risk of getting jumped. Also how he when lying to a friend in his gang/group it is like …show more content…
Cherry is not close to her group at all she might be able to get to know a greaser before she gets to know one of her own people.
similar- They are similar because because Cherry can't ever it seems tell her group how she feels. Ponyboy maybe sometimes can't always be honest with his gang because it is it really like telling a friend because they are also like family so it would be awkward for him.
2. a) Why does Pony drop the broken bottle in the first encounter with the Socs?
He drops the broken bottle to encourage Cherry Valance that he is not that kind of person and would never do something like that. Pg. 45
“I pulled her to one side. “I couldn't use this,” I said, dropping the pop bottle. “I couldn't ever cut anyone …” I had to tell her that, because I'd seen her eyes when Two-Bit flicked out his switch.”
b) If there had been a bottle in the park, do you think he would have used it? Why or why not?
I do think he would have picked it up but he would not have used it on the Socs it would have been just to keep them from attacking Johnny and him. That's what I thought when reading these lines from the
a) Why is she uncomfortable as a member of this group?
Pg.38 first paragraph
“You're more emotional. Where sophisticated-cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is real with us.”
Third paragraph
“It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy us, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we could.”’
She is uncomfortable because nothing with the Socs group seems real they never seem real with each other. They seem to have no feeling with each other. b) What might Pony say he dislikes about being a greaser?
How he has to travel places with someone or else he is at a risk of getting jumped. Also how he when lying to a friend in his gang/group it is like …show more content…
Cherry is not close to her group at all she might be able to get to know a greaser before she gets to know one of her own people.
similar- They are similar because because Cherry can't ever it seems tell her group how she feels. Ponyboy maybe sometimes can't always be honest with his gang because it is it really like telling a friend because they are also like family so it would be awkward for him.
2. a) Why does Pony drop the broken bottle in the first encounter with the Socs?
He drops the broken bottle to encourage Cherry Valance that he is not that kind of person and would never do something like that. Pg. 45
“I pulled her to one side. “I couldn't use this,” I said, dropping the pop bottle. “I couldn't ever cut anyone …” I had to tell her that, because I'd seen her eyes when Two-Bit flicked out his switch.”
b) If there had been a bottle in the park, do you think he would have used it? Why or why not?
I do think he would have picked it up but he would not have used it on the Socs it would have been just to keep them from attacking Johnny and him. That's what I thought when reading these lines from the