[chapter 10]

Vocabulary
indignantly - expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting
When Jamie wasn’t played on the starting line up he indignantly walked away from the baseball stadium and headed home.

1. Q: How does Pony's dreaming, or lying to himself, finally work in this chapter?
A: Pony’s dreaming, or lying to himself, finally works in this chapter because Johnny, his good friend, was dead and he had to convince himself otherwise; that he is still alive. This was one of the most traumatizing things that had occurred in Pony’s life and he needed to ease the pain. The only way in doing so would to make it seem so realistic that he was alive.

2. Q: Why was Johnny's dying so difficult for Dally to handle?
A: Johnny’s death was so difficult for Dally to handle because he was the one thing he loved. After all his better cold harsh and long days he realized he very much loved Johnny. But who couldn’t love him? He kept love in Dally’s life, which kept him to remain alive.

3. Q: Why do you think Dally would have wanted to die?
A: I think Dally would have wanted to die because it was hard for him to handle all what was occurring. Between his whole life of running, behind bars, fighting or just being bitter and cold and now the one thing he came around to love and his final realization of that was gone. He probably felt there would be no one else like Johnny, which meant nothing else to love. And what was the point of living if there’s no love?