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Directions: S.E. Hinton had a great vocabulary for a fifteen-year old, but she wrote in such a simple, honest way that it is easy to understand what she is trying to say. Read the sentences below and then write your own definition for what you believe the words-in-bold mean
. We’ll go over the real definitions as a class and see how close you were.
1. His eyes are dark brown
—lively, dancing, recklessly laughing eyes that can be gentle and sympathetic one moment and blazing with anger the next. He has Dad’s eyes, but Soda is one of a kind.
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2. Oh, there are a few named gangs around, like the River Kings and the Tiber Street Tigers, but here in the Sout hwest there’s no gang rivalry . So Dally, even though he could get into a good fight sometimes, had no specific thing to hate. Only Socs.
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3. She [Cherry] gave him an incredulous look; and then she threw her Coke in his face.
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4. They liked The Beatles and thought that Elvis was out, and we thought the Beatles were rank and that Elvis was tuff, but that seemed the only difference to me.
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5. “We’re sophisticated – cool to the point of not feeling anything.”
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6.
“No,” Cherry said bleakly, “it’s Randy and Bob.”
“And,” Two-Bit said grimly, “a few other of the socially elite checkeredshirt set.”
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7. I studied Dally…. Tow-headed and shift-eyed, Dally was anything but handsome. Yet in his hard face there was character, pride, and a savage defiance of the world.
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8. It would be a miracle if Dally loved anything. The fight for self-preservation had hardened him beyond caring.
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9. “but one night I saw Dally getting’ picked up by the fuzz, and he kept cool and calm the whole time.
They was getiin’ him for breakin’ out the windows in the school building, and it was Two-Bit who did that. And Dally knew it. But he just took the sentence without battin’ an eye or ever denyin’ it. That’s gallant .”
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10. “I got a good chance of being let off easy,” Johnny said desperately .
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11. “… anyway, I was walking around downtown and started to take this short cut through the alley” –
Two-Bit was telling me about one of his many exploits while we did the dishes. I mean, while I did the dishes.
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12.
“Sodapop, take it easy on him, okay?” Soda looked back at him [Darry] indignantly .
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