What is your impression of the narrator, ponyboy? give evidence from the story to back up what you think of him. is he a good person? a good greaser? would you want to be friends with him? etc. try to come up with at least three unique things to say about him. in the drive-in scene, where the greasers are hanging out with the girls, what do you learn about the characters? choose three of the following characters (ponyboy, johnny, dallas, two-bit, cherry) and provide a character trait that is revealed by this scene (not one we already knew from chapter one). darry is constantly complaining that pony doesn’t use his head. he yells at him for walking home alone in chapter one and again in chapter three for staying out too late. what is darry’s motivation for these actions (why does he behave this way)? explain in detail. does pony understand his motivation? why or why not

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.

How can miscommunication cause a tragedy?