Chapter 7

 - Ponyboy, Darry, and Sodapop were sitting in the hospital waiting room to here how Johnny and Dally were going to be. 

- While they were waiting reporters were causing a racket in the hospital asking all the boys questions about what happened and taking pictures of them for the newspaper. 

- When the reporters finally left Darry explained to the doctor that they were like family to Johnny and Dally and that they would like to hear how they were doing. They then found out that Dally had third degree burns just on his arm, that Johnny had a broken back, and if Johnny were to make it through it he would be crippled for the rest of his life.

 - After they heard the news the doctor told them to go home and get some rest they followed his advice and drove home. 

- When they got home they all went right to sleep, and in the morning when Ponyboy woke up he was reading a newspaper article that was saying what heroes they were, but when he read the last sentence of the article he was not pleased, it read: “These boys should not be separated after they had worked so had to stay together.”  

- Ponyboy then told the guys that he had a nightmare about his parent’s funeral and that it used to happen very often until he started to work harder and sleep with Sodapop.  

- Darry then went off to work and Ponyboy and Two-Bit walked to Tasty Freeze to get some drinks. While they were there Randy (a Soc) drove up in his blue mustang, Randy wanted to talk to Ponyboy. 

- While they were having there conversation they were talking about how Ponyboy saved those children and also how Randy would have let them burn and wouldn’t have risked his life for theirs.  

Chapter 8

 -After they were done talking they thought they would go and see Johnny in the hospital, while they were there Johnny’s mom was also there and Johnny said that he didn’t want to see her.  

-After they were don’t visiting Johnny Two-Bit and Ponyboy took the bus home, they saw Cherry on the way back and Ponyboy stopped and talked to her for a while and told here what was going on.  

My Thoughts

 While I was reading these two chapters one of my favourite parts was when Ponyboy and Randy were talking because while you were reading the part when Randy pulled up in his blue mustang is very suspenseful. Also Ponyboy then learned that after something bad happens something good can come out of it and that is that when you may think someone is bad…they can always turn out to be good.  I think that these two chapters represented fear, I think that this word fits this best because as the story goes on it gets more and more suspenseful and you just always want to know what is going to happen next…so I do wonder…what is going to happen next?

 (Tastee Freeze)

Katie