Chapter Eleven

Vocabulary: Find the meaning of the following word from the chapter and use it in a sentence correctly.

acquitted p.168

Acquitted- to declare officially that somebody is not guilty of a charge or accusation

A St. Catharines jury on Sunday acquitted a man accused of kidnapping a teenaged girl.

1. Explain why Pony might rather have anyone's hate than their pity (p.162)?

Ponyboy might rather have anyone’s hate than their pity because he didn’t want anyone to feel sorry for Johnny or himself just because they weren’t rich like them or poorer than the middle class. Pony didn’t care how poor or rich he was he just never wanted anyone to pity them for their lifestyles. He would rather that they hated them because he knows that if they hated them then that would be real. But if they pitied them then he would know that they were just pretending and faking it.

2. What do you think is going on with Ponyboy when he says, "Johnny didn't have anyhing to do with Bob's getting killed" (p.166)?

I think that what was going on with Ponyboy when he said “Johnny didn’t have anything to do with Bob’s getting killed” he meant that Johnny didn’t really mean to kill Bob purposely, it was self defense and if he didn’t kill Bob then and innocent life would have been lost which was Ponyboy and he did nothing wrong he was just in the park with Johnny and out late but he did nothing to offend Bob which would cause Bob to hurt any of them because they were completely innocent.