Across
- 1. Addiction
- 2. Hesitate; speak brokenly; waver
- 3. A high school dropout that is good with mechanics, and is Ponyboy's brother
- 6. Method the writer uses to develop a character
- 12. The main character and narrator of the book
- 15. Highest class; the best
- 16. The message or underlying meaning of a literary work
- 18. Confused
- 19. Imitate; copy
- 22. This character was shot under a street light when he pulled an unloaded gun on the police
- 23. Ponyboy's oldest brother who couldn't go to college because of he has to work two jobs
- 24. Declared not guilty
- 25. Sodapop's girlfriend
- 27. Place and time of the story
Down
- 1. When an author provides hints that predict events later in the story
- 4. Uneasy; fearful
- 5. Sodapop's horse
- 6. Literary response; story; writing
- 7. Unwillingly
- 8. Idea of feeling associated with the word
- 9. Referring to a literary work in another literary work
- 10. Blonde
- 11. The person who stabbed and murdered Bob Sheldon
- 13. Careless; dangerous
- 14. Light-headed; wandering in mind
- 17. The Soc that spies on the Socs for the Greasers before the rumble
- 20. Facial expression of pain
- 21. Confused; couldn't understand
- 26. Sodapop's best friend
- 27. Daze; unaware