For chapters 8 and 9, i chose the word “Fear” that best describes these two chapters because both the greasers and socs were nervous and scared of the rumble that was going to happen. Dally and Sodapop are afraid of what might happen to  Johnny because he wasnt doing so well in terms of health and because he might die. The day the rumble comes, everyone is ready and excited for it, but in my opinion, they were a little nervous and scared about it. I think they were just trying to think positive and not let their fear of losing affect them. Then Dally takes Ponyboy to the hospital to see Johnny, but died when they arrived. The whole crew were also filled with anguish and fear when they found out that Dally died in the park in the same night.  I thought that Ponyboy was also fearful when he was depressed about Johnny and Dally dying and was scared something bad was going to happen again.