Why does Ponyboy lose consciousness during highly intensive scenes? Ponyboy escapes reality and intense situations by losing consciousness.
Ponyboy has gone through a lot of mental and physical stress and cannot handle the intensity of the scenes.
Hinton wanted to give the reader time to pause and reflect upon the intensity of the scenes.
Hinton wants to emphasize the intensity of the scenes while allowing Ponyboy to keep his innocence.

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.