Character Analysis Of Johnny In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

People are often judged upon their traits. If willed, these traits can improve, leaving the person with a better overall personality. One of the more pronounced character examples is the character Johnny, in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. The book follows the story of a battle between rich, West-side social clubs and poor, East-side gangs. Johnny is a part of the gang from the wrong side of the tracks. He is abused and always has a defeated look in his eye, but even Johnny can change. Throughout the novel Johnny is scared, brave, and accepting. Johnny goes through tremendous change throughout the novel.

Stereotyping plays a large role in the events of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders. The two main opposing groups, the Socs and Greasers, constantly face problems because of the stereotypes associated with their social groups. As seen in the novel, stereotypes and prejudice cause extreme and unnecessary conflicts. Both groups have predetermined opinions of the other, but as the story progresses, many of the characters begin to realize how similar the groups can be. The stereotypes observed in the novel can easily be compared to those in real life. Both the Greasers and the Socs share many of their opinions with the other members of their groups, and this leads to many misunderstandings. In fact, most of the conflicts in the novel are caused

 Before he died, he was attacked by a Soc, Johnny almost died after the Soc attacked him but the Greasers came and saved him.  That is another reason why being with the Greasers is a life accomplishment because they help you when you need help.  Johnny is quiet, but when he needs to talks, he will talk when he is protecting someone.  The Greasers don’t scare him because he was attacked by a Soc and every time they scare him, he remembers what happened to him.  The Greasers think of Johnny as a lost puppy in a

Through his life, he has been abused by both of his parents, with no adult guidance except for the older kids in the neighborhood. Inside the book of ‘The Outsiders,’ it stated that, “ … Johnny banged up

The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is a book that is full of excitement, adventure, and real-life situations. The book starts out in the daily life of a 16-year-old boy named Ponyboy. He is a part of a group called “greasers” that battle with “socs” daily. The greasers are usually poor and the socs are usually rich. One night, Ponyboy and his friend, Johnny, are walking when they get jumped by a group of socs. One of them is attempting to drown Ponyboy in a fountain, but Johnny saves his friend and kills the soc with a switchblade. They quickly run to Dally to explain what happened. He gives the boys a gun, $50, and a place to hide. They jump on a train and hide out in an abandoned church. They stay in that church for a couple weeks, then Dally

How can two characters that have such a similar lifestyle, be so extremely different? In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the author proves that such instances happen. Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade have very similar lives, but are completely different people. Johnny is more of a sensitive person and always likes to follow the rules. While Dallas on the other hand, loves to break the laws and do the wrong thing. These two characters are very similar on the inside, but are very different on the outside.

Johnny Cade comes from a broken home, his dad hits him, his mom does not care about Johnny, the only thing he has are his friends, the greasers. Ponyboy, one of his closest friends, is talking about everyone in the gang and when he came to Johnny he said, “Johnny had it awful rough at home”(4). Johnny unlike everyone else in the gang, except Dally, does not have someone in his family that truly cares for him. This affects him because it makes him upset that his parents do not care for him. If Johnny did not have it so hard at home, he would be more content and joyful, and even less scared. Johnny is a little bothered that his parents did not ask about Johnny so Dally goes on and says, “‘my old man don’t give a hang whether i’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter’” (88). When Dally is 10, he gets arrested and is on the streets of New York, which shows how little Dally’s father cares about him. Maybe if his father did care, Dally would be more kind and caring, and like Johnny, more joyful. If Dally’s dad cared, he may still be living with his parents and would not be a greaser. Dally and Johnny are

In The Outsiders, Johnny is introduced as an afraid, non-talkative, small, skinny, and child who has been broken emotionally. By the end of the story, Johnny becomes more aware of his surroundings, is braver and is not a sad little kid as he was introduced. He has also changed the way he looked at “fighting is solving problems”too,¨fighting is not good at solving problems¨. Johnny had never helped people in the beginning but in the end, he finds out that every life matters.

The outsiders is a novel of conflicts- greaser against soc, rich against poor, the desire for violence against the desire for peace. The characters of Dally and Johnny affect the novelś conflicts as greasers and as friends of Ponyboy, however they have opposite personalities and approaches. Johnny is quiet, caring, and loyal. however Dally is mean, caring, and tough.

Johnny is abused by his parents at home. He doesn’t want to fight them back. This is a book called The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton. I focused on Johnny, the most tough yet peaceful and loyal person in the story.

From the very beginning of The Outsiders, the detail shows how the greasers are family. Pony and Johnny told their friend Dally what happened and asked for help, he gave them a loaded pistol and $50 to take care of themselves this is a moment of how much they care for each other. One quote that SE Hinton used that sticked throughout the novel was, “Nothing Gold can Stay”(77), an example is when Johnny was hurt from getting burnt in a church that took fire from them smoking, Dally really cared about Johnny and loved him the most and couldn’t live without him. \ 2 In the second half of the novel, Johnny’s mom comes to the hospital to see him, Johnny’s says he doesn’t want to see

In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny is introduced and develops as a braver person through his. The Outsiders is a novel about the life of a boy named ponyboy. He has two other brothers one older and the other younger, there parents passed away in a car crash so the leave alone. In town there are two groups the greasers and socs. The greaser are kids that live on the east side and use lots of grease in their hair,.

The decisive climax in the novel The outsiders by SE Hinton was leading up to the death of Johnny. He was the symbolic favored representative of the greasers family unit, "the baby" of the tight knit gang. Johnny was to even the most hardened greaser a sliver of hope in the bleak world they lived in. The gang felt the need to protect and care for him due his tumultuous home life and he portrayed shreds of innocence and morality that they all had in them but felt the need to disguise to hold on to the greaser image which was in reality all they had.

In the novel titled The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, one of many main characters named Ponyboy goes through the struggle of transitioning from his parents’ death to his old life like it never happened. He goes through the separation of the greasers, which are poor, long, greasy haired kids and the Socs, who are rich, white kids, as well as his brothers Darry and Sodapop. It’s a debate on whether Ponyboy should stay with his brothers’ or go to a boys’ home without them. The writer would have to recommend staying with his brothers’ and the author most likely agrees due to the ending of the book. Its believed that Ponyboy should stay with his brothers because of the way they feel towards each other, the fact that Ponyboy doesn’t deserve to be put with some stranger; that his unconditional love for his brothers is unbreakable, and the fact that they

Within the book ‘The Outsiders’, written by S.E Hinton in 1967, the character Johnny Cade is represented as an innocent and ‘good’ young boy through his dialogue, actions and by the way others speak of him. Johnny conveys the theme that not everything is 'black and white', and that everyone is a shade of grey, through actions and events that involved him. This presentation will show that Johnny himself is a shade of grey, even with everyone else saying how 'good' he is, because of his murder of Bob the Soc, however it will also be shown that he is still 'good' because of the event that took place at the church.