Creative Writing: Steaks

While at a movie theater, Dally is antagonizing and annoying several Soc girls. Johnny stands up to Dally, his hero, and states, “‘Leave her alone, Dally.’ ‘Huh?’ Dally was taken off guard. He stared at Johnny in disbelief. Johnny couldn't say ‘Boo’ to a goose. Johnny gulped and got a little pale, but he said, ‘You heard me. Leave her alone’” (24). It took all of Johnny’s bravery to stand up to his absolute idol. He was willing to stand up to a dangerous boy that could easily defeat him in a fight, to save others. Not only this, but when a church is burning down with children inside, Ponyboy states, ”Johnny wasn't behaving at all like his old self. ... he grinned at me. He wasn't scared either. That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes” (92). Johnny gives his own life for kids who have futures. He charges into the church at full speed when necessary. Johnny becomes brave in the middle of the

11). Johnny was lost and alone, which was different from Dallas Winston. Dally had found where he wanted to go, downhill, while Jonny couldn’t even start to find a path. Even though he was encouraged by bad friends and habits, he refused to act anything like his mother or father. Johnny also wanted to change to be the best he could be while still on Earth. While they were waiting for Dallas to help them out of the abandoned church, he said, “‘I didn’t mean to,’ he finally blurted out, ‘but they were drowning’ you and I was so scared’”(Hinton, p. 74). Johnny only used his switchblade to protect others, not to fight and rumble like most of the gang. He saved Ponyboy, yet feels so bad for killing Bob; he was an innocent boy trying to find the right way out of the situation, and even risking his life for Pony. Nevertheless, some people disagree with some statements I have made.

In contrast to the removed Johnny shown early on, after the realization that he endangered several children, he boldly rushed to assist. After killing Bob in self-defense, Johnny bolts with Ponyboy to an abandoned church in the countryside. However, after presumably dropping a lighted cigarette, the church ignites in a blaze of fumes. Realizing there are children in the flaming church, Johnny and Ponyboy dart to aid. During the calamity, Ponyboy realizes that, “Johnny had been right behind me all the way” as he slips through a broken window and into the fiery church and notes that, “Johnny wasn’t behaving at all like his old self...That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes” (92).

“I think you are a liar. You want to kill me. You’ve killed every breathing specimen that has ever walked into the house. You have killed Gregory Temple, Chris Mulholland, animals, heck you have probably even killed the poor post man,” Billy says loudly. At this point Billy knew that he had to find a way to get out of here before she added him to her kill

After Johnny’s fight with the Socs in the park he utters, “‘I killed that boy … I had to’” (57). This is Johnny’s worst nightmare, he could never imagine being beat up by the Socs again. Johnny never stands up to others but it seems like second nature for him to save one of his “brothers”. While Johnny is in the hospital he exclaims, “Listen, I don't mind dying now. It's worth it.

The first reason Johnny should have found a gun for Rab is that Rab needed a gun. Rab only had his wimpy, outdated, unfit gun that could only knock over a rabbit at ten feet. Rab could never fight in a war with such an inadequate firearm.

different men. Johnny instantly goes in the living room and grabs his AK47 from up under his

Johnny swung and thrashed violently trying to give himself room as he had become the living epicenter of a sea of dead that was building up around him like rings on a tree. He managed to knock some of them back, giving himself a small amount of room to run. He drew them away from the Black Beast as he used the hard metallic object he held in his hand as a cudgel, cracking it off zombies heads like a brick. In his other hand was one of his pistols and he took aim shooting the closest zombies. A few dropped lifelessly to the ground, but for everyone he took out several more took their place at the dinner table. Johnny quickly ran out of rounds in the magazine, the slide going to lock-back exposing the gun’s barrel. The dead closed in for the kill. Johnny drove himself into them, drawing them even further away from the Black Beast. Waves of blackness were coming over him now. Not having the strength to continue, his legs buckled and he fell to one knee. “Come and get me, you bastards!” he shouted with his last lungful of air. V.Q. screamed “NOOOO!” as he stared helplessly out the window of the Black

People shrieked as they watched their very city collapse into ashes as it . Through the ashes there were huge metal bodies, with red bloodshot eyes gleaming at the side of all the destruction, bodies made of steel towering over the remains with smirks stretching across their faces, “This is the end,” they all repeated. Carnage.

He ran towards the man wearing the black ski mask and tackled him onto the dewy grass. Apparently Billy then stood up wincing at the pain, looking at the woman, expecting a mere sign of gratitude- only to be smack across the face- trembling the park’s grounds, leaving a bright red handprint on Billy’s face, describing it as the “worst pain of your life”. The woman then starting yelling at him, gathering other people’s attention, asking “Why did you do that!”, then he realized what truly must’ve happened after second thought. Billy thought in his head that the presumable victim and mugger had been a couple going to the hockey game that had been going on, explaining why the man with the mask on must’ve been trying to get his girlfriend/or wife to come with him. Billy had told me that he realized that the woman wasn’t in danger and that it truly was a misunderstanding and the save wasn’t necessary. Billy then told me that he apologized to the woman and the man for the misunderstanding and ran away with his dog to his car, until being pulled over by the nearby cops, getting cuffed, and being driven to the police

Taking the lead, and continuing down Exchange Street, Lovienthal and Mary watched as the black pickup in front of them struck several individuals in the half mile it took for them to get to the Quan’s pizzeria. They could only hope that the people Johnny hit were already infected and not just survivors running scared.

The speaker stumbles upon a gruesome site-the remains of a scene of horrific violence. The evidence that remains-a skeleton, blood-soaked articles of clothing, a pile of ashes, and an empty liquor flask among other things-is all dormant, a fact reflected by the tranquil diction such as slumbering, cushion, vacant, and empty Still, the aura of the place of execution, particularly the "Scattered traces of tar, restless arrays of feathers, and the lingering smell of gasoline” brings the experience powerfully to life in both the speaker's and

He had decided to stab Rob with his switchblade when his obnoxious, drunk gang had jumped Ponyboy and him at the park. One of the Socs was pushing Ponyboy’s head under the water of a stone fountain, drowning him. The others had a blade and got close to beating up Johnny. Rob, the Soc Johnny had stabbed, had died shortly after. After that, the boys knew their lives would never be the same again, they were now involved in a serious case of murder.

Soon, the light smoke that surrounded him seemed to thicken, the smell of gunpowder and decay lay potent in the air, forcing him to step back for a moment. Through the grim hazy of grey and white, Stg. Jones saw the faintest silhouettes of odd lumps on the ground. Most of the lumps were spread out, but there were a few piled onto one another.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!” went the large, black, bloody club as the tall man with the skull tattoo slowly but deliberately knock on the ground. Frantic as she ran down the, seemingly, endless road from the ominous man on her trail. The banging stopped. She didn’t slow down but took the time to look back to see if she was still being chased.