Descriptive Essay - Original Writing

The rain had just stopped pouring, and we had all gathered in a park nearby, as a makeshift memorial for Johnny. It wasn’t really a funeral, we didn’t have the budget for that, and it wasn’t like his parents cared enough to give him a proper goodbye.

After being escorted by the police to the hospital me and Ponyboy dashed with excitement to Johnny’s room. Before we could get even an inch in the door the doctor stopped us in our tracks. The doctor said “he is dying”. Before I could think I pulled out two-bit's switchblade. I wasn't going to let some punk doctor keep me from seeing my friend. Instead of what I thought the doctor was going to do he let us see Johnny.

In anger and in fear he stopped Bob from hurting Pony(56), that left him with a feeling that distressed him greatly. He says to Pony, “Shut up about last night! I killed a kid last night…. How’d you like to live with that”(74)? This eats away at Johnny and makes him cry- “it took alot to make Johnny cry”(4). When Pony and Johnny go on the run because Johnny killed Bob, they leave everything behind and only stay in touch with Johnny’s hero, Dally. It hurt Johnny even more when Dallas had told him his parents had not asked about him after he ran away(88). He decided to turn himself in and stop running when he saw that it did more harm than good. Johnnycake knew that it wasn’t fair for Pony to be away from his family. On their way back to the church they see that it had caught on fire. Pony and Johnny knew that they had probably started the fire and ran in the church to try and save the children stuck inside. They rushed to get the kids out of the church window as embers fell on them. Though they go through these hard times they end up being heroes when they save the children and learn quite a few things.

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).

• Dally went in after the collapse of the roof and pulled Johnny out of the building

Towards the start of the story we here Cherry say, “Johnny… he’s been hurt bad sometime, hasn’t he?” (31). In this chapter, we find out that Johnny was servilely injured by the Socs.

They were there for him and found him and made sure he was okay and that he would be alright. When they found Johnny he was really badly beat up and needed help and they were there for him. “There was a whole bunch of them,” Johnny went on swallowing, ignoring Soda’s command. “A blue mustang full… i got so scared…” He tried to swear, but suddenly started crying…

First Johnny stands up for Cherry, a girl they meet at the movie. Johnny says “leave her alone Dally. You heard me, leave that poor girl alone” (page 24). Dally was mistreating Cherry so Johnny stood up for Cherry. This is something that the shy little Johnny wouldn't do but Johnny actually spoke his mind to Dally. Around the middle Johnny took the biggest risk of his life, he knew if he took that risk it would change his life either way. He took that risk saving Ponyboy's life. Johnny states “I killed him Pony. They were drowning you, Pony they might have killed you” (page 57). From then on Johnny was not that little kid they knew, he before was too scared to talk, now he killed someone to save Pony's life. Last Ponyboy said “I had come to realization when Johnny pushed me out of the train and fell on the damp grass. Johnny must have stayed awake while I was sleepin“ (page 63) . This is showing that Johnny took responsibility and stayed awake even though he was super tired. From what Johnny was like in the beginning is very different from now, he now has courage and isn't as sensitive than in the beginning of the

Theme Analysis of “The Outsiders” S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders, takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma where Ponyboy Curtis is walking alone and gets jumped by rival gang members, his friends the greasers save him from getting stabbed by a knife. The Outsiders conveys the theme “Family is the thickest source, even family. ”,because when Pony and Johnny fell asleep in a lot, Darry got scared and thought he was killed but couldn’t call the cops or the brothers would be separated. One lesson in this story is that family and friends are forever even through the bad and good and that family is everything because family is and usually everyone around you.

Johnny was talking to friends in front of his house when he saw a car he thought he recognized. He waves hysterically but gets no response. It is obviously not who he thought it was, and he continues walking with friends. The car followed, the driver got out, and fired a gun into the air. Scared and afraid everyone began to scatter; the shooter took aim hitting running Johnny in the back. Johnny was confused to what had just happened, trying to make sense of the shooting and why he couldn’t get up. Everyone figured the only reason he was shot to begin with was because he was black, or simply gang related. In rehab, Johnny never cries and doesn’t try to depend on his family to get things done. He just works to become independent again doing whatever he is told. He has changed drastically, even with how he would act in certain situations. In the final section, it goes back to Johnny laying in the road bleeding and paralyzed. He watches his would-be murderer come to stand over him tell him the reason why he shot him is simply because he waved at

Awaking out of his coma for Johnny was hard enough, then finding out that his true love was married was just a heartbreaker. “‘I couldn’t believe the news she was telling me’…” (King 195). He eventually has bigger problems that he must face. Once he saves the world from being destroyed, Sarah leaves her husband and realizes that Johnny is who she was meant to be with (King 543).

The next few months flew by quickly as everyone involved in Johnny’s and the DeSoto’s life adjusted to the permanence of the situation. It wasn’t long after his Uncle Roy and Aunt Joanne told him that how he was would be with them forever and that they would be able to do a sort of adoption with him in a few months. Johnny lit up at that and trusted the family even more. Knowing he was where he’d always be seemed to help with Johnny’s comfort level and his ability to cope grew quickly. Soon, between the work that the NAMI group was inadvertently doing and the teaching Joanne was doing, he was venturing out in the world.

Johnny and shoved him. After shoving him Joe ran off Johnny told the principal. The principal called Joe's parents and he got in trouble. Later Johnny drove home with a smirk on his face. When he was on his way home he was delayed. He finally got home and took a nice soaking bath. The next morning he went to the bank and loaned some money.When Johnny was driving home he

Making his way back to the DeSoto's house, Johnny was stopped at a stop sign when he felt someone slam into his back bumper.

Fortunately he does not result in shooting himself because his wife Denise informs him that there was a young woman involved in a road accident and her blood is compatible with Mikes’. Luckily the woman is an organ donor and she was being flown to that hospital to begin organ recovery. This not only save Mike’s life, but it also saves John’s who was planning on committing suicide to his son. He is eventually prosecuted for kidnapping but is supported by the witnesses and is acquitted for most of the charges for kidnapping.