Johnny In The Outsiders

After Ponyboy points out to Johnny that he never could have recited the poem to anyone else in the gang, Johnny remarks, “…I guess we’re different” (78). Ponyboy and Johnny do not have the rough, violent personalities present in their comrades. Conversely, they are considerate and thoughtful. So, notwithstanding that they are as much as a member of the gang as Dally or Two-bit, they still don’t belong within the greasers like their friends do. Moreover, when explaining his choice to attend the movie theater by himself, Ponyboy says “And nobody in our gang digs books and movies the way I do” (2).

The Outsiders illustrates the theme through the relationship of Ponyboy and Darry throughout the course of the book. In the beginning of the book, Darry slaps Ponyboy because he came home very late. This causes Ponyboy to run away from home with Johnny. Ponyboy tells Johnny, “‘He didn’t use to be like that...we used to get along okay...before Mom and Dad died. Now he just can’t stand me,’” (Hinton 51). This quote shows that Ponyboy is isolated from his brother. It shows how Ponyboy and Darry are drifting further apart from each other due to the death of their parents. Later on in the book when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are in the hospital, Sodapop and Darry come to see how they are all doing. When Darry and Sodapop see Ponyboy, they have a

Hinton created unique characters to display her overall theme of the book. Ponyboy Curtis is the protagonist in The Outsiders. Hinton shows Pony as a young greaser who doesn’t use his head much, unless it is for books or movies. Although not much has happened in his life as a greaser, a lot has happened to his fellow greasers. For example, Johnny Cade; the boy who had a horrible home life, came searching for a gang to fill the hole where his family

In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is about a young boy named Ponyboy. Ponyboys main identity is being a greaser. The greaser are a gang down in the lower east side. Over the course of the story Ponyboys identity has changed from what he looks like. His personality has also changed throughout the story.

The novel The Outsiders is written by S.E. Hinton and is told through the perspective of fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy and his brothers Sodapop and Darry are members of a Greaser gang, meaning they are considered hoods or juvenile delinquents by society. Other than being financially and socially disadvantaged, the Greaser’s main problem is getting jumped by the Socials, the rich kids from the West Side of town. Essentially, the Socs, are what make the Greaser’s life a literal living hell because they fear for their life anytime they encounter the Socs. Johnny Cade, Dally Winston, Two-Bit Mathews, and Steve Randle are also members of the Greaser gang. They all stick up for one another and protect each other from the Socs.

In the book the Outsiders, Ponyboy faces many conflicts, some had carried more significance than others. The author of this novel is S.E. Hinton. The main characters of this novel are Ponyboy Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, and Darrel Curtis (Darry). The Outsiders is novel about the wars between the two social classes formally known as Socs (The higher class/richer people) and the Greasers (The lower class/poorer blue collar workers.) This novel however is told from the perspective of the Greasers, more specifically a young boy at the bottom of a small gang or family of greasers. In the novel The Outsiders the character Ponyboy experience multiple conflicts with his family, his friends, and the law.

In every book, movie, and televisions show, there are characters within the story that are similar to you and seem like that they could be your friend, be your friend/enemy and characters that can really bother or annoy you. In the book, The Outsiders, there is a variety of different characters you will see. There are characters you will like, you will dislike but still are ok with, and characters you would want to get rid of. In the story, there are characters that are very similar to this idea. The character you will like is Johnny. The character who you will like and dislike is Dally. The character who you would want to exterminate will be Darry.

Ponyboy, the protagonist, states that “Greasers…have long hair” and that Darry’s was conversely “short and clean”. Hinton utilises the development of stereotypes and visual imagery to construct a juxtaposing image in the reader’s mind between the oily, unkempt appearance of a Greaser and the stark cleanliness of Darry. Hinton insinuates that a Greaser’s outward appearance, namely hair, reflects directly on their identity, an exhibition of pride as Greasers to society. Darry’s clean hair is symbolic of his comparative maturity to the rest of the gang, emphasising his defiance the Greaser lifestyle of poverty that has invaded his life. Hinton portrays that Darry is an ‘outsider’ in his society as he doesn’t abide by the stereotypical standards and physical identifiers of his gang, consequently feeling isolated. Like Darry, Skeeter is isolated from her Caucasian society as she is the only unmarried lady in her social group, Junior League. Her mother explains to her the “guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl…accentuate with makeup and good posture”, and acknowledges that she is conversely “a tall one”. Similarly, Stockett engages stereotypes through visual imagery to help portray Skeeter as an ‘outsider’. Stockett paints a picture in the audience’s mind of the

Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Darry are all a part of the unruly gang, the Greasers. S.E Hinton is writing these characters as rebellious young men, with a harsh background, who takes their anger and hardship out on gang fighting. These roles play an important part in this book because it shows that even though they nothing physically, they have a heart stronger than gold for each other and others mentally. Hinton use these characters to show prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression because these “poor” young men are getting beat up by the rich Socs who have never felt the feeling of being in poverty. “ You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don’t stick up for them, stick together, make

One of the main characters in S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders is Johnny Cade, a 16 year old greaser. He grew up in a household with abusive parents. The other members of the greasers treat him as their “pet”, and he is adored by all of them, even the unfeeling Dally. Ponyboy describes him as “a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times” (Hinton, 11). He has tanned skin, dark eyes, and black curly hair. Johnny is a nervous, thoughtful, and intelligent character, who is able to shine despite the world trying to drag him down.

In The Outsiders, Ponyboy has challenges throughout his life following the death of his parents. He is raised by his older brothers and finds himself breaking the law. Ponyboy will be better off living with his brothers. Ponyboy has somebody like Darry to keep him on track of school and he has somebody like Sodapop to keep him company, and others people might say that he should be in a foster home, but Ponyboy is happy that he is with people he trusts like his brothers, Darry and Sodapop.

One of the main characters in the book, “The Outsiders”, by S.E Hinton has had a difficult life being raised by his parents. Johnny’s hard living started out when he was just a little boy. At the age of 10, Johnny was adopted from 2 adults that lived in the “greasers” territory. With Johnny’s inexperience of the new environment, his new parents weren’t the greatest supporters.

The examples I have provided in both dialogue and text left the reader to comprehend the dynamic that Johnny provided in the gang. Coupled with the fact that we the readers realized that it was Johnny that had killed the Soc and not Ponyboy. Moreover, foreshadowing that it could possibly be Johnny that might be the retaliatory death. Furthermore, Johnny did not have anywhere near the unified home life that Ponyboy had, even though Ponyboy did not fully realize it at the time. Additionally, the reader gets that Johnny could be dispensable due to the reality his future life will never evolve to what Ponyboy's could be, never giving that "happy ending" so to speak. For example, the quote from Dally (pg.14) basically tells the reader how much

In the beginning of the book Ponyboy shows how Sodapop is his favorite brother. Then he shows that Darry hates him. In the middle of the book Ponyboy starts to notice that Darry may or may not care about him. In the end of the book Ponyboy realizes how much Darry really cares about him. Sodapop is the middle brother who has all the good looks.

The Greasers and the Socs' Are two rival gangs who try to claim there place in a small town. Throughout the book and movie an interesting twist occurs, Ponyboy runs away and meets with Johnny Cade, they walk throughout a vacant lot and didn't expect to see the Socs' and their blue Mustang . This is when the interesting twist occurs one of the greasers called Bob had tried to drown Ponyboy and Johnny having no choice, killed him with a switch blade. The movie had quite a turn as it included different details.