Johnny In The Outsiders

In The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton tells the story of several days during the life of Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy and Darry Curtis are two characters in the novel that show what family love can mean.

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

The Outsiders is a young adult novel written by S.E. Hinton. The book was first published in 1967 by The Viking Press. Today, the book is published under Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group. The book has a total of a hundred and eighty pages. The Outsiders fits in the genre of young-adult fiction because it relates to teens on emotional levels. Like Ponyboy, the teen protagonist of the story, teens relate to his emotional growth as he tries to piece his life together. The story follows a rivalry in a socially divided community. The Greasers are a gang of teenage boys who live on the east side of town; the wrong side of town. Their rivals, the Socials, better known as the Socs; come from the wealthier side of town. The two groups are always head to head with one another, seeking a fight. Ponyboy belongs to the Greasers. He is the youngest out of the three brothers in his family. Apart from his brothers, Ponyboy hangs out with Johnny, Dallas, Two-Bit and others who are also Greasers. The rivalry between the two groups heightens when Johnny kills Bob, a Soc, in an attempt to save Ponyboy from drowning. In this book report, I will go through the meaning of this book and my opinion on the story itself.

• Johnny Cade – 16, beaten up by Socs before beginning of novel, idolizes Dally

In the beginning of the story, Ponyboy introduces each character and gives a description of them. Right off the bat you get a clear understanding of what each character is like. The novel says, “His eyes were blue, blazing ice, cold with hatred of the whole world. Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of 10.” (10). The description of Dally’s eyes clearly demonstrates how his personality is tough and mean. He doesn’t care about a lot of things, as you can see by his eyes. Most of his life he has been doing bad things and even got arrested for many of them. He isn’t a good influence, doesn’t make the right choices, and isn’t afraid to say what’s on his mind. All of this contradicts with how he treats Johnny and how deeply he cares about him. Johnny is one of the few things in life that Dally likes and doesn’t hate. This shows how important of a person Johnny is to Dally because Dally is very tough and mean. For Dally to like and care about somebody is a big deal because of how mean he is. All the bad things Dally has said and done make him a different person when he is around Johnny. Being tough is who Dally is and the way he lived his whole life. Therefore, the fact that he changes his ways and shows feelings and emotion just for Johnny shows just how kind Dally is to

Ponyboy’s time is when his best friend, Johnny, dies. He doesn’t want it to be true, so he convinces himself that Johnny’s death never happened. He never wants to fight again. He can’t understand why the greasers seem to have more hardships than their enemies, the Socs, even if he sometimes sees the two groups as equals. His thoughts were in conflict, and he wasn’t ‘alive’, so to speak. Ponyboy and his oldest brother, Darry, would often fight with each other, dragging Sodapop in as the middleman. Eventually, one of these fights goes too far, and Soda runs off. His two siblings chase after him, only to realize that their arguments have been tearing their brother apart inside. Soda tells them that “…it’s bad enough having to listen to it, but when you try getting me to take sides… (Hinton, pg. 176)” Darry and Pony can’t stand to see him like this, and agree to never fight again. Darry is, at just twenty years old, Sodapop and Ponyboy’s guardian. He had been ever since their parents died eight months before “The Outsiders” takes place. At the funeral, Darry did not cry. However, Ponyboy discovers that this was exactly what Darry was doing when Pony returns home after running away. This goes to show how much Darry really needs Ponyboy, despite his constant yelling. In the week of his youngest brother’s absence, Darry doesn’t stop worrying. Also, as Two-Bit said, “…the only thing that

Johnny is the only thing Dally really loves. When Johnny dies, Dally loses it because Johnny is like Dally’s Achilles heel. Dally pleads to Johnny: “Oh, damnit, Johnny, don’t die, please don’t die…(149). Dally came to his breaking point when Johnny died. Johnny was the glue that held the gang together. Ponyboy says: “He was the gang’s pet, everyone”s kid brother”(12). Johnny does not like to fight, but he admires the way Dally does not let his living conditions get in the way of anything. Dally and Johnny look out for each other and care about each other due to their

The Outsiders is a novel by S.E Hinton about a gang of Greasers in the 1960s. Greasers being the lower class “hoodlums” and the Socs being the more well off and “civilized” teens. The story follows 14 year old Ponyboy Curtis and the events that take place after a Soc was killed. One or more of the Greasers can be considered heroes because of Johnny saving Ponyboy, Darry not going to college to support his brothers, the gang taking falls for one another and how the gang helped Johnny.

What makes Johnny and Dallys’ friendship so strong is how they are similarities. For example both Dally and Johnny have parents that are abusive and do not care about them. Dally feels in the story that his Dad never cared for him. Dally says, “‘Shoot 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). Dally’s Dad did not care if he was alive or if he was dead in some tragic accident. Dally never

Written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders is a fantastic book, exploring all ideas of person vs. person, person vs. self, and person vs. higher power. The main character, Ponyboy faces challenges dealing with lost, family, law, the higher class (known as the soc’s) and his innerself. The book starts with Ponyboy walking out of a movie theater only thinking about a ride home. When he finally gets to his house Darry, his older brother yells at him for walking by himself. Throughout the book Ponyboy has arguments with Darry, whom after their parents passed away becomes ponyboy and his other brother, sodapops gardien. The arguments get so bad that one day Ponyboy decides to run away. Ponyboy meets with his friend Johnny, sense Johnny already had problems

In chapter 3 of the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the socs jump two Greasers named Johnny and Ponyboy and Johnny killed Bob.Johnny is justified in what he did and is not guilty because Bob and Johnny has had problems in the past,he did it self defense,and David was drowning Ponyboy.

The Outsiders is about three brothers, Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy, growing up on their own after their parents were killed in a car accident a short amount of time before the book started. They are all members of the greaser gang, rough kids who grew up rough, and often did not get along with their rival the Socs, rich kids who grew up privileged. The oldest of brothers, Darry, takes on the role of the father figure more responsible brother for the sake of his little brothers instead of growing up having the fun

In S E Hinton’s The Outsiders (1967), the life of a fourteen-year-old boy named Ponyboy is rough in every aspect, as is that of his young friends and brothers. The Outsiders, written by Hinton describes the troubles of a boy. These troubles are caused by inequality in and around his gang, the text also explains that he gets stuck up in a gigantic mess. The boy, named Ponyboy is exploring his harsh and rugged life and how his life has problems just like other people, except that he has different problems. He is part of a gang that is disrespected by another gang, the Socs.

One Of The Greasers ¨stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold¨.Johnny's last words to Ponyboy means that don't give up in life and be happy. In this book by S. E. Hinton shows that Johnny is quiet and is the gang's pet. She also shows that he is scared to. Johnny can be nice too by helping each other. The Outsiders, a novel by S. E. Hinton Johnny is very quiet, scared, nice in The Outsiders, a novel by S. E. Hinton.

“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren’t looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.” This quote, from the novel “The Outsiders,” pg 4, was originally written by a fifteen year old novelist, S.E. Hinton. The novel’s main theme deals with the trials and tribulations of two distinct social groups in a small Oklahoma city in the 1960’s.