Johnny Tremain Character Analysis

In the beginning of the novel, we learn about Johnny Cade - a quiet boy who is haunted by his past. A short time ago, Johnny was beaten senseless by a bunch

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.

Johnny had a very important time in his life when Rab bequeathed the british rifle to him before he died at the battle of Lexington. Therefore, when Pumpkin was deserting the army and needed farm clothes from Johnny to camouflage into Boston. Johnny watched the milta train on the dusty fields with their various muskets and ragtag clothes. Another important thing was the boston blockade and how it affected the colonists in boston by the food shortages and daily life. In addition, of the surge of unemployed people because the british shutdown the port, which is their main source of income for the economy and jobs. When Johnny was on Hancock’s Wharf, Johnny was looking for apprenticeships he went to every shop but couldn't find a job. For example, when Johnny went to the clockworker he said, “Why are you looking for this job… why not continue being a silversmith?” To conclude, Johnny Tremain was a very descriptive, intriguing novel that set the setting of colonial

The internal conflict of Johnny Tremain is the decision to work hard and change himself for the better, or stay the way he is. Throughout the novel Johnny faces many problems with his life. His personal band-aid of pride makes it very painful inside for him, but he is masking it which made it even harder for him. When Mr. Lapham tells Johnny “pride goeth before a fall”, he has no idea there is any problem.

“If you make a sound, I’ll stick this knife in you.” (62) In the novel Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease, it displays the determined, caring, and gallant adolescent Kit Kirkstone or Katherine Russell. Kit dresses up like a male to pursue a career in acting, some would say. However this young girl may be small but she has a strong voice.

Many of us readers would agree that after reading Tim O’Brien’s “In the Lake of the Woods” we find John Wade’s behavior more than unusual as he would do some unusual things such as burning plants with boiling water while saying “Kill Jesus”, and have flashbacks. Most readers would wonder how a psychologist would diagnose John Wade. Based on his behavior, John Wade would probably be diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any life-threatening event which results in psychological trauma. Wade’s diagnoses would affect O’Brien’s implicit argument as anyone that has a perfect or normal life can be ruined by PTSD.

In the beginning of the novel, it demonstrates that not only is Johnny “doomed” to remember Owen, but shows that his past continues to haunt him; although, he gains faith, the tragic events shape him into a whole different person (1). The beginning of the novel also shows that within

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 this short story by Tim O’Brien, Lieutenant Jimmy cross leads a platoon of men in the Vietnam War. Unable to keep his thoughts from his unrequited love interested, Martha, Cross allowed his platoon to become lax in their duties and mentally removed from the war. The conflict arises when one of his men, Ted Lavender, is killed on a mission. The conflict is resolved when Lieutenant Cross abandons his youthful fantasy world for the reality of the war he is living in. Cross finds new purpose in the vigilant leadership of his men.

Due to Johnny’s injury to his hand he is unable to make any money and is now just an added expense to the Lapham family. Mrs. Lapham begins insulting Johnny, this causes Johnny to dread everyday in the Lapham household and wish he lived somewhere else. Later that week Mrs. Lapham begins a partnership with a skilled silversmith named Mr. Tweedie to replace Mr. Lapham when he dies. However, for the time being he does Johnny’s old job. This upsets Johnny and ends up causing him to verbally assault him. During the chapter Johnny gets offered several jobs but declines them all because he feels none of them are good enough for him. With his arrogance still in tact he asks Mr. Hancock for a job, but as soon as he sees Johnny’s injury, he declines.

Hello, I will be writing about the differences and similarities about the Johnny Tremain Book by Esther Forbes,and the Johnny Tremain Movie by Disney. I really enjoyed reading the book and I hoped the content could’ve been in the movie. Unfortunately, the movie had major and minor differences. The only thing I liked from the movie was that you could see how the people looked like in that time period. While I was watching the movie it was losing the book’s meaning.

One major similarity between Johnny and Dally is they both care about each other. When Johnny is dying Dally begs for him to not die but that does not stop Johnny from dying then Dally states “‘oh damnit, Johnny, don’t die, please don’t die…” pg(149) Sense Dally cares so much about Johnny he is sad that he is dead. Dally does not cry often but when Johnny is dying Dally has a meltdown and hits the wall. When Johnny is already dead he leaves Ponyboy the book Gone With The Wind and he put a note inside the book. Ponyboy read the note and in the note Johnny writes about a sunset and then tells Dally to watch one “Tell Dally to look at one he’ll probably think you're crazy, but ask for me” (pg 178) Johnny wants Dally to realize that there is

“I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look—wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there,” a quote said by Tom Joad from John Steinbeck’s novel Grapes of Wrath. Written during the great depression, John Steinbeck depicts a Oklahoma family traveling to California for work after losing their farm. The main character Tom Joad is first seen as caring only for himself and his family. By the ending the novel Tom has grown from caring about himself to caring and seeing the whole world as his family.

Johnny’s internal issues are as equally grievous as his external issues. He practically raised his siblings since he was six years old, and started to work in factories when he was seven. Due to his early start transferring to adulthood, he never really had the chance to experience a jovial and enjoyable childhood. Johnny “had been robbed of a large part of that playtime by being compelled to take care of [his siblings] … he had fallen the part of little mother and father as well” (8). Johnny does not have any pleasurable memories to look back on and confirm that his upbringing readied him to steadily transition to adulthood. His mother is not a major help in his life, consequently making him uphold both roles of provider and supporter when it comes to his family. With no time for himself, it was evident in Johnny’s face that “there was no joyousness in him…

Jody is about an adopted child. It is about searching her natural parents. Who wants to know her true identity. This is the story of being human who has ever about the heart’s journey home. This is true to life story written by Jerry Hulse. Jody was an adopted daughter by Mary and Bruce Carr, who’s married dozen years before they adopt her. She was born on May 13, 1931 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was faces now serious surgery and the doctors needed her family background or medical history about her parents. When she was 16 years old, she knew that she was only an adopted daughter. Her adoptive parents never told her about it, only the place where she was born. And that is the only information to find her mother. Jerry Hulse her husband is the first travel editor in Los Angeles. He was died on 2002 at the age of 77.