Johnny's Funerals Diary

Living the way that Johnny did, he did something great in his life. He didn’t deserve to die, but he died a hero and not everyone in the town where the greasers lived agree. Johnny lived in a world where he was probably scared every time he walked around town and that flat out sucks. He didn’t have the best family life, but he had Dally and that was pretty great because Dally loved Johnny. “Why can I take it when Dally can’t? And then I knew. Johnny was the only thing Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone.” (Hinton pg. 152).

The boys had asked me to write a eulogy in memory of him, so here I was, standing in front of the small group of people that Johnny called his friends. His parents weren’t there, of course they weren’t. They didn’t care about him. I hadn’t wanted them there anyway. I looked around me. Standing at the front were the boys, Sodapop, Darry, Two-Bit and Steve, and behind them were a few other familiar faces, that I couldn’t put names to, probably just some of his classmates.

We all went to Dally and Johnny’s funeral. It was a very sad time for all of us. As greasers we aren’t supposed to cry, we are supposed to be tough and cool, to show the greasers we aren’t scared of them. But Dallas and Johnny were our family, we did a lot together. Johnny never really had a family after he told us what he went through at home when his parents always fought and beat him. Right after the funeral ended we all went to our place and just hung out watching Mickey Mouse on Disney. No one said a word about Johnny or Dally. We were to used to having Dally around to make us laugh, or Johnny around just to know we helped him have an actual family.

He didn‘t make a sound, but tears were running down his cheeks. I hadn‘t seen him cry in years, not even when Mom and Dad had been killed and in that second what Soda and Dally and Two-Bit had been trying to tell me came through. Darry did care about me, maybe as much as he cared about Soda, and because he cared he was trying too hard to make something of me and ―that was his silent fear then—of losing another person he loved.” Ponyboy and Dally have always had a rocky relationship. Ponyboy resents Dally as he thinks he is too controlling.

In 1775 General Thomas Gage, Commander if the British Force in the Massachusetts Colony, issued orders to the troops quartered in Boston, Massachusetts to march to Concord and and destroy the colonial military stores that were there. The reason the British were in Massachusetts in the first place was because the people of Massachusetts were very rebellious and have had many violent resistances against the British already. The secret orders that Gage issued were hardly a secret and some colonials knew about this movement a week before the British moved out. Both the British troops and the colonial militia meet each other at Lexington Green on the 19th of April, 1775. Suddenly a bullet whizzed

However, the father does not display masculine traits at the time of the funeral, where man behaviors such as weeping become appropriate. Aimee inserts the description of this event in the middle of the story in order to contrast stereotypical views of man with real human emotions a man may have. After the funeral, when the narrator asks the father about his experience, the father says “I cried” (45) and described the event as “very sad” (46). The father

Dally lived a hard life from the get go, he was from the "Rough side of New York." Dallas' life required great amounts of energy to sustain because there was no tranquility of his emotions at anytime other than when he slept. Constantly the reader and Ponyboy found Dally in an aggregated mood of on fire with anger. With the passing of Johnny the only thing of a normality in Dally's rocked and shaken world Dallas had lost his footing no longer on the ground, nothing steady to hang onto his world spun further down into complete turmoil and despair with every fleeting second. Dally saw only one way out, a permanent solution for a temporary problem, so Dally pulled the unloaded pistol out on the cops and fatally shot numerous times to the chest. "When I saw his face on his motionless body before it hit the ground I saw a face of grim victory." But Johnny's death affected everyone to some extent; Ponyboy, his closest friend suffered a severe mental breakdown and as for the rest like Soda it really got them thinking too. Johnny died young and he had seen it all, all the wrong things. It could have been any one of them but it was innocent Johnny a Greaser, who defied the stereotypes and died for a noble cause.

Dally is a criminal who did many bad things, and had gone to jail many times. Dally has been involved in many gang related crimes. He lied, he cheated, and he stole. He also went to rodeos and rumbles. He even jumped people. Dally lived a life of crime and didn’t take any actions to turn his life around, he just kept doing the wrong thing. And after Johnny dies, Dally has the police kill him. He does this by pulling a gun so that the police will shoot at him; and they do. He died before he hit the floor.

When her husband returns, he made Johnny promise not to get involved in the war. After hearing this, Johnny’s mother remarked, “I’m glad. It’d kill me to lose another one, 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.

Darry after years in the war he lost his mind, we used to talk all the time. Only slowly drifting apart, i thought it was normal for that to happen, but it’s not is it? Darry Fist flies towards me like a rocket the anger in his face boiling. His punch knocking me two the ground bruising my skin. “Stop Darry” Screams Two-Bit. His words meant nothing to

Having everything happen at the park, none of that would’ve happened If Ponyboy or Johnny didn’t run away from their homes. They could’ve stayed at other friends homes or asked for help from Dally. By killing another man Johnny died because he was always trying to help everything and save everyone. Johnny said as Ponyboy woke up near a dead and bloody body “I killed him”. This relates to my thesis because later on risking his life to save someone else really bites him back. Life isn’t always about saving other people, sometimes you have to save yourself

When the three of them get back to the church they realize there’s a fire and a group of kids are trapped in the inside. Without a hesitation Johnny and Ponyboy enter to the church to save the trapped kids and are able to save them but the church collapses, Dally runs to save Ponyboy and Johnny but can’t really help Johnny so he breaks his back and is taken to the hospital, but after some days he dies. With Johnny’s death everyone in the gang gets really sad but no one ever expected Dallas Winston, the toughest of them all to be so affected by it. At the end Dallas cannot handle the loss so he makes a plan to kill himself without him really doing it; he robs a shop so the police would chase him, calls the greasers to go to the parking lot so they could help him but at the parking lot he gets out of his car and takes out his unloaded gun, since the police didn’t know the gun was unloaded they shot him and he dies, in front of the gang.

He will forever be missed. You can donate to the box outside the church. He will forever be in our heart. Relating to the death there was a fire at the jay mountain church. at first the fire was just burning down the church. The forest was not affected but people started to worry after hearing children start to scream in it. After people discuss what to do a hero stepped up his name is PonyBoy. People told him to stop but he jumps into the burning building and his friend johnny cade jumps in after him. PonyBoy make it out with the kids but johnny isn't as lucky. Pony goes back in for him and it turns out that he was hit by a falling piece of timber. Pony come out of the church with johnny and is rushed to the hospital. Firefighters later show up and contain the fire. The church was the only building to be affected. Ponyboy is was later called a town hero. If he didn't jump in or if he listened to the adultes the kids could of died. Also if he didn't go back for his friend he would of died in pain. Pony went to the hospital to comfort his friend were. He got the news his friend would die.johnny was also called a hero with his friend. He jumped in behind him and tried to save more

(154)” The only one Dallas cares about is gone. Dally does not want to live anymore because he lost Johnny, so he decides to end it. Likewise, Johnny is being affected by his homelife so much, he has threatened turning to suicide multiple times throughout the book. Whenever Johnny is left to his thoughts, he reflects on his life. Johnny hates how his life practically revolves around fighting, the very thing he hates. After meeting Randy and Bob, Johnny tells Ponyboy, “ ‘ I can’t take much more’ Johnny spoke my own feelings. ‘ I’ll kill myself or something.’ (47)” Johnny does not want to deal with all of the stress that is being induced on him. Johnny and Dally both place as little value as possible in their lives.