”Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold”(Hinton 98). Since gold is a very special material that never loses its color, Johnny thinks of Ponyboy as gold. Johnny killed one of the socs, caused fire in church, and taught a lot about friendship and love. Johnny killed one of the socs which caused Ponyboy to share the blame as well and as Johnny, so they “got somewhere” to countryside and stayed in the old abandoned church (Hinton 83).“Johnny Cade: Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s Gold. Keep it that way,it’s a good way to be”(Hinton 92). While Johnny and Ponyboy were outside of the church, Johnny realized that he let the cigarette burn. The church was on fire and kids were scattered all around. Ponyboy and Dally risked their lives to save
Jonny, as Ponyboy, is a legend in his own particular one of a kind way. Johnny is an awesome case of chivalry since he demonstrates that everyone has gallant characteristics of valiance boldness and support within them and all it takes is an occasion to bring the qualities out. One critical illustration is that amid the section when the congregation is ablaze Johnny spares school youngsters as well as spares Ponyboy by driving Ponyboy out of the congregation abandoning him self in awesome threat of being smashed by the building's falling timbers. Ponyboy depicts it like this; "Johnny pushed me in reverse towards the window… [and screamed] get out." This demonstrates Johnny's dauntlessness and bravery on the grounds that the building was caving in and going to pulverize him. Another demonstration of chivalry that Johnny submits is that he stays standing for two young ladies
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).
Johnny was a hero too because before Pony and him stayed at the church. The socs came to Pony and Johnny about why were they walking their girlfriends home. Since the socs are very violent they got Ponyboy and tried to drown him in a fountain. Then Johnny killed one of the socs named Bob because if
On page ____, it states that when the church fire was happening Ponyboy and Dally told Johnny to get out of the fire. A piece of the roof was about to fall on him, then they had to go to the hospital because Johnny almost burned in the fire so they went to the hospital to visit Johnny. Johnny told Ponyboy to stay gold. When Ponyboy and Dally tried to save him from getting burned they had to rush to the hospital because he got hurt.
Fast forwarding to the part in the church, Johnny had run into the church for two reasons. One is that he wanted to help and the other is that he was going to keep Ponyboy safe no matter what happened and he did a great job of it.
After running for a while they stopped in another parking lot with a fountain in the middle. While in the parking lot a blue mustang that belonged to the Socs that beat up Johnny a long time ago pulled up. They stepped out and started to insult Johnny and Ponyboy, Ponyboy snapped back and they grabbed him and shoved his head in the found as stated, “They grabbed my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain. I fought, but the hand at the back of my neck was strong and I had to hold my breath. I’m dying, I thought, and wondered what was happening to Johnny.” This showed that those Socs were even going to kill them just because they talked back, but they were also drunk which also shows how dangerous drunk Socs are. To save Ponyboy Johnny had to kill the Soc and afterwards they both had to run out of town to avoid being arrested. This changed Ponyboys identity into a outlaw.
When he was told by Dally to run away from the police, Johnny's first reaction was to turn he and Ponyboy in like a pure, good kid would. But, Johnny hardened up and faced the fact that life was about hardening up, as he ran away with his partner in crime (literally). Johnny's final words came to Ponyboy when he whimpered "Stay gold Ponyboy, stay gold," trying to keep his pal from the same
Johnny and ponyboy were going to the church and it was on fire. There were little poor kids stuck in the burning church and were screaming bloody murder in the church. As soon as they got there johnny and ponyboy jumped out of the car and were saving the kids life and they sacrificed their own life for these little children. Hinton wrote ‘I should be scared, I thought with an odd detached feeling, but I'm
Johnny and Ponyboy then suddenly think that they started the fire because of their cigarette butt. The boys jump out of the car to figure out what's going on and they ran towards the church. Johnny ran into the burning church trying to save the kids that were stuck in there and he was burned and injured severely. He and Dally were able to save all the children, but Johnny died later in the
After Johnny and Pony get the information that there are children in the burning church, they rush into the church without hesitation to save them. They get an eye on the kids and find a way to get them out safely. As Johnny and Pony get the children out of the church, Pony notices a change in Johnny. Ponyboy says, “He wasn’t scared either. That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes” (Hinton 79).
14 year old Ponyboy Curtis, 16 year old Johnny Cade, and 19 year old Dallas Winston saved a group of children going on a field trip for a picnic at a small church. Suddenly at 1:00 p.m, all the kids were going on with their day and flames started bursting out. That’s when Ponyboy, Dally (Dallas), and Johnny started to make their move. Ponyboy broke a glass window and jumped right through it, with Johnny following after and went on in. “There were about four or five little kids, about eight years old or younger, huddled in a corner” stated Ponyboy Curtis. The fire was letting out cinders and embers flying all over the place. One by one, the kids stuck in the church were getting dropped from a window to hurry to safety. Following them, was
Johnny and Ponyboy are two characters in S.E Hinton’s novel ‘The Outsiders.' They both have contrary lives from each other with a few similarities, as well as being two greasers from a second society. Johnny has had a rough life so far since both his parents never cared for him. His mother would abuse him verbally, and his father would abuse him physically and verbally. As for Ponyboy, both of his parents died, leaving him with his two older brothers Sodapop and Darry. Johnny and Ponyboy both read ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ at the ran down church. They didn’t know precisely what the poem meant, but little do they know that the poem would have a significant similarity to them individually. Each line and stanza refer to the experiences that Johnny and Ponyboy have lived through throughout the story.
Johnny would do anything to save his friends. After Dally drove Pony and Johnny to eat some much- needed food. They came back to see the church that Johnny and Pony were hiding out in on fire. There was a school having a picnic there. Some of the kids trapped inside the church. Without saying anything, Pony jumped out of the car and ran into the burning church with Johnny behind him. Right after saving the kids, Pony described, ‘‘Johnny shoved me out the window. ‘Get out!’ I leaped out the window and I heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me” (Hinton 97). Instead of saving himself, Johnny pushed Pony out the window and saved him. Johnny puts others before himself and is willing to risk his life for others. This act is truly heroic.
After Johnny’s death, Ponyboy finds a letter written by Johnny that reads, “When you’re a kid everything’s new, dawn. It’s just when you get used to everything that it’s day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold. Keep it that way, it’s a good way to be,” (178). Johnny urges Ponyboy to embrace his youth and innocence by not yielding to the greaser lifestyle. He insists on Ponyboy seeking his full potential. Ponyboy acknowledges that there are different stories beyond one’s appearance like himself because although the society previously consider him a nuisance to the community, they are proved wrong after he transforms into a hero after saving children from a church fire, which contributes to his dynamic change. Even the close-minded public are subject to their own change of mind. Johnny’s letter also leaves a lifelong impact on Ponyboy’s perspective on the importance of family because the absence of family in Johnny’s life makes Ponyboy treasure the atypical family he has, whether it may the greasers as a whole. In all, a number of people influence Pony to change his views on people and his
Towards the middle of the story, a boy named Johnny had killed a Soc that was drowning Ponyboy. He and Ponyboy fled the city to another town, and hid in an abandon church there for a week. When they were going to leave, they realized the church was on fire and there was kids trapped inside. Johnny and Pony were good friends and they decided to go help the children. After they rescued the children, they had to escape the burning, ravaged building. A flaming, steaming hot beam from the ceiling fell on Johnny. After this happened, Pony passed out, “ I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost