Who Is To Blame For Johnny's Death

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).

      I think that the main reason Dally helped Ponyboy and Johnny escape after the murder is because that he didn’t want Johnny to get in jail because he was worried about how it could harm him, and turn him into someone that’s mean and hard. This interpretation was gained from the textual evidence on Pg.____

Another similarity that makes Johnny and Dally similar is through their value of life. Dally has never really cared about what happens to him. He goes around trying to break laws and getting caught, going to jail, getting out, and then repeating. He never really cares about how he turns out and what will happen to him. He has never respected his life. He gets in fights all the time and is mean. When he kills himself just because Johnny died, he gave up on the world. Everyone knew he would die like this, “I knew he would be dead, because Dallas Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted” (154). His value of his life is very little and when Johnny dies he brakes. Similarly, Johnny’s value in life is limited. In the letter he wrote to Ponyboy, he talks about how

While Ponyboy is riding to the hospital after the church fire a man says, “‘I swear, you three are the bravest kids I’ve seen in a long time . . . “‘ (95) Johnny is part of the three that are considered heroes. After Dally died the author states that “Dally didn’t die a hero. He died violent, and young and desperate.”(94) Dally pulled an unloaded gun on the police and it made them draw their guns and shoot him. Dally basically committed suicide because the police did not know that the gun was not loaded, so they had to protect themselves while Dally was hung out to die.

Dally is a very important character in the novel, The Outsiders. Dally helps Ponyboy and Johnny after Johnny kills a soc. He hands them money, a gun, and a map. He also gives them advice on where to hide out. Dally is a character who always seems to be doing the wrong thing. He has been to jail numerous times for many different reasons. After Johnny dies, Dally decides to rob a store and pulls a gun so that the police will shoot him. The police shoot him down and Dally died before he even hit the ground. If Dally hadn’t died, some parts of the story could have changed, and some aspects of the story could have stayed the same.

Dally and Johnny may be very different, but they have extremely important similarities. For example, both of these characters place very little value on their lives. Dally is first arrested at the age of ten and he loves to break

Johnny and Dally are basically polar opposites with respect to their personalities. At the beginning of the story, Johnny’s personality is described. The author writes, “Johnny couldn’t say “boo” to a goose… I had never heard Johnny talk back to anyone” (35). It is shown that Johnny is a very shy and sensitive boy. Since Johnny

As I stated above, Dally had proven that he cared about Johnny, many times throughout the book. Dally had practically taken Johnny in as his family. He was like a mentor to Johnny, he wanted him to do well and have a better life than him. Johnny was the greasers’ “kid brother,” meaning that everyone cared for him as a younger brother. On page 89, Dally says to Johnny, “Johnny, I ain’t mad at you. I just don’t want you to get hurt,” this tells us that he really cares about his feelings and doesn’t want any harm done to him. He continues with, “You don’t know what a few months in jail can do to you.” He cared about what would happen to Johnny, he didn’t want him to end up like the uncaring side of Dally. Indirectly, he mentioned caring about him, he didn’t want Johnny to end up like him if he turned himself in to the police. This proves that Dally has a caring side to

He took the fall for someone else so they don’t have to go to jail. He saved him from having a criminal record and the danger of jail. Dally took the sentence for Two-Bit and didn’t even say a word. As Johnny said, “that’s gallant.” Even though Dally may not act like a hero all of the time, he can be one when he is really needed.

In 1982, while in prison a man finds out about Pee Wee and gets a mutual friend to get them in touch with one another. This man is Tony Cimo. Tony parents were killed in a robbery at a convenient store by a man named Rudolf Tyner who was put in maximum security just down the hall from Pee Wee. Tony offered to pay Pee Wee to kill Tyner for the murder of his parents. They came up with a plan that was thought to be impossible. Pee Wee became good friends with Tyner over the next couple of weeks. The first attempt to kill him failed when poisoning Tyner’s buck otherwise known as prison alcohol. The second attempt was a success. Pee Wee managed to get C4 smuggled into the maximum security prison. Once he had the C4 he convinced Tyner they need to make a cup telephone to string through the cells so they could talk. Tyner goes along with the idea not knowing Pee Wees plan to kill him. Pee Wee molded the C4 to the bottom of the phone with a charging cap attached to the wire. When Tyner put the cup up to his ear Pee Wee stuck the other side of the wire into the electrical socket which caused the C4 to blow Tyner’s head off. The police were able to link Pee Wee to the murder from the recorded phone calls between him and Tony. Pee Wee was then sentenced to death and executed in 1991 .

Johnny and Dally have similarities but they also have differences as Johnny dies a hero Dally dies a hoodlum. Johnny goes into the burning church to save those kids and that is heroic. Johnny also died because he saved those kids and put their lives in front of his. Johnny is a greaser and things don't go his way but he has it in him to save the kids which is a heroic act. Dally says “‘ They’re still writing editorials about you in the

Johnny’s actions are responsible for his death because when they were at Windrixville Dally told Johnny not to go into the church but Johnny took it upon himself to follow Ponyboy into the burning church. According to the text it says “ Dally sounded irritated “Get back in here before I beat your head in”. I knew Dally would have to park

Dally can not take it in. Losing Johnny is not just losing a friend, it's losing family, the

Dally felt as if he wanted to die because how terrible he felt on the inside. On page, 154, Ponyboy says “I knew he would be dead, because Dallas Winston wanted to be dead and he always gets what he wanted.” (Hinton 154) Dally died because he wanted too. Dally doesn’t have many people that he would care so much about. This relates to the song “Knockin’ On Heaven's door” because the song say “It's getting dark too dark to see”.

Johnny's greatest fault would be his pride and arrogance. Pride brings false Independence on yourself. Pride makes Johnny fly too high until the barrier of reality hits him(the crippled hand). I feel that pride is not always necessarily to be bad thing because one should have little bit of pride which will force him/her from being fall down and will have a urge to learn more and more. In the story Johnny thinks that he is talented than anyone.