Why Did You Help Johnny And Ponyboy Escape After The Murder?

Ponyboy is gold. He is helpful and smart, but he’s a greaser and well that’s fine to some people...to others it’s just not acceptable. Even though Ponyboy and Johnny hit the road after Bob was killed he still deserved better. Ponyboy had potential and he is going places, I can tell. Ponyboy has had many losses in his life, Mom, Dad, Johnny, and Dally, but he is strong. That’s all he is going to need to be.

But once he sees Johnny it gives him something to love and care about. He made sure that Johnny didn’t become violent. He says in the book multiple times he cares about Johnny he said “Johnny…I just don’t want you to get hurt.” A quote also says that “Johnny was the only thing that Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone.” Later in the book Johnny dies and it is too much for Dally and he gets himself killed. Dally was so distraught, he wanted to be dead.

Johnny sacrificed his life to save the children from the burning building. Ponyboy risked his life to save the children from the burning building. Johnny feels remorse for killing Bob and decides to go back and turn himself in.

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.

The author writes, “Johnny’s eyes glowed. Dally was proud of him. That was all Johnny had ever wanted” (148). Johnny’s reaction is priceless. Out of the entire greaser gang, Johnny and Dally’s relationship is the strongest and most significant. When Johnny needs Dally the most, he is his staunchest supporter. In return, Johnny gives back the same, if not more, amount of affection to Dally. When Dally and Johnny die, Ponyboy makes a list of realizations. Ponyboy thinks, “But I remembered Dally pulling Johnny through the window of the burning church; Dally giving us his gun, although it could mean jail for him; Dally risking his life for us, trying to keep Johnny out of trouble.” (154). It is clearly proven that ‘tough’ Dallas Winston makes a substantial effort to make Johnny’s life better. If Dally would not make the effort for Johnny, then Johnny would have to experience life worse than it already is. Since Dally thinks of Johnny almost like a little brother, it would hurt Dally to see Johnny experience that kind of pain. Dally and Johnny are bonded by these similarities, but they are also bonded through their differences.

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

Johnny wants Ponyboy to turn themselves in. Johnny said “I said we’re goin’ back and turn ourselves.” Although they do not get to this point to turn themselves in, Jonny knows right from wrong and wants to do what is right. Johnny is courageous to tell Dally and Ponyboy exactly how he feels about that situation.

1.M Ponyboy walks Johnny to his house but, Johnny decides not to go in because his parents were having another argument. Johnny then decides to go to the empty lot where most of the greasers hangout for the night. Ponyboy tags along because it's not time for him to go home yet. The two boys end up falling asleep in the lot, Ponyboy wakes up suddenly two hours later and realizes he is late and is going to be in big trouble with his oldest brother when he gets home. Ponyboy runs home hoping that both of his brothers will be sound asleep but he's in for a rude awakening. Ponyboy walks into his house to find his oldest brother Darry sitting in his chair reading a news paper. Ponyboy tries to seek passed him but he sees him and puts the paper down. Darry gets up from his chair and starts yelling and Ponyboy for coming home so late and having both him and Sodapop( Ponyboy's younger older brother) worried sick. Ponyboy tries to say he's sorry but Darry continues to yell. Ponyboy begins to yell back saying that he is tired of him always yelling at him. Darry reminds Ponyboy if he can't keep control of of Pony and Soda they we both in up in a group home. Ponyboy continues to and

Teenagers can be responsible for their own deaths based on the actions they choose to make. Teenagers decide to join gangs and make wrong decisions that can have a negative effect. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton,Johnny and Dally are in a gang called The Greasers and some of their actions caused their injuries and some led to death. Johnny’s actions are responsible for his injuries and his death.

1. I felt I could relate to Ponyboys struggle to find who he is and I thought it was interesting with the contrast in Dally and Johnny’s identities.

Afterward, while Ponyboy is gasping for air and absorbing the fact that he is not going to die, he sees a dead body covered in blood. Simultaneously, he realizes that it was his friend who put it there and vomits. Evidently, after undergoing such an incident, Ponyboy was in no position to make good, reasonable decisions, and so it is not his fault for following Johnny and hiding

Being a hero causes Johnny’s death, but he knows it is worth it. When the gang visits Johnny in the hospital, after his accident, Dally tells him, “‘Yeah, they’re calling you a hero now and heroizin’ all the greasers. We’re all proud of you, buddy,’”(148). Johnny saved children from a burning building, but in consequence, he ended up in critical condition. More than just the gang believes that Johnny is a hero, since the whole town reads his story in the newspaper. Sadly, Johnny dies shortly after this, but in good spirits. He dies as a hero instead of a murderer. Dally is an extremely different story. Unlike Johnny, Dally never executes a heroic action, but he breaks the law at every chance he gets. When the gang watches Dally pull a gun on the police, and they shoot him down, Ponyboy says, “Dally didn’t die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he’d die someday,”(154). Regardless that the death of Dally was unexpected, the gang knew that no matter how long he was alive, he would not change his ways, and that Dally would die a criminal. Overall, Dally and Johnny are very different in the sense that Johnny dies a hero and Dally dies a

Johnny is not justified in what he did and is guilty because Johnny was carrying a blade. Ponyboy says “Johnny’s hand went to his back pocket and I remembered his switchblade”(Hinton 54). This statement shows that Johnny had a switchblade in his back pocket. The switchblade is what had entered Bob in the chest,

Dally in the book found his identity in conflict which then made it’s way to him killing himself. Johnny and the gang impacted Dally a great deal. The gang and being a Greaser was Dally’s identity and he loved that about himself. Johnny played an immense role in Dally’s life. When Johnny died Dally’s life fell apart because Johnny was like a brother to Dally (quote that talks about Johnny being like a brother to Dally chapter 10).

1.Why was Ponyboy unsure about walking home and how do we know he was nervous?