Why We Should Johnny Run Away

The Greasers feel like they are the outsiders. “that kid, Pip, he reminded me of us-how he felt marked lousy because he wasn’t a gentlemen or anything,” (Doc B). Here, Ponyboy feels as though the Greasers are stereotyped to be lousy and stupid by everyone else, leading them feeling like outsiders.

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.

One night Ponyboy, and another boy from the gang, Johnny, were in the park alone. Some Socs pulled up in a fancy car. When the Socs came after Johnny and Ponyboy, Bob, a big time Soc, said “You know what a Greaser is...White trash with long hair.” This makes Ponyboy mad, “I felt the blood draining from my face. I 've been cussed out and sworn at, but nothing ever hit me like that did. Johnnycake made a kind of gasp and his eyes were smoldering.” This is used to explain what Socs really think of all of the Greasers. This is why it hurt Ponyboy so much. The Socs don’t think twice about who they really. They only know them as how they want to know them, dirt. Socs don’t understand how hard life is for them, and how some of them have to live. Most of the Greasers parents don’t even care about them. When Socs beat up Greasers, they think it makes them cool, however they don’t think about how it will

To begin, they (the Greasers, outlaws, criminals, etc.) stand up for each other. For example, when Ponyboy was drowning, Johnny killed the Soc (who was drowning Pony). “ ‘Yeah.’

They are all connected and won’t be unconnected, no matter what happens. Even if someone ends up dead. All of the Greasers have an amazing bond and it's because of their loyalty and brotherhood toward each other. We all have amazing friendships, just like in The Outsiders. It isn’t a real friendship if you aren’t loyal to each other.

As Ponyboy states when he starts to understand this, “No, it wasn’t Cherry the Soc who was helping us, it was Cherry the dreamer who watched sunsets and couldn’t stand fights.” (Hinton 86). Ponyboy was previously under the impression that all Socs didn’t care about anything, and was surprised when he met Cherry, a Soc who watched the same sunset as he did. The stereotype of Socs being heartless and cruel was all he had seen and heard, so it was hard for him to understand how one could be so different. Ponyboy’s friends felt similarly, and most of them found it even harder to grasp this concept than Ponyboy had. The Greasers were used to judging the Socs as a group, and did not see them as individuals. These group stereotypes are what ultimately caused most of the biggest fights in the novel.

Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Darry are all a part of the unruly gang, the Greasers. S.E Hinton is writing these characters as rebellious young men, with a harsh background, who takes their anger and hardship out on gang fighting. These roles play an important part in this book because it shows that even though they nothing physically, they have a heart stronger than gold for each other and others mentally. Hinton use these characters to show prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression because these “poor” young men are getting beat up by the rich Socs who have never felt the feeling of being in poverty. “ You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don’t stick up for them, stick together, make

Then towards the end of the movie, Ponyboy and Johnny offer to walk Cherry and Marcia home, but that is where the problem occurs because the socs boyfriends see the girls with the greasers and make a fuss about the girls making bad decisions by hanging out with the greasers. Cherry says, “I can't stand fights... I can't stand them...,” (p.g.40) and the boys break up. Cherry and Marcia still end up going with Bob, Cherry’s boyfriend and Marcia’s boyfriend,

The Greasers go to extreme lengths to help and protect their friends. When Johnny killed Bob to save Pony-Boys life it was an instinct that Johnny had. He said “They were drowning you pony, I had no choice.” Johnny saw that his friend was in trouble so on instinct his priority was to save Pony-Boy which meant killing Bob, but he did it anyway to save Pony’s life. This shows us that Johnny cares so much about Pony-Boy that he would do anything to save him even if it meant murdering someone and possibly going to jail. When Pony, Johnny and Dally went back to the church and saw that there was a fire Pony felt responsible so he went to rescue the kids then Johnny went after Pony-Boy when Pony-Boy was out and was waiting for Johnny to come out the church the roof collapsed on him and Dally went in to save Johnny even though it meant risking his life. Both of these examples show the theme of friendship. This theme was important because friends will do anything to help each other and be there for each other, and tell each other everything and anything. Friends will always be there to the end. S.E Hinton was

Ponyboy and Johnny did make the right decision by running away after killing Bob with a switchblade. I am on this side because many bad things could have happened if they would have stayed. If they did stay they would have gotten more hurt, they would have gone to jail, and the authority favors the Socs over the greasers. Even though they could get in more trouble when they get back because they hid, it is more likely that they won’t. I think that both ways will turn out bad for both of them, but I think that running away will be best.

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.

Dally breaking up in the hospital and crumbling in the streets is almost meaning how Dally reacted to Johnny died and then leaded up to him dying. The parts where Ponyboy says “don’t think of” this is to take it off his mind and try to feel better about the two deaths. The greasers also respect Ponyboy, for example, during an argument towards the end of the book Darry said to Ponyboy “Sure, little buddy” (84). Another example of the greasers respecting Ponyboy is how Johnny helps Ponyboy feel better a lot of in a lot of conflicts. For instance, getting hit or getting almost drowned. Ponyboy positively accepted being a greaser and he is committed to being a greaser.

Through Ponyboy's story about his greaser life, the reader was able to see the high amount of loyalty that went on in the gang. The Greasers lookout for each other no matter the circumstances even if it involves having to kill someone. A very good example of inner loyalty was when Johnny and Ponyboy were getting jumped by the Socs. "'I had to. They were drowning you Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade... They were gonna beat me up.'" ( Chapter 4, Hinton)

While some greasers are also mean, they don’t act like that to people that are in their group. For example, Dally doesn’t go around beating up random people he sees walking down a street. He also doesn’t go out and just attack random Soc’s for no reason. Another example is when Johnny killed Bob. Even though he still isn’t the greatest person ever he doesn't attack people randomly. Another example of the greasers no attacking random people is when Johnny killed Bob. He didn’t want to kill Bob, but he was forced to since they were drowning Ponyboy. He was scared that Ponyboy could have died so he did what he thought was right. I’m not saying that it was the right thing to do, but he had to think fast and that was probably the thing he thought of first. They are also caring for each other. When Johnny died, most of their group felt sad and depressed. Same thing goes for when Dally got shot. They then again felt sad and depressed. The greasers can also be helpful and kind to others that are in trouble. An example of this is when they returned to the church saw that it

In The Outsiders, we see the respect and honor among the lawless. The Greasers develop honor among one another due to the struggles they face not being treated equally to those like the Socs, that hold a place in the upper level in society treated equally in the law”(Adamson, 58). The Greasers don’t have many people there for them, the rest of society, but they now have to stick together (Hinton, 176). According to The Outsiders, some of the boys in the Greaser face different problems. Darry became responsible for his little brothers, Ponyboy and SodaPop since their parents died, they fight all the time, and throughout the story try to reconcile and come to an understanding of knowing they need one another. (Hinton, 176). Even though the Greasers are stereotyped, and face different problems, they all share a bond of honor that holds innocence and love. Johnny may seem to be a horrible person for killing Bob, but he saves the children in the burning church, which meant he still had