Johnny Got His Gun Essay

Johnny and Dally have many similarities and one of them is how their parents do not care for them. Dallys family does not care for him. “...Shoot my old man don't give a hang…”. (88). Dally is stating how his Dad does not care about him or what is happening to him. Johnny feels the same way about his family too. Johnny is also o\ne with no lovable family. Hinton shows this in her writing when she puts a lot of detail on johnny's feelings about this. For example, when Johnny and Ponyboy are in the

Outsiders” the author begins chapter 7 by introducing pony-boy and three others waiting to hear about dally and Johnny. Reporters then showed up, and so did the police. They began questioning pony boy too quickly that he was muddled up in confusion. Pony-boy felt nervous around the policemen and because of all the questions being asked all at once, pony-boy felt terribly sick. Darry then got the reporters to back off on questioning Pony boy because he wasn’t feeling well, and being bombarded with questions

of it. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the character Dally fights to protect Johnny because Dally cherishes him. Set in the 1960s, the main character, Ponyboy, lives in a world where everyone is divided into gangs, or social classes: the greasers and the Socs. Ponyboy is a fourteen year old that is a greaser with his friends who have any ongoing disagreement with the Socs who are rich and have everything they want. Johnny is a character who isn’t tough and doesn’t stand

together, and the warfare is between the social classes" (pg 10). Ponyboy is a Greaser, a 14-year-old boy whose world has been turned upside down. His parents were killed in an automobile accident just eight months before The Outsiders story takes place. He lives with his oldest brother, Darry, who is 20 years old and has legal custody of him and his other brother, Sodapop. Society views greasers as dull but views soc's more hardworking as they get better grades. They are more favoured as they are

Michelle Sweeney 00895121 12/11/15 Gillespie Get Your Gun “We are men of peace we are men who work and we want no quarrel. But if you destroy our peace if you take away our work if you try to range us one against the other we will know what to do. If you tell us to make the world safe for democracy we will take you seriously and by god and by Christ we will make it so. We will use the guns you force upon us we will use them to defend our very lives and the menace to our lives does not lie on the

Yes: Gun control laws do not prevent crime; gun ownership prevent crime. No: Armed civilians are unlikely to stop crimes and are more likely to make dangerous situations. People believe that owning a gun protects them from being victimized. When my family and I first moved to Riverside, three years later our home was getting shot at and almost burnt down while we were sleeping.Moving there was great it was new to us nicer place quite. We felt comfortable everything was going great my cousins and

roll, playing sports, all that good stuff until my dad came back into my life when I was 11 and messed that all up. Pops was gang member he and was a notorious Drug dealer to the city…. Scratch that he was international. Pops showed me and my big bro Johnny how to hustle, as soon as I started making fast money I knew school wasn’t for me so I dropped out in the 7th grade. My mama sweet Ms. Darlene, may she rest in peace, was killed when I was 8 and ever since I been staying with my grandparents because

One particular scene contains interesting sounds and music to make it intense and riveting to watch. The scene is near the end of the film after Dally finds out his best friend Johnny died. Dally decides to run through town and ends up in a convenience store. Dally flips through a magazine disinterested as the worker watches him suspiciously thinking he is going to steal the magazine. They use a deep-focus shot while Dally looks at the magazine with Dally in the left corner of the shot, and in the

gold.” A similarity in the book and movie is they both have the book Gone with the Wind in them. Gone with the Wind was very important to Johnny and Ponyboy because Ponyboy would read it to Johnny. The book and the movie also have “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost in them. Nothing Gold Can Stay was very important to Ponyboy because it reminds him of his parents and that nothing can last forever. Another similarity in the book and in the movie is that they both have man vs. society in them

another person , That Is based on what the problem may be. Johnny and Ponyboy would say A Hero is someone who only does good. Never Messes up or hurts someone. A person that only helps people all the time. We don’t think that Ponyboy And Johnny would say they are “Hero’s”. Especially Johnny because he hurt someone and that can never be fixed. Just because he saved a little kids doesn’t really make him a “Hero”.Dally would only believe that Johnny and Ponyboy would consider them as being a “Hero.” Because