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Is Johnny A Hero Essay
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Do you know what a hero is? A hero to me is someone who has courage to stand up against things and that risks his own life for something small. They are also outstanding achievements. “Y’all were heroes from the beginning.” (Hinton,107) I believe that someone in the book “The Outsiders” named Johnny is a hero. He is because he saved Ponyboy, he saved all the kids from the church that caught on fire, and he gave Dally something to live for. Ponyboy and Johnny fell asleep in the park and Pony didn’t wake up until it was about two in the morning he had to run home because he was supposed to be back earlier. When he walked into his house Darry started to yell at him because he was late and then he hit Pony. No one has ever hit him so he went back to Johnny and said that they're going to run away. At first they just walked to the park and when they got there soc’s
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Without Johnny Dally wouldn’t be here. Dally loved Johnny to Dally Johnny was little pet and would try not to let anything happen to him. The reason I chose this as one of the events of Johnny being a hero because Dally wouldn't be as strong as he was without him. “We gotta get even with the Socs. For Johnny.” (Hinton,125) He was a hero for Johnny because if he didn't get hurt he probably wouldn’t have gotten even with the Socs and things would not be normal again they would be the same but maybe worse.
There is other characters in The Outsiders but to me I feel like Johnny was the most heroic. The other characters didn't help the other people of the gang like the way Johnny does. Even though people say Johnny has done some really bad things he made up for doing all those things to save Pony and by saving the kids that were in the burning church. He risked his life because after he had to go to the hospital because metal or part of the roof fell on him and it burnt his back and he was in very bad pain so he ended up dying from

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