Outsiders By S.E. Hinton “Dally risked his life for us‚ to keep Johnny out of trouble.” (Pg. 117.) This is a quote from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders‚ a novel about two social groups‚ the Greasers and the Socs‚ and how the war between them cost three lives. The book is in the perspective of Ponyboy Curtis‚ a sensitive Greaser who is put in the middle of the social conflict when he friend Johnny kills a Soc in self-defense. Ponyboy and Johnny run away to escape the law‚ and to do so go to their friend
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The only characters who appear in the text are the mother (Mrs. Wilson)‚ her son Johnny and Johnny’s new black friend Boyd. The protagonist in this story is Mrs. Wilson. It is also a third person narrator from her point of view. The fact that the mother is white and Boyd is black is an important factor considering this story‚ as the story is about the prejudices of white people towards black people. When Johnny brings Boyd home with him‚ the first thing Mrs. Wilson notices is that he is black
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Johnny Cade suffered a lifetime of feeling neglected and unwanted by his abusive parents. At the beginning of this story‚ Ponyboy Curtis‚ a fellow gang member‚ begins by introducing all of his close friends to the readers. Johnny’s backstory is given at this point which mentions Johnny’s rough home life. “His mother ignored him... you could hear her yelling clean down at our house.” ( Hinton‚ 12) Johnny takes his parent’s hatred towards him personally‚ causing him to change his view of the world
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of the story. In the outsiders‚ Johnny‚ Dally‚ and Ponyboy are heroes‚ they all risk their lives for others than themselves. To begin with‚ Johnny proves he is a hero throughout the story. First‚ he acts like a hero during the fire. Anyone who will risk themselves to save others is a hero at that moment. "In the back‚ I guess‚" I hollered‚ and we started stumbling through the church." (pg. 92) This proves that Johnny is a hero in the novel The Outsiders because Johnny sacrificed themselves to save
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character Ponyboy Curtis was an immature fourteen-year-old who caused much tension in his family and ultimately the death of three people. Secondly‚ I believe the main characters should have been Johnny Cage and Dallas Dally Winston‚ both young men died tragically after making mistakes in their lives. Johnny died while rescuing children from a burning church and in the
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what you would call the not so popular kids that are always getting in trouble‚ or so everyone assumes. My first reason that you can depend on friends is a purposeful claim is‚ because when Bob( a Soc) was trying to drown Pony-Boy in the fountain‚ Johnny killed Bob. Obviously this isn’t a good thing but it was either Bob or Pony-Boy. In the text on page 51 it says "Bob‚ the handsome Soc‚ was lying there in the moonlight doubled up and still." After
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rival gang. Johnny was beaten up by the socs and it made johnny very grievous. Chapter 3/4: They were hanging out with soc’s girls‚ and they found them hanging out with the girls. The socs are irascible and that makes them very dangerous. Johnny and Ponyboy were jumped by 5 socs‚ one of them tried to drown Ponyboy. They jumped Ponyboy and Johnny because they were hanging out with their girls. But Johnny stabbed Bob one of the main socs. Johnny and Ponyboy ran away. Chapter 5/6: Johnny and Ponyboy
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He is Ponyboy’s least favourite member of the gang‚ Pony sees him as tougher colder and meaner. Johnny and Pony turn to Dally when they need help escaping after Johnny kills Bob. Dally is there for them as he gives Pony the coat off his own back so Pony could keep warm. Dally also gives them a gun and a place to hide. At the end of the book Johnny dies which makes Dally very sad and reacts in a bad way. Dally goes and steals that night and the cops started chasing him.
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When Greasers‚ Ponyboy‚ Johnny‚ and Dally‚ go to the movies‚ they meet two Socs named Cherry and Sandy. When the movie ends‚ Ponyboy walks Cherry home‚ and she explains to him the misconceptions the Greasers have about Soc life. She tells him that although the Greasers believe
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for putting Johnny in another life or death situation when they attacked Ponyboy and attempted to attack him after. “I had to. They were drowning you‚ Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade... they were gonna beat me up--- "Like..."--- I swallowed--- "like they did before?" Johnny was quiet for a minute. "Yeah‚" he said‚ "like they did before.”This
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