Stay Gold By: Julie Pratt In the end of the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton‚ Johnny Cade’s last words to Ponyboy were “Stay gold‚ Ponyboy. Stay gold…” (pg 148). One way to interpret Johnny’s words would be that he meant for Ponyboy to keep his innocence. Another way would be to say that Johnny meant for Ponyboy to stay true to who he was. It is also possible that he meant for Ponyboy to continue to be a generally good person‚ pure of heart and mind. Johnny’s last words to Ponyboy had a triple
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the eyes of many‚ a hero is the embodiment of good; honest‚ giving‚ and humble. For two criminal teenagers to be considered heroic is strange‚ but for Dally Winston and Johnny Cade‚ sacrificing everything for their closest friends and community is a daily ordeal. Throughout H.E. Hinton’s fiction novel‚ The Outsiders‚ Dally and Johnny are constantly portrayed as dangerous and tough kids involved in illegal activity spouting from their street gang. Although this is true to an extent‚ they are simply
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In The Outsiders‚ it says “Johnny was breathing heavily and I noticed he was staring at the Soc’s hand. He was wearing three heavy rings. I looked quickly at Johnny‚ an idea dawning on me. I remembered it was a blue Mustang that had pulled up beside the vacant lot and that Johnny’s face had been cut up by someone wearing rings…”(page 44).This shows how the Socs do not like the Greasers. They hurt Johnny very badly and it scares Johnny to death‚ even as the months passed. They did
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Summary In The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy and Johnny kills a teenager by stabbing him in the back and are forced to run away from the police to an abandoned church. This all starts in Chapter 1 when Socs jump Ponyboy when he comes back from the movie theater. They cut and bruise him up a lot‚ but before they can do serious damage‚ the gang of Greasers that he belongs to come running just in time to help Ponyboy. Soda gets worried when he sees the injuries‚ but Darry yells at Ponyboy
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giving Johnny and Ponyboy a chance to be heroes. In the book The Outsiders there are many heroes‚ like Ponyboy‚ Johnny and Dally. Ponyboy‚ In his most obvious heroic act he saves multiple children from a burning church. This is heroic because he goes in when nobody else would‚ If he did not come to save them they would have most likely died. Johnny is one of the most heroic of all three. He saves children along with Ponyboy and if he was not there Ponyboy may not of got the job done. Johnny
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of the most influential would be the impact he had on his best friend‚ Johnny. Owen told Johnny that God would tell him when the time was right who was his father. When Owen heard who his father was‚ it was alarming to him when it was through the voice of Owen Meany. While reading the first page of the story‚ Johnny Wheelwright said “he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany” (Irving 1). Johnny and Owen had a close friendship as they both valued each other. When the
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a top of a hill with Johnny. Ponyboy grows and matures in this book. Ponyboy grows during this book mentally and physically. In the book Ponyboy Loses his innocence‚ in the beginning of the book Ponyboy was a good student and he followed rules from his older brother Darry. But‚ towards the end of the story Ponyboy started to get himself into bad situations for example‚ he got attacked Socs and during that fight Johnny ended up killing Bob Sheldon. Ponyboy and Johnny decided to leave town
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Tabby‚ he gave Johnny his baseball cards to show he was sorry and he still loved him. Johnny returned the cards and gave him the armadillo to tell him he loved him too. Owen returned the armadillo without claws because he wanted to show Johnny and Dan that he feels as though he mutilated the person all three of them loved. It was his hands on the bat that swung and hit the baseball causing it to kill Tabby. Owen had a strange bond towards the dressmaker’s dummy. As kids Owen and Johnny would dress
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night the socs make a surprise attack on Ponyboy and his Johnny‚ and in self-defense Johnny kills a soc. They run to a close friends (Dallas) house. Dallas gives them some money and tells them to go to an abandoned church out of town. So they spend a couple nights there. One day after going out to buy groceries they return to the church to see that it is on fire. Ponyboy and Johnny went in to save the children from the burning church. Johnny is trapped inside. Dallas goes into save him. Then‚ the
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are suitable for different parts of this novel perfectly. These lyrics capture the events of Johnny and Ponyboy hiding in the old church in chapter 5. Johnny tells Ponyboy that they need to cut and dye their hair so they won’t be recognised by the police.
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