The Outsiders - Final Essay Is Johnny Cade a Hero? With outstanding level of integrity‚ as well as rectitude despite a distressing home life‚ it would be justifiable to identify Johnny Cade in The Outsiders‚ as a hero. Although some may disagree with this statement by stating that Johnny could never be a hero simply because he killed Bob. However‚ we must remember the salient fact that when Ponyboy was being drowned in the park fountain by David‚ Johnny stabbed Bob on behalf of Ponyboy’s protection
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The Outsiders was released on March 25‚ 1983‚ by S.E. Hinton. In the book‚ it talks about the struggles of living the life of a hood while always being in trouble by the police or getting into fights with the higher class kids they call the “Socs”. The Socs and the Greasers are different and alike in many ways‚ and both are guilty of stereotyping. The Greasers and the Socs are not as different as they think they are‚ though. Both of the groups are kind of braggy in a way‚ and one group is always
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The speaker of the poem “Frankie and Johnnie” is telling the story of two people that were in a relationship‚ where Johnnie was cheating on Frankie‚ and then Frankie kills Johnnie. The poem starts out telling the readert he backstory of Frankie and Johnnie. The speaker says that “Frankie and Johnnie were lovers...They swore to be true to each other/ As true as the sky above;” (ll.1‚3-4)Then it goes on to say that Frankie bought Johnnie a lot of nice‚ expensive things and gave him a lot‚ if not all
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Johnny Tremain Pride Essay Pride is an emotion that has two meanings. With a negative meaning‚ pride is an exaggerated sense of personal status or accomplishments. With a positive meaning‚ pride is a pleased sense of attachment toward one’s own or another’s choices and actions. Johnny Tremain is known to be an extremely prideful person. Johnny has both positive and negative prideful traits that affect him throughout his life. His pride played a large role in his accident‚ and benefited him and other
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“Not Guilty” Story assignment ENG3U1 Teacher: Ms Lopes Period: 3 Date: 20th September‚ 2012 North Albion C.I. By: Sehab Shaikh Guilty or not guilty? A person who sacrificed lives of fifteen officers including him and saved five lives‚ should he be condemned? Lieutenant-Commander Oram and his crew of nineteen soldiers are under threat of losing their lives as there submarine has got a blast and they have air only enough for two days in submarine. As an in charge officer it is Oram’s call
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not every hero wares a cape or needs super powers to be considered heroic. Despite the fact anyone can be a hero. I can give some pretty convincing examples; it only takes three simple stories about three boys that sure made the headlines‚ Ponyboy‚ Johnny‚ and Dally. They proved that no matter who you are you can be a hero. There for when it comes to doing the right thing‚ sometimes doing the wrong thing seems to be the only right thing. For example when it comes to telling an adult about
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The movie Johnny Tremain helped me gain more knowledge about the American Revolution from a different perspective. Johnny Tremain is a work of historical fiction‚ combining real people and events like Paul Revere‚ Sons of Liberty‚ and the Boston Tea Party‚ and fictional ones like Jonathan Tremain‚ Priscilla Lapham‚ and Ephraim Lapham. The fictional characters‚ although these people did not historically exist‚ gave me a personal insight to the actual events that occurred such as the Boston Tea Party
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from the movies. A car filled with socs followed him‚ they jumped him. He remembered that Johnny‚ his best bud‚ got jumped by the same socs. Darry‚ Ponyboy’s oldest brother was worried sick about him‚ finally ponyboy showed up. Darry hit him and Ponyboy ran away‚ found Johnny in the vacant lot‚ sleeping. A car hovered around them‚ five socs jump Ponyboy and Johnny. Ponyboy was drowning the fountain‚ Johnny stabbed the soc and killed him. They went to Dally for help. Dally gave them a gun and said
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this novel‚ Hinton explores the theme‚ social status does not define who you are on the inside. Johnny impacted Ponyboy by murdering Bob. In the novel it reads‚” ‘I killed him‚’ he said slowly.’I killed that boy.’ ” Johnny made this choice because the Socs were drowning Ponyboy‚ holding his head under water in a fountain and Johnny didn’t want to get beat up again. The result ended in Ponyboy and Johnny needing to run away so they won’t get into trouble. Ponyboy now could not go home.
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Many Characters in the book “Johnny Tremain” are Dynamic‚ there are also a few static characters‚ Static is a character which personality doesn’t change much and the opposite for dynamic‚ A dynamic character would be Johnny Tremain‚ two static characters would be Mr. Lapham and Rab. Static is a character which personality doesn’t change much and the opposite for dynamic. Johnny Tremain is a Dynamic character. In the beginning of the book he never would think before he talked for example when he
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