Winston‚ Two-Bit Mathews‚ Steve Randle‚ and Johnny Cade. Ponyboy‚ Sodapop‚ and Darry are three brothers that look out for each other after their parents died in a car crash. Dally is one of the roughest of the Greasers. His violent tendencies make him more dangerous than the other greasers‚ and he takes pride in his criminal record. Two-Bit is a wisecracking greaser who regularly shoplifts. Steve Randle is Sodapop’s best friend since grade school. Johnny Cade is Ponyboy’s best friend‚ 16 years old
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Soc’s. The main characters in this story are Ponyboy‚ Johnny‚ Dallas‚ Darry‚ Sodapop‚ and Two-bit. The Soc’s puts Ponyboy Curtis and his best friend Johnny in a bad and dangerous spot. One night at the movies‚ Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri and Marcia after they got Dally‚ the toughest of the Greasers to stop attempting to get with the girls. Sherri and Marcia are from the snobbish and rich group‚ the Socs but that doesn’t bother Johnny and Ponyboy from liking them. That night‚ after the
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Neither Half Full nor Half Empty “Get off of me! Get off of me!” he yelled as he was being backed into the corner of the kitchen. Johnny was getting the shit kicked out of him but what was he supposed to do? Hit his own mother? After enough blood dripped down his face he had to do what he had to do. Johnny never thought of hitting his mother before but with a quick move he picked up in wrestling practice a few seasons ago he quickly ducked under his moms swinging arms and around her back to get
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The author S.E.Hinton uses extreme events to make the argument that given a chance; even those labelled ‘bad’ by society can do good. In the novel The Outsiders the characters that are labelled bad greasers who are placed in challenging situations. Those situations demonstrate that people are not always what they are labelled. S.E.Hinton uses her characters and their actions to persuade us that you cannot label someone until you know them and what they have been through. The novel demonstrates that
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they have never realized before like how everything is rough all over. Johnny and Dally show examples of heroism throughout the story. Johnny showed he was a hero during the Outsiders. First‚ Johnny saved Pony from getting drowned by a Soc. Johnny explained “They were drowning you‚ Pony‚ they might have killed you.” (Hinton 57). This means
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the same thoughts. Johnny was such a huge part of their family for both them and their children. All Roy could do was think of the same questions‚ over and over: What if Johnny didn’t recover? What if something happened and the worse came to worse‚ how would they all deal with it? What would happen if he didn’t wake up? What if Johnny was stuck in his past forever? Where would he go? How would the kids react? How would Johnny react if he did recover‚ but only partly? What if Johnny couldn’t be part
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Outsiders By S.E. Hinton” Johnny and Pony are in the church and are trying to get used to how things will be. Ponyboy wakes in the church and finds a note from Johnny saying that he has gone into town to get supplies. When Johnny returns‚ he brings a week’s supply of baloney‚ cigarettes‚ and a paperback copy of Gone with the Wind. Ponyboy wants to read to him because he remembers that he wanted to read it for a while‚ after seeing the movie together this shows that Johnny is caring and wants Pony
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shine bright in the night sky‚ adding color to the field and giving it an unreal look. A couple light posts light up the side of the road. The field was completely empty and there were no cars passing by. It was extremely quiet. A young boy named Johnny that appears to be about the age of fourteen passes by the field‚ apparently looking for a football that belongs to him and his friends. He looks like he grew up in poverty. He has curly black hair that fall into bangs along his eyebrows‚ and is wearing
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to do that; sometimes ordinary people can unexpectedly turn out to be heroes. In the book The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ one unexpected hero is the character Ponyboy Curtis‚ a poor member of a gang called The Greasers. A second unexpected hero is Johnny Cade‚ a quiet‚ abused teen who is also a Greaser. Being an underdog does not automatically make one a hero‚ though. The character of Dally Winston‚ for example‚ is not quite a hero. An imperfect‚ ordinary person with problems can be a hero if he/she
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Waterfront. 1. - Joey Doyle gets murdered. (pushed off a roof) * Terry gets questioned by the waterfront commissioners about Joey’s murder. * A church gathering (including dockworkers) is held to find out who murdered Joey. Terry is sent by Johnny to rat them out. * Terry hits on Edie (Joey’s sister) * Edie wants Terry to help her find Joey’s murderer. But he is partly to blame. * The cops tell Terry to testify in court. Terry is reluctant and doesn’t want to be a ‘pigeon’.
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