“Stay gold‚ Ponyboy‚ stay gold‚” Those are the words that Johnny wrote to Ponyboy before his tragic death. Johnny wanted to let Ponyboy and his best friends know that life goes on and just because there is hardships‚ there still is happiness in the world and that the grass is always greener on the other side. I believe that if Dally had not been killed then all of the gang’s lives would go on living the motto of Johnny. Dally would be alive and still heartbroken from Johnny’s death but he would know
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Part I Main Idea: Along with many other young boys‚ Johnny is an apprentice for Mr. Lapham. Summary: In this chapter the narrator is telling about Johnny’s morning. He wakes up very early in the morning along with the other apprentices. Johnny does a lot more work than most of the other boys because he is stronger and works harder. When he is older Johnny wants to be a successful silversmith and he thinks that he will be more successful than his “master” Mr. Lapham. One of the other apprentices Dove
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Johnny Tremain‚ A Walt Disney Production‚ is about how a silversmith apprentice joins the Sons of Liberty after an accident. With Hal Stalmaster as Johnny Tremain‚ Johnny is a Silversmith apprentice in Boston‚ Massachusetts from a respectable British family. His mom before she dies gives Johnny a cup. This cup signified that he came from a rich British family. Johnny reveals this to his fellow co-worker‚ Cilla‚ who is astonished. Though Johnny came from a wealthy family‚ he wanted to make his own
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I decided to select‚ Johnny Tremain‚ for my book report because of the fundamental and universal ideas the author‚ Esther Forbes‚ employs. Throughout the book‚ Forbes displays the dynamic of his characters and how the American Revolution transformed these boys into men. I appointed this book over others because of its underlying messages about Family‚ Friendship‚ and Patriotism. The cover of the book is nothing special‚ but displays the Revolution as a coming of age. The story begins by describing
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Johnny’s Eulogy Johnny was a nice and I respected him. To us he was brave enough to save people’s lives. I respected Johnny‚ and how he put up with the abuse by his dad. I have never heard him complain either. Sure‚ he’d talk about it‚ but I never heard him complain. Even though he had a tough life he was always happy. I remember watching him save those kids in the burning church‚ risking and putting his life in danger. Only thing on his mind was the safety of those around him. It’s going
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Darius Kash Johnson Child Development Mrs. West What is your identity? Identity is a state of mind in which someone recognizes/identifies their character traits that leads to finding out who they are and what they do and not that of someone else. In other words it’s basically who you are and what you define yourself as being. The theme of identity is often expressed in books/novels or basically any other piece of literature so that the reader can intrigue themselves and relate to the characters
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personalities. Johnny and Dally both have it tough at home and place little value on their lives‚ but they both have very different personalities. Dally is tough and mean‚ but Johnny is sensitive. A main similarity between them is that they both have abusive parents. Johnny and Dally share one big similarity and that is that they both have abusive parents. Johnny’s parents don’t pay any attention to him or they beat him‚ that really bugs Johnny. The rest of the gang notices that and they show Johnny the
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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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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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Anyone can be a hero? Are you one? A hero is someone who helps others and puts them before himself and would risk his life to help them. Ponyboy is not a villain. Johnny kills someone‚ but to protect his friend. Dally could be a hero‚ but he chooses not to be. Who will be the hero in the Outsiders? we shall find out? Pony is a good guy. He is a hero. Pony doesn’t like to be harassed‚ but he doesn’t like seeing anyone else being harassed either. “Leave her alone‚ Dally(page 24). He didn’t want the
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