How Does Johnny's Choices Affect The Family In The Outsiders

Superman Returns “’Don’t you ever use your head?’” These are the words of Darrel Curtis, or Darry, from The Outsiders by S.E Hinton that he repeatedly states in the novel to his youngest brother, Ponyboy. The Outsiders is a realistic fiction novel that includes two main groups, the Greasers and the Socs, who were always getting into brutal fights with each other. The main problems in this novel are stereotyping and finding your identity. Darrel Curtis is the unofficial leader of the Greasers.

People are often judged upon their traits. If willed, these traits can improve, leaving the person with a better overall personality. One of the more pronounced character examples is the character Johnny, in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. The book follows the story of a battle between rich, West-side social clubs and poor, East-side gangs. Johnny is a part of the gang from the wrong side of the tracks. He is abused and always has a defeated look in his eye, but even Johnny can change. Throughout the novel Johnny is scared, brave, and accepting. Johnny goes through tremendous change throughout the novel.

To begin with, the setting takes place in multiple areas. Which makes the storyline change constantly and becoming different as the setting changes and the time of the day or night. “The park was about two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming pool for the little kids…” P. 53 This setting was huge to the story because this is where the main plot is occurring, this setting and place and time was the exact moment where everything began to go down. “ ‘ Pony , I didn’t mean to!’ but I was already at the lot by then and pretended I couldn’t hear.” P. 50. When Darry hit Ponyboy, Ponyboy knew that he

He didn‘t make a sound, but tears were running down his cheeks. I hadn‘t seen him cry in years, not even when Mom and Dad had been killed and in that second what Soda and Dally and Two-Bit had been trying to tell me came through. Darry did care about me, maybe as much as he cared about Soda, and because he cared he was trying too hard to make something of me and ―that was his silent fear then—of losing another person he loved.” Ponyboy and Dally have always had a rocky relationship. Ponyboy resents Dally as he thinks he is too controlling.

Why does Darry care about Ponyboy. Maybe to make sure he doesn’t have the life that Darry had. He shows this by checking Pony’s grades and makes sure he does his homework right, or he protects Pony. Another way is that he works 2 jobs just so that he can go to school.

In chapter 3, Darry and Ponyboy got into a fight, in which Darry hit Ponyboy. This fight resulted in Ponyboy and Johnny killing a Soc, runnning away, going missing for five days, and getting Ponyboy injured and Johnny dead. The boys returned home when they were rushed to the hospital after being wounded from a fire. Once Ponyboy came to in the hospital, he saw Darry, crying. "Darry didn't like me... he had driven me away that night... he had hit me...he didn't give a hang about me... Suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying... Darry did care about me..." (98). Ponyboy ran to Darry, hugged him, and started sobbing. The two brothers stood in the waiting room, hugging and crying together. Daarry never scolded Ponyboy about him running away, because he was focused on Pony's health. He stayed at the hospital that night. Darry loves Pony, and now Pony knew.

One moment in the book when Darry lashes out on Ponyboy is when he comes home late one night. A quote I found from that night in the novel is “He didn’t use to be like that… we used to get along okay… before Mom and Dad died. Now he just can’t stand me” (Pg. 51). When Ponyboy says “Now he just can’t stand me,” it shows that he thinks Darry hates him but in reality, Darry has high expectations for Ponyboy because he gets good grades and just wants to keep him safe because their parents died so Darry is the like the parent now. Another quote I found that also shows Ponyboy really doesn’t like Darry is “He thinks I’m a pain in the neck. He likes Soda-everybody likes Soda-but he can't stand me I bet he wishes he could stick me in a home somewhere, and he’d do it, too, if soda’s let him.” (pg. 42). Just so you know, this was after the movies when Two-bit, Johnny, Marcia, and Cherry were walking home. So, I think this quote is also about how Ponyboy thinks Darry doesn’t like him because he says things like he thinks if Soda weren’t alive, Darry would just leave him which shows Ponyboy isn’t very fond of Darry. This evidence shows that Ponyboy has the thought that Darry dislikes him. Therefore, Ponyboy hates him because of the way he is treated.

The Socs, or socials, and the Greasers have been feuding for as long as anyone can remember. In this particular fight, someone ends up dead. Johnny, one of the greasers, has killed Bob Shelly, the leader of the Socs. Johnny is not justified in what he did and is guilty because he had the intent to kill, the Socs didn’t have the intent, and Johnny killed Bob, who didn’t cause any physical harm in the fight.

The main theme of 'The Outsiders' is that friends are your chosen family. In other words, the people in your inner circle along with your family, are the friends you choose to have there. This is present with many characters in the book, in fact, the only three 'Greasers' that did not seem to have their friends closer than their family were Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry. However, these three boys had many people in their lives who loved their friends more than their family, such as Johnny, who's dad beat him, and mom neglected him, and Dally who had no relation with his parents, then there is Darry, who loves his friends like family, and he is one of the only ones that knows what true family love feels like.

How can two characters that have such a similar lifestyle, be so extremely different? In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the author proves that such instances happen. Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade have very similar lives, but are completely different people. Johnny is more of a sensitive person and always likes to follow the rules. While Dallas on the other hand, loves to break the laws and do the wrong thing. These two characters are very similar on the inside, but are very different on the outside.

He has driven Ponyboy away in a night, he had yelled to Ponyboy very frequently even hit Ponyboy occasionally. Therefore, Ponyboy believed Darry didn’t like him. However, when Ponyboy was hurt by fire in church, Darry changed Ponyboy’s impression of him. “ He was stroking my hair and I could hear the sobs racking him as he fought to keep back the tears, ‘ Oh, Pony, I thought we’d lost you… like we did mom and dad…’ That was his silent fear then…of losing another person he loved. I remember how close he and dad had been, and I wondered how I could ever have thought him hard and unfeeling.” (S.E Hinton P71) This quotation is between Darry and Ponyboy. The church that Johnny and Ponyboy hid in caught fire, some children were trapped in the church, Johnny and Ponyboy tried their best to save the children and they got hurt during the process they rescue in the church. When Ponyboy wake up in the hospital, Darry came to visit him. Through the plots we can find that Darry was changed a lot, his concern to Ponyboy is diametrically different than he used to be. He shows his weakness but not shows his tough aspects. Therefore, Ponyboy finally knows Darry loves him deeply and their relationship getting closer. Emotionally and spiritually, their relationship is more like father and

Two different age kids in The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, turn out to have a lot in common but, also a lot dissimilar. Johnny and Dally both do not have a strong relationship with their abusive, neglectful parents but, at least they have the gang. On the other hand, Dally likes to fight and Johnny does not, so in the end Johnny dies as someone to look up to and Dally dies a thief. Throughout the story they both show different emotions towards their parents, gang members, and each other.

The Outsiders is a novel by S.E. Hilton that is about the immature street kids in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There are 2 groups called the Greaser and Soch’s and they’re divided by their socioeconomic status. The outsiders are on the poor side of town and the Soch’s are the rich side and drive around with the corvettes. They have a huge feud with each other including brawls and killing. There are too younger boys name Johnny and Ponyboy. Ponyboy didn’t like home so he decided to run away with Johnny, they ended up getting jumped and Johnny killed a kid which made them run away to eventually needing to help children in a fire. When helping the kids Johnny, Ponyboy, and there friend Dally all got injured. Johnny ends up dying making Dally go crazy and getting gunned down by police. Sometimes being a hero isn't always the decision.

This shows that Ponyboy feels harmed by Darry. These events show the turmoil of Ponyboy’s

In S.E. Hinton’s the Outsiders there are two gangs, the socs and the greasers. The socs are the rich kids who have awesome cars and nice clothes, and think that they run the town. The greasers are the poor kids, they often get into trouble with the police and get jumped by socs. Johnny and Ponyboy are two greasers and were walking in the park one night when five socs confronted them. Johnny and Pony had previously been taking two of the socs’ girls home. Things quickly escalated, and Johnny eventually stabbed Bob, who died from the wound. Johnny IS justified in what he did and is not not guilty because Ponyboy was being drowned, Johnny was afraid for his own life, and he had to stab Bob in order to prevent more injuries by scaring away the socs.