Johnny In The Outsiders

Johnny’s personality changed from arrogance to humility throughout the book. In the first part of the book Johnny was puffed up in pride. Such as, when he woke up the other apprentices and said “Wake up you lazy slobs! It’s time for work.” Another instance in which he showed self - importance was when Mr. Lapham was reading the bible, but then he asked Dove to read a

The author of The Outsiders is S.E Hinton. Johnny is a sad beat up kid who is not loved by his parents. His role model in life is Dallas Winston, He is his role model because Johnny thinks he is living proof that you can grow up without a family or anyone that loves you. He is the gang’s pet and everyone in the gang likes him.

For Johnny's age, he is vastly selfish and he is a leader, but he sets the wrong example and is too prideful. Some days at breakfast Mr. Lapham would have Johnny read bible verses about the sin of being prideful, but it did not seem to help much (Forbes 15-17). Above all, Johnny is displaying more development and is realizing there are consequences for his actions. He learns this when he is breaking Sabbath on Sunday and he burns his hand working on the silver piece. This happened because Johnny happened to be bossing Dove around, so he gave Johnny a cracked crucible, expecting Johnny to mess up on the work and get in trouble.

He sacrifices himself to save his friends and innocent children, and also shows no regret for it, despite losing his own life, shown in his dialogue ‘It’s worth saving those kids, their lives are worth more than ours’ (page 216) This demonstrates that he no longer fears death and that he feels that his life was not wasted because he saved the children. Johnny also ran into the church with Ponyboy, demonstrating that he would do anything at the side of his friends. This helps the reader to understand many of the key themes in the novels, as it shows that the bond that the gang shares is stronger than any other bond they

Today, kids are beaten but also Johnny was. He was a light skinned boy with long dark hair and dark honest eyes. S.E. Hinton was the author of the book Outsiders. Johnny was the one who was quiet and scared of his own shadow because he as jumped and hurt really bad. Johnny is gentle.

But for me, I think he is innocent. One reason why I think Johnny is innocent is because he was trying to save Ponyboy. In the text, The Outsiders, Johnny said, “I had to, they were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you!” Now if you tell me, that is good evidence and Johnny was trying to save Ponyboy from drowning.

He is a very shy, polite and nervous around other people than the gang. He considers the gang family because his father abuses him and his mother does not care. Johnny would rather sleep in the vacant lot than going home to his family. During the novel, when the church catches fire, Johnny becomes brave and goes in to save the children. It shows that in the beginning of the

Through his life, he has been abused by both of his parents, with no adult guidance except for the older kids in the neighborhood. Inside the book of ‘The Outsiders,’ it stated that, “ … Johnny banged up

This stamps him as an ill mannered, reckless person. However, this could not be farther from the truth. HInton reveals this by telling his story, and showing who he truly is through his actions and dialogue. Johnny's three main character traits are, timidness, quick thinking, and emotionally unstable. He is like this because

Even in his own home, he doesn’t feel right. A quote about him from page twelve that shows this is, “His father is always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked up at something…” Both Johnny’s mother and father abuse him. His mother makes sure he knows that he isn’t wanted, and Johnny’s father likes to use him as a punching bag. He is also seen as an outsider in the Greasers. On page twelve, he is described as, “Johnny Cade was last and least...” and “He had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes.” This means that out of all the Greasers, Johnny Cade is the smallest, most cautious, and most of all, afraid.

Johnny's personality changed throughout the book. At the beginning of the book, Johnny was immature. He was too full of himself and did not think before he spoke. By the end of the book, he was more mature. He became more humble and less easily angered. In chapter one, Johnny was overly proud and arrogant. Then, in chapter two, his hand got burnt and he lost his pride.

Coppola used lighting, by putting the light/sun directly behind Johnny's head giving it a bhoke effect and making the edges of his face soft. By lighting, it was clear to see that Johnny was relieved and happy at that moment. The editing of the colour of the clouds was amazing because it gave a warm feeling and made Johnny say “I never noticed colours and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them. It seems like they were never

Johnny can be described as scared for many reasons. An example is when he was in the hospital and was scared of dying. On page 121, he says “I don’t want to die now. It aint long enough. Sixteen years aint long enough.” This shows Johnny was scared and not ready to die, because his sixteen years on the streets he had learned and seen all the wrong things. Another example is when Johnny gets scared when the Socs come down the road in their mustang. Page 31, Ponyboy tells how Johnny started breathing heavily and was staring at the Socs hand, who was wearing three rings. Therefore, that is why Johnny is scared everywhere he goes because he fears getting jumped by the Socs again. From these examples it is clear that Johnny is scared of dying

In The Outsiders, Johnny goes through extreme situations that force him to come of age. When he first appears in the book, he is a shy, nervous 17-year-old. He is first described as the gang’s pet because he is the weakest of the group. He had an abusive dad and a mother who neglected him, so he learned to just keep quiet, and always had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes. This was what Johnny was like in the beginning of the story, before he came of age. Johnny didn’t come of age until an extraordinary circumstance changed that. Johnny was walking with Ponyboy when their rival gang, the Socs, saw them and got out of their car, ready to fight. They started drowning Ponyboy, holding his head under the water in the fountain, leaving Johnny no choice than to fight back. Johnny had a blade on him, and after being beaten really badly by the Socs before, he was prepared to use it. “‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy.’ Bob, the handsome Soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still” (Hinton 56). Johnny had never been the type of person to do something

The other “greasers” in their gang don’t have abusive parents, but Johnny did and I think that really affected how he felt after the beating. It fortunately gave him motivation to not do suicide. The attack situation did affect him negatively and I think Johnny got reminded of just how worthless he thought he was when the “Socs” beat him since his parents did the same thing. “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him”. Ponyboy, his friend, said, “I think he hated that worse than getting whipped” referring to the beating. I do agree with some aspects of his perspective. I get that he’s mad and angry, and I also get that he’s sad. I would be mad too, however I don’t agree with how he kept the grudge against the “Socs”.I also agree with how he keeps trying to go on instead of giving up. He fights the feelings of suicide so he can try to prove to everyone that he’s better than a “greaser”. Even though the thoughts come back later, he tries to push them down instead of embracing them. This is something I would try to do if I was ever in this