Should Johnny Go To The Lytes

Secondly Johnny should have found a gun for Rab because Rab was going into war. Rab would join the fight with or with out a new gun from Johnny and his chances of survival would be better with a new gun. Rab was willing to fight, he was willing to kill, he was willing to die, so a man can stand up.

Johnny finds that he is responsible to take Rab’s place as a soldier after Rab’s death. It casts responsibility on

In his ten years of living with her, he was abused, mentally and physically. He would get whipped, cut, beaten, shot, unfed, etc. then the children were not any better in the neighborhood. They would pick on him, insult him and his mother, beat him when he was alone. But there was one person who was there for him, that person was Officer Malley Jones. He was a well respected officer, and that went especially for Johnny, as one day when the other children were ganging up on Johnny, all

At the beginning of the novel, Johnny didn’t want anything to do with Negroes. He was racist and unkind to them. When he is captured by Cush, a Union soldier who also happens to be a Negro, he refused to follow his orders, only doing so in the end out of fear of what might happen to his family if he is killed. Later, when Cush wanted to learn how to read, seeing how he was never educated, Johnny refused at first, only giving in so that he could deliberately misinform Cush on some specific words, such as broke instead of brought, eagles instead of equal, and more. He didn’t see how Cush wasn’t that much different than himself.

Johnny lost his job as a Silversmith, consequently Johnny lost all of his power with it. He wasn’t allowed back in the Laphams house. Johnny had to find a new job. Looking for a few days he finally found someone who hired him to deliver papers as well as selling them. This man let him live in the attic of his home as long as he worked for him.

Johnny was a southern boy, so he thought black people were “less than others”. While He is captured Johnny hates that he has to take orders from a black

Johnny is not justified in what he did and is guilty because he had the intent to kill. Ponyboy talks about Johnny and the previous attack by saying, “He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body…” (Hinton 34). This shows that Johnny was changed by the previous

Johnny is becoming independent and is stepping into

Rab had the choice to waste the Lorne family’s precious money on Johnny or to save it wisely. Rab should not have hired Johnny for 3 reasons: Johnny was worthless, unskilled, and a burden.

Due to Johnny’s injury to his hand he is unable to make any money and is now just an added expense to the Lapham family. Mrs. Lapham begins insulting Johnny, this causes Johnny to dread everyday in the Lapham household and wish he lived somewhere else. Later that week Mrs. Lapham begins a partnership with a skilled silversmith named Mr. Tweedie to replace Mr. Lapham when he dies. However, for the time being he does Johnny’s old job. This upsets Johnny and ends up causing him to verbally assault him. During the chapter Johnny gets offered several jobs but declines them all because he feels none of them are good enough for him. With his arrogance still in tact he asks Mr. Hancock for a job, but as soon as he sees Johnny’s injury, he declines.

Johnny Cade comes from a broken home, his dad hits him, his mom does not care about Johnny, the only thing he has are his friends, the greasers. Ponyboy, one of his closest friends, is talking about everyone in the gang and when he came to Johnny he said, “Johnny had it awful rough at home”(4). Johnny unlike everyone else in the gang, except Dally, does not have someone in his family that truly cares for him. This affects him because it makes him upset that his parents do not care for him. If Johnny did not have it so hard at home, he would be more content and joyful, and even less scared. Johnny is a little bothered that his parents did not ask about Johnny so Dally goes on and says, “‘my old man don’t give a hang whether i’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter’” (88). When Dally is 10, he gets arrested and is on the streets of New York, which shows how little Dally’s father cares about him. Maybe if his father did care, Dally would be more kind and caring, and like Johnny, more joyful. If Dally’s dad cared, he may still be living with his parents and would not be a greaser. Dally and Johnny are

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

He learns to survive on the streets by joining a gang. Stealing and mugging people were a part of his duty as a gang member. It is reasonable for a teen who is an orphan and homeless to try and live on the streets by stealing or mugging people for money. Is it the right way to survive? Any orphan runaway teen in Johnny's situation may convince themselves that these things are okay in helping them to survive. His desire to survive is driven by fear of

(Hinton 12). Johnny is the most fragile member of the gang, and running away is just a minor example of what he would have done if his friends had not taught him love, or affection, something his parents, and

Johnny’s internal issues are as equally grievous as his external issues. He practically raised his siblings since he was six years old, and started to work in factories when he was seven. Due to his early start transferring to adulthood, he never really had the chance to experience a jovial and enjoyable childhood. Johnny “had been robbed of a large part of that playtime by being compelled to take care of [his siblings] … he had fallen the part of little mother and father as well” (8). Johnny does not have any pleasurable memories to look back on and confirm that his upbringing readied him to steadily transition to adulthood. His mother is not a major help in his life, consequently making him uphold both roles of provider and supporter when it comes to his family. With no time for himself, it was evident in Johnny’s face that “there was no joyousness in him…