Chronicles of a Madman
Published by New American Library
Character Physical Traits
Johnny- Tall, skinny, short black hair, dark venomous eyes
“Johnny was a tall slender type person who hated the way he looked.” “He stared down with dark eyes that seemed to go on as an abyss of space.”
Squee- A small child with short black hair and blue eyes
“Squee was Johnny’s friend, even if he didn’t want to be, it was strange Of Johnny to befriend a child.” “Squee is very short and portly with short black hair and blue eyes that were like giant sapphires.”
Jakki- Tall, slender, long black hair with white streaks down the front sides.
“Jakki was a tall skinny Goth type girl with long black hair typically with white stripes down the front sides.”
Character Personality Traits
Johnny- Johnny is a crazy killer who will stop at nothing to annihilate the world’s population. Johnny is extremely cold hearted person who gruesomely murders any one who makes him mad. This is shown when he rips someone’s spine out of there body simply because the person sneezed on him.
Squee- Squee is very scared and can never grip reality, growing up with the terrible parents that he has. He can never be happy, the only person he has been friends with is Johnny and he is frightened to death of him. Inside Squee is truly a great person, this is shown when he helps a dieing dog heal and stay alive, Squee spent weeks helping the poor dog.
Jakki- Jakki is a strong, intelligent, brave person. She has been on the run from Johnny for almost two years. She has shown that she can overcome the hardest of times when she was right in the grip of Johnny’s wrath she was the only one to survive in a three mile radius.
Setting
This story takes place in a post apocalyptic future world, Johnny chases Jakki all around the world, but the book never really names the specific places. The whole world is in ruins due to Johnny’s wrath.
Plot
The first main event was that Johnny had met Squee. Johnny helped Squee understand that his parents are not the ones turning him into an evil person. Johnny helped Squee become a much better person
Another main event was when Johnny was chasing after Jakki, Being the only person he has never been able to kill has been quite vexing to Johnny. This event has been very exciting.
what?I could get used to this life.? Then they meet Blevins, the foil in the plot that veers the two boys of their course and also plays a role in the lasting change of their personality. Their meeting with him gives an insight into Grady?s character. Rawlins is against letting Blevins come along with them, but because of John?s kind nature he ends up allowing Blevins to come. It?s because of this kindness and sense of morality, he gets into trouble later on.
"Where he should have had a face, there was nothing but dark gray. Where he should have had eyes, there was nothing but a darker colder-looking color. He grabbed my leg and started pulling me down."
He could do tasks even though he was a cripple. He finally had a job that he could do without one hand which also made him feel independent. Another event that transformed Johnny's life was the revolutionary war and the events leading up to it. For example, the Boston tea party affected Johnny and his transformation greatly. That was Johnny's first real time to see what could happen.
One good scene was when Johnny and Ponyboy came to Dally for help after the murder of Bob. They go to Bucks to find Dally and Dally’s help was "Here"--- he handed us a gun and a roll of bills--- "the gun's loaded. For Pete's sake, Johnny, don't point the thing at me. Here's fifty bucks. That's all I could get out of Merril tonight He's blowin' his loot from that last race." ( (Pg53)Another good scene was when the timber was falling on Johnny when he was saving the children, Dally ran in without any hesitation that the building was going to fall and he ran in
The main point is that in chapter 5, Johnny goes inside the church in order to save the kids inside it. Johnny manages to survive the fire at first, however he has gotten the worst injuries out of the fire and is forced to stay in the hospital, this starts in chapter 7 and when they visit Johnny, they tell them that he is in critical condition and that he was suffering from third degree burns, however Dally is fine, but injured. They keep on visiting Johnny in the hospital and they see that he is getting worse and worse. And finally, in chapter 10, Johnny dies after being in critical condition for a long
The main Character in the book that I read is Mickey Bolitar. He has blue eyes,short brown hair, is six feet four inches and weighs just over two hundred pounds. He acts like a normal highschool kid and he can be very curious sometimes. When he got curious about things in the book he usually got in trouble with the police or with his uncle. Like when he was at the “Bat Lady’s” house he went inside without even knocking on the door and when he was inside, somehow the house caught on fire and burned down. The police came and had arrested him for breaking and entering. That time when he was curious he got in trouble with the police not his uncle. His personality is curious,protective,willing,friendly and nice. He was once very protective of his friend Ema when some of the mean guys of the school said “Hey ema mooo!” When he heard that he was about to explode but Ema gave him a look that said don’t. He interacts nicely with the other characters except with the people he doesn’t like and the people that are mean. Mickey was my favorite character in the book.
Before Johnny died from his severe burns and broken back he gave Ponyboy a book, Gone With The Wind, he found a note from Ponyboy saying “stay gold”. Ponyboy’s friendship with Johnny is so strong that he is persuaded to write an English assignment about his experiences. Johnny mentions that saving the children was worth sacrificing his own life. Johnny thinks sacrificing his life for the children is worth his life, because they still have their whole life to live and Johnny was going to get arrested if he would have lived. Johnny wants Ponyboy to do better for himself, and he believes he can achieve anything because he is strong.
Similar to my other two choices, his direct description, “If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you’ll have Johnny… He had big black eyes in a dark tanned face; his hair was jet-black and heavily greased,” made me remember him. The way Pony describes his past and home life with his father always abusing him and his mother harassing him, helped me truly sympathize and not forget him. The last item that made him strong and memorable was his actions. He killed Bob because he thought he was saving Pony and when he realized that was something terrible he decided to save those kids in the church and even though that killed him in the process, he believed giving his life for them was worth
Ponyboy Curtis is a hero, in my opinion. One reason is a hero is because he stayed with Johnny to keep him company when he was afraid to go home because his parents were fighting. To me, this shows loyalty. Another reason he is a hero is because he stood up for Johnny and himself when the Socs came and jumped them. Ponyboy did not want them stomping all over the two of them again, even if it meant he could possible
...t like the rest of the Greasers he wouldn’t kill or nothing no matter what. They could of said Johnny not no killer but don’t push him because he will go off but instead they made it seem like he was a kid that lived in a household that didn’t care about him and that he was a punk and never stood up for himself.
One seemingly minor event that holds greater symbolic significance is when Spiros Antonapoulos is sent to the asylum. This is significant owing to the fact that it is the beginning of the chain of events that causes the other characters to meet John Singer.
The most interesting event was when Johnny and Ponyboy were trying to save the little children from the fire. There was a lot of action and showed the courage in the boys. This event marks what a true hero Johnny and Ponyboy are.
Johnny once was a teen who wasn't cowardly, and stood up for his gang. He was a good man in a rumble and kept his mouth shut around the police, but things changed when he was jumped by the Socs. The assault left him more anxious than ever, and ended up carrying a six-inch switchblade in his back pocket, despite that he was the most law-abiding of the gang. In addition, Johnny didn't do well in school, he had failed a year in school and never made good grades (Hinton 65). But even so, Johnny is more than a quiet, anxious kid who does poorly in school. Notably, when Ponyboy and Johnny were hiding in the church, the pair occasionally read a book called Gone with the Wind in order to pass the time. While they were reading, Ponyboy remarked, "It amazed me how Johnny could get more meaning out of some of the stuff in there than I could--- I was supposed to be the deep one... and I guess his teachers thought he was just plain dumb. But he wasn't. He was just a little slow to get things, and he liked to explore things once he did get them" (Hinton 65). This shows that he is able to comprehend the message and/or significance of a story or concept, albeit it takes him a long period of time. Although he was high-strung, quiet, and seemingly believed to be dumb by his teachers, Johnny is, in truth, quite reflective and
The characters in this book are very round. They each have their own story and have their own problems in life. Let’s start ...
"Don't beat yourself up over it Tie." Lizzy said, she was a girl of 15, Caucasian, long frizzy orange hair and a little bit smaller than Tie.