Who Is Johnny In The Outsiders

“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world.”- Johnny Cade (Pg. 179)

The Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton, is a novel in the 1960’s that focuses the relationship not only between a group of friends who are poor named the Greasers, and high-class kids called the Socs who live on the other side of town, but also the friendships within. Ponyboy was a caring person, shown through his respect to Randy (one of the Socs), relationship with Johnny after the death of Bob Sheldon, and saving kids from a church fire.

First, when Ponyboy had realized that his own best friend had killed a Soc, he wanted to do something about it. When Ponyboy and Johnny had been beaten up by the Socs, Johnny used his self-defense and stabbed one of the Socs named Bob Sheldon. However, Ponyboy didn’t turn away from his best friend, Johnny, and forget about him. On page 26, Ponyboy said,” You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do.¨ This demonstrates that when Johnny had killed Bob, Ponyboy had not ran off, but supported him, when he needed it. Additionally, other people might have turned away from someone who had done something horrible like, killing a person, but Ponyboy decided to go into the opposite direction and help out his old buddy.

But Ponyboy’s selfless mind thought that a fire was no going to stop him from saving helpless kids from a church fire! When he went into the church to rescue the kids from the fire, he had passed out, however an adult named Jerry was on the ambulance with him on the way to the hospital. “Mrs. O’Briant and I think you were sent straight from heaven,” said Jerry. So, when Jerry had said this, he meant that Ponyboy was really brave and caring, to save those little kids from a fire, that he could die from. However, Ponyboy was so kindhearted, and decided to risk his life for