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Without a doubt, Johnny is a dynamic character in The Outsiders. Johnny’s last words tells Pony to preserve his innocence and be open to the world. Johnny is generous and kind to all people. Stay gold… (Hilton, 148) This shows that he cares about Pony’s character and how he will affect the world once he dies. All the people in his gang love to fight, but Johnny wants to avoid it and stay young. Towards the resolution of the novel, while Johnny is lying helplessly on the bed while the Greasers and Soc battle, Johnny realizes how fast life can end, and that fighting is useless to solve a conflict. Throughout the story, Johnny does great acts of courage thus altering his personality. Johnson behavior when he and Pony enter the church even though they knew that they were risking their lives. This is a turning point in the story because we can see a change in Pony sees a group of children in the back of the church having a picnic and Johnny is determined to save them. When they were driving back to the church, they see it burning probably from a cigarette they lit earlier. Johnny is willing to do anything to save a friend’s life, which demonstrates his generosity and audacity. Later on in the story, Johnny kills Bob for trying to drown Pony in the fountain.
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He starts to speak up for himself and people acknowledge him for doing so. Dally stops and the girls thank Johnny for standing up for them. He lives in constant fear of something bad happening to him even though he has his whole gang supporting him and preventing him from committing suicide In the middle of the book, Johnny tells Dally to stop harassing the Soc girls. After being jumped by the Soc and being abused by his parents, he acts suspicious all the time.Īnd if he was not being abused by his arenas, he would be ignored, and to escape this torture, he stays away from home for long periods of time.
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This quote shows how Johnny appears in the eyes of his gang members, but Johnny was not like this from the time he was born. Pony describes Johnny as “a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers… ” (Hilton, 11). In the beginning of the story, Johnny is a sad little boy. The model Johnny used is a hubertus shell puller, which is expensive in real life, so it is unkown how he got it.Johnny is a dynamic character because e starts off as a shy little boy to a confident and noble teenager.
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He later lends his switchblade to Dally when he is in the hospital - Dally uses it to threaten the doctor into letting him and Pony see a dying Johnny after the rumble. However, he does use it to threaten Randy and Bob when the Socs arrive to stop Johnny, Pony and himself from taking their girlfriends, Cherry Valance and Marcia home from the movies. Two-Bit uses a black-handled switchblade he stole from a hardware store as a showpiece, flaunting and flashing it every chance he got, although Pony says that Two-Bit used a regular pocket knife when he needed a blade. Johnny uses a switchblade knife to kill Bob by stabbing him because the Socs were going to drown Pony and beat up Johnny the night the two went to see a drive-in with Dally, Two-Bit, Cherry, and Marcia. Darry says that, if he had to go alone, he should have carried a blade, but Sodapop argues that it would have been a good excuse for the Socs to kill him. The switchblade is carried by most greasers, as well as some Socs - the Soc who jumps Ponyboy in the beginning of The Outsiders cuts his neck with a switchblade before being chased away by Pony's gang. It consists of a sharp metal blade and a switch handle that unfolds the blade from the handle, allowing for a very compact and concealable knife. The switchblade is a weapon that features prominently in The Outsiders.