What motivated Johnny to risk his life and run into the burning church to save the schoolchildren, was the way Dally spoke to him, in a tone he never uses, and that Dally cared about Johnny. To begin with,“Dally never talked like that. Never. Dally didn’t give a Yankee dime about anyone but himself, and he was cold and hard and mean. He never talked about his past or being in jail that way (Hinton 90).” This quote proves that Johnny got motivated because of Dally because, Dally’s way of talking was usually hard and mean. But when he talked to Johnny like that, it made Johnny feel like somebody cared for him, because his parents don’t care about him, and he feels unwanted, but now with Dally talking to him like that, it made it feel like he
