Johnny Cade Persuasive Essay

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MURDER!! We are talking about Johnny Cade killing someone on that night. He had said these words, “Stop it!”johnny gasped from between his clenched teeth. “Shut up about last night! I killed a kid last night. He couldn’t of have more than seventeen or eighteen, and I killed him.” He had killed bob because he did not like the socs and, to be honest and don’t know what the greasers have against the socs or the socs have against the greaser but they fight way too much and, that caused this young man to kill Robert Sheldon. As I was saying that is what caused Johnny Cade to kill Robert Sheldon. He also did it for self defense but he killed him.
He was doing self defense because they were drowning Ponyboy and he would have not let anything happen

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