The two best friends; Ponyboy and Johnny, both have similarities and differences. Ponyboy and Johnny had a huge impact on the book. The storyline would be complete different if Ponyboy and Johnny were not included.
There are a few similarities between the two boys, one being they were both not into fighting. They fought because they had to. Ponyboy stated, “Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn’t think of any good reason for fighting except self defense.” (pg. 120) Ponyboy didn’t fight just to fight. He only fought for self defense. When Johnny was in the hospital after the Greasers win at the rumble, Dally and Ponyboy came to see him. Dally told Johnny that they won and Johnny said, “Useless… fighting’s no good…” (pg. 129) Both boys were Greasers, but neither of them believed fighting helped anything. Another similarity there would be is that they both wanted to get away. They both wanted to be known as more than just Greasers. In chapter three when Johnny and Ponyboy were in the empty lot, Johnny explains how much he hated living this way. He was to the point where he said, “I’ll kill myself or …show more content…
Ponyboy and Johnny make up the storyline. Ponyboy is the one ‘writing’ the story. He is the one who is telling us readers what has happened. Johnny is the one who killed Bob when they were drowning Ponyboy. If Bob, the Soc, hadn’t been killed, the story wouldn’t be the same. Ponyboy tells the story of how they ran away, saving the children in the burning church, and the perspective of a Greaser who wanted to amount more than a ‘lousy’ boy with greasy hair. Without these two characters, us readers wouldn’t be able to see the story that took place. Ponyboy believed that the Greasers and Soc’s lived completely different lifestyles, which he figured out wasn’t all that true. The Greasers and Soc’s both had problems in their own lives. Without these boys, the story wouldn’t have been as
There are a few similarities between the two boys, one being they were both not into fighting. They fought because they had to. Ponyboy stated, “Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn’t think of any good reason for fighting except self defense.” (pg. 120) Ponyboy didn’t fight just to fight. He only fought for self defense. When Johnny was in the hospital after the Greasers win at the rumble, Dally and Ponyboy came to see him. Dally told Johnny that they won and Johnny said, “Useless… fighting’s no good…” (pg. 129) Both boys were Greasers, but neither of them believed fighting helped anything. Another similarity there would be is that they both wanted to get away. They both wanted to be known as more than just Greasers. In chapter three when Johnny and Ponyboy were in the empty lot, Johnny explains how much he hated living this way. He was to the point where he said, “I’ll kill myself or …show more content…
Ponyboy and Johnny make up the storyline. Ponyboy is the one ‘writing’ the story. He is the one who is telling us readers what has happened. Johnny is the one who killed Bob when they were drowning Ponyboy. If Bob, the Soc, hadn’t been killed, the story wouldn’t be the same. Ponyboy tells the story of how they ran away, saving the children in the burning church, and the perspective of a Greaser who wanted to amount more than a ‘lousy’ boy with greasy hair. Without these two characters, us readers wouldn’t be able to see the story that took place. Ponyboy believed that the Greasers and Soc’s lived completely different lifestyles, which he figured out wasn’t all that true. The Greasers and Soc’s both had problems in their own lives. Without these boys, the story wouldn’t have been as