Johnny Got His Gun

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    help him escape. Though, Dally pulls out a gun as the cops start to shoot him. Ponyboy is sick to his stomach when Dally also dies. He then has to attend court for the surrounding events. Ponyboy and Darry then realize that all of the conflict is really affecting Sodapop. They then agree to stop feuding with each other and their rivalries as they realize it is pointless. Ponyboy returns to school the following Monday. He then needs a writing prompt for his English semester theme. He decides to…

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    Identity In The Outsiders

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    of an author that reveals identity effectively, for she wrote the characters Johnny and Dally in The Outsiders very well. Identity is an important process that will never be complete. Johnny Cade is a sixteen-year-old boy who lives with an abusive father and mother. On the other hand, he has a group of greaser, poor or low-class, friends that are very close to him, and is considered the “pet” or the…

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    basically The movie started off when Ponyboy got jumped by the greasers after he was walking home from the movies. Just like what it said in the book. a little farther in the movie they went to a drive-in movie where they met Cherry and Marcia. Which is when trouble started to form in the book and the movie. When the movie was over Ponyboy and johnny were walking them home until all of a sudden their boyfriends who were riding in a blue mustang got out and made Cherry and Marcia leave. When…

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    loved. Johnny from The Outsiders definitely felt like his family didn’t love him. The text says, “I think I like it better when the old man’s hittin’ me...At least than I know he knows who I am...I walk in the house and nobody says anything. I walk out, nobody says anything. I stay away all night, nobody notices. At least you got Soda. I ain’t got nobody...It ain’t the same as having your own folks care about you.” He feels that his parents don’t care about him, they don’t love him. When Johnny…

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    Dally: A Short Story

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    The doctors were able to tell us that Johnny will be out next week. We’ve been waiting for months to hear this information, and we already lost Dally. It was a tragic thought. He was running from the police, and they shot him. Maybe, if we heard this information early, Dally would still be alive. He was fed up, and he thought Johnny was dying, which he was. Dally went and robbed a grocery store. Pointing his trick gun at the police, you could tell this is what he wanted. He was overcome with…

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    The characters are Ponyboy Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Two-Bit Mathews, Steve Randle, Dallas Winston, Johnny Cade, Sandy, Cherry Valance, Marcia, Randy Adderson, Bob Sheldon, Paul Holden, Jerry Wood, Tim Shepard, Curly Shepard, and Mr. Syme. Ponyboy is the main character, he speaks in first person. He is in a gang (greasers) but more of a family. This take place in Oklahoma but unsure about the year. But by guessing, somewhere around 1990 or 1980. Also in a lower class area. Ponyboy used to have…

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    were lots of wagons speeding past John with scared looks on their faces. As he got closer to home, he saw smoke coming over the hill right where his house is. So John sped up and his horse was in a full sprint, faster and faster his horse went, but home seemed to be getting farther away. Thirty minutes past till he finally made it home, but it was too late the house was already burned to the ground. He jumped off his horse and ran into the burnt down building. He could smell the smoke and…

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    1996, the most shocking thing happened! Johnny Spital entered the hospital in critical condition after being shot by his lover; Or so she was. His girlfriend Frankie Connors, discovered him In the window of another woman's home on South Clark Street. “I couldn’t believe my eyes!” Connors spilled to the police. Apparently, for the first time ever, Connors caught her beloved man, in his amoral act. “She came in for a beer and asked if I had seen Johnny. I told her I saw him with this woman by…

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    Johnny Gallant Quotes

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    many times. In the book, he helped Johnny and Ponyboy got away with murder. This is very brave because he could get in serious trouble helping them. This is selfless because Dally could not get anything good out of helping them. Helping them did not benefit Dally at all. Well Ponyboy and Johnny are at the church, Dallas comes to visit them and took them out to get food. This shows gallantness because he did not have to visit them. He could’ve got caught on his way there or when he was actually…

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    The Outsiders Comparison

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    Eastside and Westside brings complications. Throughout “The Outsiders” written by S.E. Hinton, there are fights between the rich, smart Socs and the poor and lower education Greasers. Ponyboy’s going through a tough time and it doesn’t help when his best friend Johnny kills someone in the rival gang. There are many differences and similarities in the book and the movie “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton. Many elements were similar while some of the character relationships and scenes were…

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