The Makings of a Hero
A hero is a genuine person who cares for the well-being and prosperity of others without seeking any attention for fame or redemption. Heroes are not always wearing capes with super powers. They can be, and usually are, real people. A hero often sacrifices something of their own in order for someone else to succeed or be happy. Heroes are protagonists in story and often work against the antagonist or a force opposing the main character. Heroes possess qualities like bravery, selflessness, and a care for others. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton there are many characters with qualities of a hero. Dally, who gives his life to care for his younger brothers after their parents passed away, and Cherry, who is brave enough to spy on her gang show these qualities. However the most heroic character in The Outsiders is Johnny “Johnnycake” Cade because he is brave, caring, and selfless. A quality that is most admirable in Johnny Cade is how he cares for others and will do anything to help them. He cares for all the greasers and has the strength to help them. When the Socs had gang up on Ponyboy, Johnny kills Bob who was drowning Ponyboy. “Yeah.’ His voice quavered slightly, ‘I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade” (Hinton 51). Although Johnny was terrified he still
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Bravery is standing up for others with courageous behavior. Johnny shows bravery throughout the story in many ways such as defending the Soc girls, Cherry and Marcia. “Leave her alone, Dally. ‘Huh?’ Dally was taken off guard. He stared at Johnny in disbelief… Johnny gulped and got a little pale, but he said, ‘You heard me. Leave her alone” (Hinton 24). Dally flirts with Cherry and Marcia so Johnny calls out Dally to stop since he knows they do not appreciate it. Ponyboy and Dally are surprised because they have never seen Johnny act in such a brave and heroic manner
At the beginning of the novel, Johnny Tremain, Johnny was very proud. Proverbs 8:13 says, “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.” In the story, the proud youth slowly learned this lesson. In the opening, Johnny refused to be friends with the other apprentices, Dove and Dusty. He felt as if he was too good for them although he knew he could easily become their friends, for it says on page five that, “He knew his power and reveled in it. He could have easily made friends with Dove, for Dove was lonely and admired Johnny as well as envied him. Johnny preferred to bully him.” Dove was fed-up with Johnny’s boastful attitude, so when Johnny was constructing a sugar basin and asked Dove to get him a crucible, Dove gave him a cracked one...
Evidence: "You're outta your territory," Johnny warned in a low voice. "You'd better watch it"
Oh Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. Johnny was my best friend, a part of my family. I knew that I could always count on him whenever I needed him. Even though his family was violent with him, he was still there for me. He can also always count on me to be there for him. Other people don't know him as well as I do, I remember all the great times we had looking up at the stars at 1 a.m. in a lot. *pause* We also went to the movies. This one time there were these two pretty good looking girls there, and they were Socs too. They were sweet, nice and funny, they were even nice to us Greasers. Anyway, Johnny wouldn't hurt anyone unless he absolutely had to, Johnny didn't like to fight that often. The only time he would fight would be in the rumble, or if
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I wondered. Dally is tougher than I am. Why can I take it when Dally can't? And then I knew. Johnny was the only thing Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone. 130
Johnny and Pony had gone to the park and the Socs pulled up in their blue Mustang. They got out of their car. Johnny and Pony ran. A Soc pushed Johnny down and said it looks like this Greaser needs a bath and tries to drown Pony. “‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy.’ Bob, the handsome Soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still,” (Hinton, pg. 56). Johnny stabbed the Soc leaving a pile of blood. Johnny is a hero because he saved his best friend’s life.
Many heroes appear in the book The Outsiders. The characters that I think are heroes are Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally. The definition of a hero for me is a person who is brave enough to do things to help someone even if it is a dangerous thing to do.A hero also cares for others and people can rely on them. Ponyboy was a hero because he saved peoples’ lives. Johnny died as a hero because he also saved the kids from the burning church and he was also relied on by his gang members. Dally was hero mainly because he cared for his gang and people relied on him. These three characters were heroes in this book according to my definition of a hero.
To save Ponyboy from the Socs, he kill the Socs Bob though he is really scared and terrified by them. He can take the consequence of killing a man because he needs to save his friend. Another example is that when the church is on fire Johnny not only saves school children but saves Ponyboy by pushing Ponyboy out of the church leaving himself in great danger of being crushed by the building’s falling timbers. He can die for his friend. So it is really sad that such a heroic character died after the church fire incident.
If Johnny would’ve never killed Bob, Ponyboy would’ve died from drowning. Johnny will put others before him. “Johnny shoved me toward the window ‘Get out!’ “ (pg. 93) Johnny could’ve taken that time to get himself out instead of telling Ponyboy to get out. What resulted from this was Johnny got third-degree burns and his back was broken from the piece of timber that fell upon him. He could’ve let Ponyboy get severely hurt and saved himself, but no he didn’t he let himself get hurt which shows he will put others before him. Johnny will risk his life to save friends or people he doesn’t even know. “It was a wonder I didn’t cut myself to death, now that I think about it. ‘Hey Ponyboy.’ I looked around, startled. I hadn’t realized Johnny had been right behind me all the way.” (pg 91) Johnny followed Ponyboy inside the burning church just to save a couple of children. He risked his life to save children he didn’t even know and after the saving the children he got injured which followed up to death. This shows that Johnny will put his life at risk and will save
...hey don’t. Johnny just looked dead. Like a candle with the flame gone. I tried to say something, but I couldn’t make a sound.” (p.148-149)
One good scene was when Johnny and Ponyboy came to Dally for help after the murder of Bob. They go to Bucks to find Dally and Dally’s help was "Here"--- he handed us a gun and a roll of bills--- "the gun's loaded. For Pete's sake, Johnny, don't point the thing at me. Here's fifty bucks. That's all I could get out of Merril tonight He's blowin' his loot from that last race." ( (Pg53)Another good scene was when the timber was falling on Johnny when he was saving the children, Dally ran in without any hesitation that the building was going to fall and he ran in
First, Johnny and Dally both die tragically after making unwise decisions in their lives. Johnny died while rescuing children from a burning church and in the eyes of the rescued children’s parents was a hero. But reluctantly this was not the case. In fact, Johnny had just killed a rival member from the Soc’s in self-defense. After which Johnny tells Ponyboy “‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy.’ As Bob, the handsome Soc was lying there in the moonlight a dark pool growing
He went around town to see if anyone would hire him but most people wanted “whole boys” so Johnny was turned down most of the time. Johnny was still very prideful and he didn’t want to do “low life” jobs.”Yes. I wouldn’t mind so much being a clockmaker or instrument maker. But I can’t and I won”t be a butcher nor a soap-boiler.”(Forbes,61) He went to a printing shop and met a boy named Rab. He liked Rab because he was a nice and intelligent young man. He talked with Rab and they became nice friends. Johnny was offered a job but didn’t want to do it. He went out and decided to go to the rich merchants to look for work. He went to John Hancock’s estate to search for a job. He would have been accepted but Johnny couldn’t write with his left hand and was turned down.”Run away, boy, run away. You knew you could not do the work and yet you came and took up my valuable time and...”(Forbes,72) When he left the estate, a slave of John Hancock handed Johnny a bag full of silver coins. Johnny felt so happy that he treated himself to a feast and went to the market to buy Issannah and Cilla gifts. He went back to the Lapham’s household and presented the gifts to the two girls. When Johnny touched Isannah with his burnt hand, she screamed and told Johnny to go away.”Don’t touch me! Don’t touch me with that dreadful hand!” Johnny felt so sad that he ran to his mother’s grave and wept until he fell asleep. When he slept,
A hero is a man who is distinguished by exceptional courage, nobility. and strength to carry out tasks that involve great risks. A hero can also be a person who fights for other people to help or save them. from their fears and fears. He opposes the villain - a person who does wicked or intentionally harm others in some way, emotionally or otherwise.
Hinton suggests that if a person goes out of their way to help others no matter how small the act, it is heroic. Without a doubt, Johnny shows that he is the most heroic of the Greaser gang in the novel. Johnny lives at home with his abusive father and a verbally abusive mother, he has a rough life. He is truly at home when he is hanging out with the gang. In the gang there’s Dally, Two-Bit, Steve, PonyBoy, Sodapop and Darry are Pony’s brothers they are all known as Greasers.