Is Johnny Particularly Quiet Or Sensitive?

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The reason I think that Johnny is particularly quiet and sensitive is because he was abused all his life, his mom would do it verbally and his dad physically. This would force him into submission and cause him to feel like if he did something wrong he would be punished for it. Johnny still wants his family to love him even though he hasn’t been treated right his whole life. He never sleeps at home and almost always sleeps at one of his friends. His friends are essentially his family and they’re all he’s got. While Ponyboy and Johnny were hiding out in the church Johnny didn’t say anything about missing his family but only missing his friends. While Johnny was in the hospital he didn’t want to see his mother so badly that the effort he made

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