Johnny The Outsiders Letters

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Dear Johnny, I miss him, he was so important to me and all of his friends, he did not care what people thought about him he just lived his life, I'm sorry for his parents you never even got to know him, you did not even tried to, but that's ok it never really bother him. He was like the puppy of the gang, other people would call it a gang, but it is not, it is a family we are members of this family and Johnny was in the center of it we would not let anything bad happen to him if we saw the social club guys beating up Johnny we would stick up for Johnny we loved him. He never really had a wonderful life he had bad parents he got beat up more than any of us, but he did have some nice moments in his short life, he stood up for what was right, he hated fights and anger he did not want to kill that socs he did it for me that other socs was trying to kill me and drown me in that fountain and I would not. here if it was not for Johnny. He was a greaser but he also stood for human rights if a greaser was being mean to a socs girl he would stick up for the girl even though he meant no harm for the greaser or the socs …show more content…

Dally you might think of someone who robs liquor stores and steals from old lady's and cares about no one but you're wrong he might of done a lot of bad things and he loved to get into trouble and loved the thrill of running from the cops he also never ratted you out if you hit him he would probably hit you back even harder, you don't joke around with dally he does not like jokes. He hated the socs he thought they were the worst and did not belong on this earth. If he got the chance to pound someone's face he would not miss it for the world even if he was in a full body cast he would find a way to get there a hurt some socs. He was not all bad he would do anything for a friend especially if you were in the gang. He was nice

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