Growing up on the southside of town, I knew when someone wanted to be a hero and when someone wanted to have fifteen minutes of fame. Johnny Cade was one of the people who wanted to be a hero. He could have just walked away. He wasn’t just doing the right thing because there were other men there who could have helped. He could have waited for the fire department to arrive. But he didn't. He decided to take action and save the kids. Johnny is the hero of The Outsider because if he is committed to whatever he does, he brought his gang to act like a family, and he was able to take a beating and still be able to care about others. . Heros need to be committed to what they start. If they start something, they need to finish it. Johnny committed to a lot of things. Not all of them might not be heroic, but it shows that he is committed. One example of when Johnny committed to something is when Johnny asked Ponyboy to read Gone with the Wind. Sadly Johnny got severely injured and ended up in the hospital. That didn’t stop Johnny from …show more content…
That is what Johnny does with his gang. Johnny brought his gang together many of times. Some examples of this is when Johnny passed away. The gang realized that maybe they don’t need Johnny. They realized that may have helped them work as a family, but they could do it without him. On the same occasion, Ponyboy, Darry, and Sodapop realized that they need to start caring about how the other people around them feel when they fight. If johnny hadn’t have died, then Darry and Ponyboy wouldn’t have thought about others feel when they fight. Johnny was known as the gang’s peacekeeper. Ponyboy says on one occasion, “ He was the gang's pet, everyone's kid brother.” You might see it in a different way, but I see this meaning that he was the one who kept the gang from fighting all the time because they didn't want to hurt Johnny. There is one last thing the makes Johnny a