Many people would describe a hero to be someone with a cape on their back saving the world from its terrors, but let's face it that isn’t reality. A hero is a person of any race, upbringing, wealth income, age, and so forth that has a good heart and does deeds purely for the help of others rather than the show of it. An example of this would be Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Darry Curtis from the so called “hood” in a gang called the Greasers. Although they all have been through a lot and seen a lot in their years of living this has definitely shaped their minds and hearts on their actions. All in all, these young men have proven throughout the chapters one through six that they have these characteristics fit to be a hero. To begin with, Darry Curtis is the oldest brother of the three …show more content…
An example of this is when himself, Ponyboy, and Dally were at the drive-in and Dally was being extremely vulgar to the two attractive Socs in hopes of starting a conversation with them. Luckily, before anything gets to extreme Johnny cute Dally off and told him to quit his talking and to get lost. When stops Dally from his actions he says, “"Leave her alone, Dally”(Hinton, 22). This showed a lot of courage because normally he idolizes Dally but realized that what he was doing was wrong and inappropriate. Adding on to my previous statements, Johnny shows heroism when they tried drowning Ponyboy and used his switchblade for defense. Also, later on in the novel the church on Jay Mountain catches on flames and as soon as it comes to his knowledge that it was most likely his fault he races into the church to save the kids inside. This clearly displays characteristics of heroism from stopping Dally from inapporpriately harassing the girls, stopping the Socs from drowning POnyboy, and saving the kids in the church carelessly risking his life is a significant sign to me of