According to dictionary.com, a hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievement or noble qualities. A hero does not have to be someone who carries out a colossal heroic act or someone who wears bears a cape. A hero does not have to be someone who leaps into a burning building to save peoples lives, but in S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, our heroes did. In S.E Hinton’s, The Outsiders, there are abounding visible and obscured heroic traits in the characters. Johnny Cade is profoundly mistreated and loathed by his family, however, he is possibly single-handedly the most heroic person in this book. He is not only a hero in the aspect of leaping into a burning building but in other facets as well.
Johnnyś most heroic act might have been merely enduring and be tolerating all of his mistreatment, misery, and abuse, although the
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When he decided to hurtle himself into the blazing and scorching church to save those children, he risked his life. In the novel, Ponyboy speaks about Johnny at that moment. “He looked over his shoulder and saw that the door was blocked by flames, then pushed open the window and tossed out the nearest kid… his face; it was marked from falling embers and sweat-streaked, but he grinned at me. That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes”(Hinton, 95). Amidst all the mistreatment and neglect from his parents, along with his trauma from the attack from the Socs, Johnny was always suspicious and scared. Notwithstanding, in light of that moment, in the midst of his heroic deed, he was not scared, contrarily, he was happy. He was doing a good deed and that made him content. Many spectators saw his heroic act, “ I swear you three are the bravest kids I’ve seen in a long time... Mrs. O’Briant and I think you were sent straight from heaven or are you just professional heroes or