Johnny encounters a truly unpleasant life all through the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. Johnny's guardians constantly beat him up and disregard him. On top of that, he doesn't motivate enough to eat and is even attempting suicide, the greater part of that makes him the gang's pet. "If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you'll have Johnny." Johnny was terrified of his own shadow after he was jumped by the Socs when he was sixteen. In part 4, Ponyboy and Johnny are hanging out close to a fountain. A car stops by. A group of Socs gets out the car. Johnny and Ponyboy attempt to run, but they don’t succeed. One of the Socs holds Pony’s head under the water. Ponyboy