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Over the past few years of Johnny’s life, his feelings for Cilla have changed. At the beginning of the book, we are told that Johnny has “no particular objections” (Page 7) to marrying Cilla. You can see them start to slowly click when Johnny reveals the truth about the cup and his middle name. Once Johnny burns his hand, Cilla begins to take sympathy for Johnny and secretly helps him. Page 51 states: “But someone would usually slip a piece of hard bread, cheese, jerked beef, or salt fish and johnnycake in the pocket of his jacket as it hung on its hook. He knew it was Cilla, but he never spoke to her about it.” After Issanh got scared of Johnny’s hand, he took it out on the two girls. He claimed to Mrs. Lampham on page 81 that he wouldn’t marry “that girl even though you gave her to me on a golden platter.” Ironically, Johnny is later sent to court and wants Cilla to testify for him. After Cilla helped him out of trouble, Johnny Tremain started to respect her. He had the confidence to look for a new job and began to meet up with her in secret every Thursday and Saturday afternoon. …show more content…

Her consistency irritated him. On page 132, it says: “That very feminine faithfulness of the girl irritated him, but he had not admitted this to himself.” Once Rab discluded him in time with Cilla, Johnny was very unsure. “Cilla had changed so much Johnny felt confused.” (Page

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Johnny also gets help from characters in the story and becomes more prosperous, during the events that take place in chapters five, six, and seven. One event that changed Johnny a lot through his troubled times in these chapters is when the Johnny couldn’t stay with the Laphams anymore. They lost faith in him because they didn’t want anybody with a crippled hand as the silversmith apprentice. This event caused Johnny to know that life isn’t always easy and that it will be even harder than it was before to become aware of who he was. There are also people who helped him through his worrisome times.

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The largest and most important decision of Johnny’s life, which ultimately brought him to his death, was to go into the burning church to save the lives of children that were trapped inside and would have died. He did not know the children, but knew he had to save their lives. He later wrote in his letter to Ponyboy, “Listen, I don’t mind dying now. It’s worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more than mine, they have more to live for,” (pg. 152).

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