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Ponyboy And Johnny Chapter 1 Summary

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One week ago, two boys left their homes and ran to the old church at Jay Mountain. The boys returned home after a week in critical condition because of a large fire in the church. They saved three young children from the fire and left in an ambulance. One of the boys died yesterday and the other is fully recovered, still resting at home. These two heros live in the west side of town and go by the names of Johnny and Ponyboy. Johnny is neighbors with Ponyboy and has a poor life at home. His parents haven’t ever cared for him and he might be sent to a boys’ home. Many nights, his friends say he sleeps outside or in one of their homes. Johnny is currently 16 and just died of severe burns and a broken back yesterday afternoon. Ponyboy lives with his two brothers, Soda and Darry, on the west side of town. Ponyboy’s parents passed away several years ago. Ponyboy and his brothers have a great group of friends. One friend said, “We always got each other’s backs. It’s important that everyone’s doin’ fine and that no one will get caught by them police.” …show more content…

Before Johnny died, he killed an 18 year old boy attempting to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. The boys left late at night and went to the abandoned church at Jay Mountain to stay there for what ended up being a week. “I was scared stiff about Pony,” Darry told Hannah News, “I had no way of knowing if he’d come back or not.” The boys left the church to get some food and came back to three children in the church which was blazing with flames. Courageously, both of the boys jumped into the burning church rescuing all three children. The children were unharmed, but not Ponyboy and Johnny. Both boys were quickly escorted to the hospital. Johnny lost his sense of feeling below his waist, broke his back, and had severe third degree burns in several places on his body. Ponyboy has recovered and Johnny passed away

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The fire was fierce and were guided by the little kids screaming and coughing for help. When Ponyboy and Johnny found the kids they immediatley, one by one picked up the kids and threw them out of a opening in a window. A few minutes later Dally had joined them throwing Ponyboy first, then Johnny and just in time before the entire church had collapsed on them. Shortly after the ambulances came and took the three greasers quickly to the hospital. Ponyboy was the first to wake up, Dally had clubbed him very hard because his whole back was on

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Jay Mountain, Oklahoma, 1965 A local church on the top of Jay Mountain was set to flames by what appears to be a cigarette. Many children were trapped inside the burning church. Two boys by the names of Ponyboy and Johnny rushed into the fire and saved all of the kids. The investigation continues, but evidence has been uncovered that the boys are Greasers and were near the church because they were running away from possible charges of manslaughter.

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The church that Johnny and Ponyboy stayed in burnt down. Thus, Johnny died. Although they share a great deal of similarities the movie and novel are very different.

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They run away to an abandoned church which burns down and Johnny is hurt when saving the kids inside. When Johnny is taken to the hospital, Pony reunites with his brothers, the greasers and the Socs have a huge rumble, he gets to know Randy, and Johnny and Dally die. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy’s views and

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While Ponyboy and Johnny were in the church, Ponyboy told Johnny about a poem he knew. The poem told about how great life can be in the beginning, and how in can crash in a blink. In Johnny’s letter, he told Ponyboy that bad times will come, so he shouldn’t stress over him dying. He told him it was worth it, when he saved all those kids.

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In page 56 it states “ I’m drowning, I thought, they’ve gone too far …” and “ I killed him,” he said slowly. “I killed that boy.” This shows where Johnny saved Ponyboy from drowning. Johnny is also a hero when he helped get the little kids get out of the church that was on fire. In the text it states “ He looked over his shoulder and saw that the door was blocked by the flames, then pushed open the window and tossed out the nearest kid.”

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Pony jumped into a church that was on fire with Johnny on his tail. They went to where the kids were in the church and got the kids out. The price for doing that was Johnny getting severely injured. Pon and Johnny could’ve died by that fire by being trapped by it or being burnt alive.

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Even though he killed some one he was still saving Pony. Pony thinks “Next thing I knew I woke up on the pavement beside the fountain”(p.56) after he almost drown. Johnny saved Pony from being drowned. He helped Pony get the kids out of the burning church. This quote from the book states Johnny saved kids from dying in a burning church“the door was blocked by flames, pushed open the window and tossed out the nearest kid.

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Johnny comes from a troubled background, and his innocence has long been compromised by abuse and neglect. However, it is through the tragic events that Johnny experiences alongside Ponyboy that his loss of innocence becomes evident. After being forced to take a life in self-defense, Johnny confesses, "I killed him... I killed that boy" (Hinton, 56). This moment marks a turning point in Johnny's character arc, as he grapples with guilt and the irreversible consequences of his actions.

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