Ponyboy is a fourteen year old boy who lives with his older brothers, Darry and Sodapop. Ever since his parents got into an automobile crash and were killed, Ponyboy and his brothers live on their own. Johnny is a sixteen year old who comes from a tough home, with an abusive father. Johnny is being accused of
Also, Johnny is like "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" because she had started off life in his concrete stage or his adversity stage with his family, broken free of that when he had saved the kids from the church, and then grown to his rose stage, when he was in the hospital, about to die, talking to Ponyboy when he had matured and developed into an adult.
S. E. Hinton 's novel The Outsiders, Hilton includes two characters that only care for eachother. They have many similarities, they both have abusive parents and they both place little value on their lives. However they have many differences. Dally gets in trouble a lot with the fuzz, johnny on the other hand is shy, always looks like something is bothering him. Johnny ends up dying but he dies a hero, Dally dies a hoodlum, he attempts to pull a unloaded gun on the fuzz but dies as soon as he does it.
How a character acts and what their personality is can describe their character trait. Sometimes characters are different in their traits, oftenly characters can be the same by changing or revising their own character trait. The protagonist is Doug from Okay for Now, by Gary Schmidt. Doug is a teenage boy that is struggling with a rough family. Doug 's father got a new job that was far away from his own town so, Doug has to adapt to the town that he moved to.
Also some of the members in the gang have been jumped by Socs, who are rich well treated people. In the beginning of the book the author wrote about Johnny getting jumped and beat up almost to death. Johnny and Ponyboy go to the movies with two Socs. Johnny and Ponyboy stay late at night in the empty parking lot. They fell asleep and got home later than
" Valence claimed to have sent the boys home angrily. “Marcia and I were enjoying our night when a friend of Ponyboy’s began chatting us up in a very rude manner. Ponyboy and Johnny stuck up for us. They were very chivalrous,
Vinny and joe-boy are different but they are also similar. Vinny was scared for most of the story. Joe-boy is disrespectful to Vinny. Even though Joe-boy and Vinny have many differences, they still call each other best friends. Although joe-boy was controlling at the beginning, Vinny finds that standing up to his
The next thing he knew, he was lying on the pavement beside the fountain. Ponyboy was attacked by Bob and his friends, and needed help, that was stated on pages fifty-five and fifty-six. Johnny was jumped once before by Bob and his friends, and almost died. He did not want Ponyboy to be hurt or killed. Johnny felt threatened and knew if he did not help, Ponyboy would have died.
At the beginning of the story, Ponyboy comes home after curfew, making Ponyboy’s brother “Darry” pretty mad, causing them to start fighting and out of mixed emotion, Darry slaps Ponyboy. Next, Ponyboy and another Greaser, “Johnny,” are by a fountain when a couple of Socs attack, and start to drown Ponyboy. Johnny, after being beaten to near death by Socs on an earlier date, kills a Soc named “Bob” with a switchblade, scaring off the other Socs. In the end, Ponyboy is asked to write a composition based on a theme for school and ends up telling his own story (Hinton). Within the novel, the Socs get all the breaks and the Greasers get
In the short story the Ravine you will read about Joe-boy and Vinny's differences Vinny has a lot of differences here are some he is single He doesn't want to be at the Ravine because a boy just died there 2 weeks ago he tried to impress his friends by going to the Ravine . Vinny was really scared . Vinny didn’t jump in the pond rate away because he was thinking about the dead boy's body because he doesn't know if the body is down in the water and he would be jumping off a 50 foot ledge. Joe-boy and Starlene seid the stone goddess took the dead boy. Joe-boy doesn't have a lot of differences like vinny but here are a couple of examples.
It’s just that we used to have two boys and now there’s only one” finally showing us that they are a couple. This delayed showing of simple pieces of plot keep the audience on their toes, making sure they
For these reasons, Joe’s perseverance show he is a gritty, mentally strong, and independent person. Joe’s abandonment and his ability to fight through it convey the idea that his life experiences have helped create grit. Furthermore, Joe’s actions prove that he has become a mentally tougher person. He uses his abandonment as motivation to become independent and to prove to Harry that he can survive and succeed. Later on in the book, Joe develops a good relationship with Washington’s boatbuilder, George Pocock, who gives him advice on rowing.
In the story the main character Vinny and his best friend Joe-Boy are two very different personalities with different character traits described by the author of “The Ravine”. Both of the boys are from the same place, are the same age, and have almost the same friends in the story. Both of these two boys, Joe-Boy and Vinny, are complete opposites but at the same place which is the setting of “The Ravine”. Now, if you look at the way Vinny reacts to most of the things that take place in the story, one thing you can notice right off the top is that Vinny is alert about his surroundings. If you pay close attention to when Joe-Boy said that Vinny could have possibly been stepping into a space where the dead bo could have said, because he jumped
Ponyboy lived with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop after his parents were killed in a car accident. Ponyboy had some friends in the gang: Steve, Two-Bit, Dally but his best friend was a boy named Johnny who was considered the gang`s mascot. Ponyboy was a boy who always wanted to be tough but an accident that happened in the story might make him change of mind on what he wanted to be. He also finds a way of how to finish the gang that was taking place from many tima.
After that, Ponyboy finds himself in a situation that he personally can’t back out of. It’s the fire at the church. Ponyboy, starts running in to help save the children, but when he turns around, he sees Johnny. “Hey Ponyboy,” Johnny says. Johnny was following Ponyboy into the fire to help save the kids.
