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The Outsiders By S. E Hinton: Was Johnny A Hero

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Imagine you were in these situations? What would you do in these situations? Your friend is drowning by a person that has beaten you and you have the choice to kill them or run. There is a burning church there is 5 kids in there what would you do. Would risk your life for your friends and kids that you don’t know. In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, a character did all these things and that’s why he’s a hero. Johnny is the character in the book that is a hero because he saved pony boy from Bob, he saved the kids from the burning church, and he risked his life for us friends and some random kids.

Johnny is a hero because he saved Ponyboy from Bob. It was heroic because Johnny knew he could get in a lot of trouble for killing Bob to save Ponyboy. He knew that he might of gone to jail or get the death penalty. (Chapter 4) Johnny was very scared of Bob because Bob had beaten him; he almost died. Johnny new he might of go beat up if he interfered to save Ponyboy. (Chapter 4) Ponyboy would have drowned to death if Johnny didn’t kill Bob that makes him a hero. …show more content…

This is a heroic act because he could have gotten seriously injured and to never be the same. Johnny was willing to die saving the kids even though he didn’t want to die. He didn’t know the kids; at all he just rushed in there to save them. The kids would have died. That would be bad because the police would show up and Johnny and Ponyboy would have gotten in trouble. That is one heroic act. (Chapter

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