At the beginning of the novel Johnny was innocent but loses this during the novel. Furthermore, following when Pony ran away from home both Pony and Johnny head to the park. They run into a group of socs that are angry about a previous situation and start to drown Pony. Johnny later takes his switchblade and kills Bob. It mentions in the text, “You really, killed him, huh, Johnny?” “Yeah” His voice quavered slightly. “I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade… They were going to beat me up…”(Hinton, Page#57) Consequently, Johnny was overwhelmed with guilt after killing Bob. He was terrified with what he had just done. This event changes his life in just a few minutes. Rather from doing the same …show more content…
In contrast, he wanted to die earlier in the novel but now does not want this. Moreover, he has to face the consequences of killing Bob like possibly jail. This makes him mature and causes a loss of innocence thinking life is very long lasting. In the course of time Johnny and Ponyboy flee to Jay Mountain. They hide inside an abandoned church. After a sequence of events, the church burns. This leaves Johnny and Ponyboy to go inside the church to save children. In turn, Johnny is in critical condition and in the hospital as Two-Bit says, “Did you know you got your name in the paper for being a hero?” Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. “Tuff enough,” he managed…I could see that even a few words were tiring him out; he was as as the pillow and looked awful” (Hinton, Page#120). In other words, Johnny is nearing death. Although his friends are saying he is being called a hero rather than a murder, he realizes he will not be living much longer. As he is very pale and is having trouble talking. His world changes once again to becoming increasingly harsh. He is now turning into Bob who got murder very young. Accordingly, he knows that his golden teenage years will not be