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Austin Johnson

Judgment of People

Author’s note: This essay is about how the author uses the theme of defying stereotypes.

Whenever you see someone in the hallway or in a store that you never met, you most likely characterize that person into a certain category. That is judging them on how they appear. One of the themes in the novel “The outsiders” is defying stereotypes, which is proving people wrong about what they think of you.

            Most of the time, the first glance (or stereotype) of a person, is usually wrong. For example Johnny, was a guy who defied his stereo type. He was a kid from the bad side of town who looked tough.  But in reality he was unliked by his family and would have never hurt anyone, this phrase describes him in how he looks to others and how he looks to his best friend Ponyboy Johnny had a blank tough look on his face-you’d have to know him to see the panic in his eyes. He was extremely nice to his real family the gang he was in called the greasers. In a way he is kind of like his best friend Ponyboy tough but smart and misunderstood 

            Ponyboy is not the kind of guy who you think would be a greaser. Ponyboy is misunderstood by many people he looks like every other kid in the greasers, tuff, and greasy hair and never alone.  But really he gets real good grades in school and is nice to most people he even saved kids from a fire. He befriended one of the people who stereotyped him and tried to beat him up. His parents died tragically in a car accident which is something rob never knew.  He defied his stereotype so much that he befriended a person from the opposite social party, unlike dally he was exactly what people thought of him.

            Dallas Winston otherwise known as Dally, he is very tuff went to Juvie and owns a gun. He is what the opposite party of the Greasers the socs form their stereotype of the greasers from. The only person he cares about is Johnny and when he gets taken away from him he does his own special form of suicide. He makes the people he hates the most the police shoot him up in front of all his friends.

             When people stereotype you, you would always like to prove them wrong like the theme defying stereotypes.  Both Ponyboy and Johnny are great examples of defying stereotypes.  The novel the outsiders most of the main characters defy their stereotypes.   



a new family

Austin Johnson

The Other Type of Family

About why Johnny liked the greasers better than his own family

The definition any group of persons closely related.   When most people think of family they think of blood relatives but a family can be a group of people you hang out with in the case of Johnny Cade from the novel “the Outsiders” his family was really the Greasers.

            Johnny’s family was so mean to him that he chose the Greasers as his family.  From we know his parents were abusive and don’t pay attention to him because of that Johnny never wanted to go to his house.  He would rather stay out in a lot than at his parents’ house. The story tells us that he would sometimes be at his friend Ponyboy’s house. He was with the Greasers a lot and liked them way better than his family.  The Greasers treated him so well they came to see him while he was dying and when his mother came to see him he told the nurse to keep her away. He was so angry he fainted trying to move and sit up. When he died it hurt the Greasers more than it hurt his mother.

            The greasers were Johnny’s real family not his blood family. The Greasers cared more about Johnny than his family ever did .

Johnny’s’ redemption

Austin Johnson

Johnny’s’ redemption

Going off of what I read I think: Johnny will go to the hospital in a coma and will wake up the police will forgive Johnny for his murder because he has saved the children’s lives and things will go back to normal.

                Bob was one of the main reasons of how the police will forgive him. Bob could be at the most 17 or 18 so he was an under aged drinker. Bob was also drunk at the time of his murder while trying to kill Ponyboy.  So Johnny used self defense while bob was doing something illegal so he cannot get arrested.  Also Bob’s friends were also drunk in a place that they couldn’t possibly be doing something good. It is just not the kind of characteristic of Johnny to be cold hearted killer

                Johnny is the kind of guy who looks tough but usually won’t hurt anyone.  Even though Johnny had a gun he would not have intended to use it.  He even forgot about it when the church was burning down. If anything Johnny is a hero for risking his life and saving those children trapped in the church. I think he got his own punishment when he got those burns.

                If they treat Johnny like they should then Johnny should not go to jail because it is not what it looks like Johnny is innocent.