Character Analysis Essay

The character I chose from the book The Outsiders, is Johnny Cade because he was a significant character in the book. I learned that he was the most significant character in the book because he was only 16, the smallest in the gang and he delt with hard things in life more than the other characters in the book/movie. He always slept ioutside somewhere such as the parking lot because his parents didn't even care about him. They beat him up and they don't even notice when Johnny leaves the house. He is a "lost puppy that has been kicked too many times" like the book said because his parents don't care about him, and he has been jumped by the Socs. When he is a shy kid, doesn't talk back to people when they talk bout him because he actually never liked fights. He said that fights aren't worth it.

Johnny changed throughout the book by changing his thoughts on dying and appreciating life more because at the beginning of the book, he was a shy quiet kid with lots of things going on in his life that he didn't care whether he died or not. But at the end, when he saved the kids from being burned, he said 16 wasn't enough and don't want to die but also said it was worth saving the kids. It was actually worth it because he died doing something everybody thought he couldn't do.

What I liked most about Johnny was that he saved Ponyboy from getting killed. Ponyboy could've been the one that would die from drowning instead of Bob, the Soc but Johnny killed Bob and saved Ponyboy. I also liked that he saved the kids in the church from getting killed. He went from a lost puppy that has been kicked too many times to a hero and a brave man. What I disliked about Johnny was that he had a rough life, at died at the end. He never got the love and affection from his parents and nobody else except from the gang. What I also dislike about Johnny was that he saved Ponyboy from getting killed from drowning and even saving the kids from getting burned and killed but was the one that died.

The song that would represent Johnny would be "If Everyone Cared" by Nickelback because if everyone cared like Johnny's parents, he wouldn't of killed the Soc and wouldn't die. If his parents cared and gave love and advice from the real world and what terrible things can happen in life, nothing would of been happening to him. He wouldn't of kill that Soc or died. He would be a normal kid with lots ahead in his life. But nobody cared but the gang but everybody needs their parents more than anything. In the song it also said if everyone cared, loved, and if everyone shared and swallowed their own pride just like the Greasers and Socs, there would be no violence and fighting. Everyone would be happy and love each other.