Ponyboy Johnny Cade The Outsiders
Johnny cade the gang s pet he is 16 years old physically small and comes from a physically and verbally abusive home.
Ponyboy johnny cade the outsiders. According to pony sixteen year old johnny looks like a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers 1 49. He comes from an abusive home and he takes to the greasers because they are his only reliable family. Notably johnny asks no questions he simply follows ponyboy. He ran away with ponyboy and lived in an abandoned church for a week.
While johnny needs the greasers the greasers also need johnny for protecting him gives them a sense of purpose and justifies their violent measures. When his parents aren t physically and or verbally abusing him they re ignoring him. His hair was jet black and heavily greased and combed to the side but it was so long that it. Johnny cade was a greaser one of the three deuteragonists of the outsiders and its film adaptation.
He has light brown almost red hair and greenish gray eyes and wears his hair longer than a lot of boys wear theirs squared off in the back and long at the front and sides. We all know the classic outsiders story but what if there was another character that could change everything. Johnny was smaller than the rest with a slight build. Johnny cade is a vulnerable sixteen year old greaser in a group defined by toughness and a sense of invincibility.
Ponyboy is the youngest of the greaser gang. Steve randle soda s best friend and fellow greaser. Thomas howell in the film. In this moment johnny shows a tender sensitive and emotional side as well as the depth of friendship and loyalty he gives to and shares with ponyboy.
Johnny had been severely beaten by a group of socs before this story begins. Ponyboy the narrator of i the outsiders ponyboy is fourteen years old and a greaser. Summer cade is the only member in the gang who s a girl she s johnny s older twin sister and may have a crush on a certain member of the gang. After eating with dally and ponyboy they go back to the church which is on fire johnny and ponyboy go in to save the kids inside.
In the novel ponyboy has light brown hair and greenish gray eyes. Ponyboy michael curtis is the narrator and protagonist of the 1967 novel the outsiders and its 1983 film adaptation. Johnny is the pet of the gang. Johnny is scared of the world because he got jumped by the socs twice and once he killed one.
Johnny sits beside ponyboy and pats him gently as ponyboy weeps. At the beginning of the novel ponyboy s hair is long and dark. He has a good build for his size and is a fast runner. He had big black eyes in a dark tanned face.