When Was Johnny Cade Born

The second youngest of the greasers. Johnny is 16, a close friend to Ponyboy, and honey by the entire gang. He comes from an abusive and neglectful domicile, and he spends as fiddling time there as possible. The greasers are his true family, and they regard him as a niggling brother. Johnny's courageous acts and words, also as his premature decease, inspire Ponyboy to write about his experiences and to pursue a better path in his life.

Johnny Cade Quotes in The Outsiders

The The Outsiders quotes below are all either spoken by Johnny Cade or refer to Johnny Cade. For each quote, you can also run into the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its ain dot and icon, similar this one:

Johnny never walked by himself later that. And Johnny...now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade. He'd use it, as well, if he always got jumped once again.

Page Number and Commendation: 34

Explanation and Analysis:

Nature's first light-green is gold,
Her hardest hue to agree.
Her early on leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then foliage subsides to foliage.
So Eden sank to grief,
And so dawn goes downwards to day.
Naught gold tin stay.

Page Number and Citation: 77

Explanation and Analysis:

"Johnny," Dally said in a pleading, high vocalism, using a tone I had never heard from him earlier, "Johnny, I ain't mad at yous. I just don't want you to get hurt. You lot don't know what a few months in jail can do to you. Oh, blast it, Johnny...yous get hardened in jail. I don't desire that to happen to you. Like it happened to me..."

Page Number and Citation: 89

Explanation and Assay:

I stared at the newspaper. On the front folio of the second section was the headline: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS Plough HEROES.
"What I similar is the 'turn' chip," Two-Scrap said. ... "You were heroes from the outset. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden."

Page Number and Citation: 107

Explanation and Analysis:

"Nosotros won," Dally panted. "We beat out the Socs. Nosotros stomped them—chased them outa our territory."
Johnny didn't fifty-fifty try to grin at him. "Useless...fighting's no good..."

Page Number and Citation: 148

Explanation and Analysis:

"Stay gilded, Ponyboy. Stay golden..." The pillow seemed to sink a petty, and Johnny died.

Page Number and Commendation: 149

Explanation and Analysis:

And fifty-fifty every bit the policemen's guns spit fire into the night I knew that was what Dally wanted...Dally Winston wanted to exist dead and he always got what he wanted...Two friends of mine had died that night: i a hero, the other a hoodlum. But I remembered Dally pulling Johnny through the window of the burning church building; Coquet giving us his gun, although it could hateful jail for him; Dally risking his life for usa, trying to keep Johnny out of trouble. And at present he was a dead juvenile delinquent and there wouldn't be whatever editorials in his favor. Coquet didn't die a hero. He died tearing and young and desperate, but like we all knew he'd die someday...Only Johnny was correct. He died gallant.

Page Number and Citation: 154

Explanation and Analysis:

I've been thinking about it, and that verse form, that guy that wrote information technology, he meant you're gilt when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It'due south just when yous become used to everything that it'southward twenty-four hour period. Like the manner you dig sunsets, Pony. That'south gold. Go along that way, it's a practiced style to be...And don't be so bewitched over beingness a greaser. You still have a lot of time to brand yourself what you want. In that location's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't recollect he knows. Your buddy, Johnny.

Folio Number and Citation: 178-179

Explanation and Analysis:

One week had taken all three of them. And I decided I could tell people, start with my English teacher. I wondered for a long time how to start that theme, how to start writing well-nigh something that was of import to me. And I finally began similar this: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had simply two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride abode...

Folio Number and Citation: 180

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Johnny Cade Character Timeline in The Outsiders

The timeline below shows where the character Johnny Cade appears in The Outsiders. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...Corvair following him. He suspects it's a group of Socs, and thinks of his friend Johnny, who was recently badly beaten past the Socs. The automobile pulls upwards next to Ponyboy.... (full context)

...Dallas Winston radiates danger and toughness, and was kickoff arrested at the age of ten. Johnny Cade is younger than the others, has a violent dwelling life, and is treated with... (full context)

Dally invites everyone to the double characteristic at the drive-in the next nighttime. Ponyboy and Johnny concur to go. Dally reveals that he has broken up with his girlfriend, and Ponyboy... (total context)

The adjacent dark, Johnny and Ponyboy come across Dally and head to the drive-in. On the manner, they make a... (full context)

When Johnny returns, Crimson smiles at him. But when Dally soon returns and offers Cherry a Coke,... (total context)

The Soc girls continue talking with Ponyboy and Johnny. Johnny eventually asks Ruby why she isn't afraid of them the way she is of... (full context)

Of a sudden, Ii-Bit comes upwards backside the boys and shouts, "Okay, greasers, you've had it." Johnny and Ponyboy jump, thinking that they're existence confronted by a Soc. Johnny is specially shaken.... (full context)

Ponyboy tells Cherry that the Socs attacked Johnny four months earlier: the greasers establish Johnny lying motionless in the park. The severity of... (total context)

...shocks Blood-red. She assures Ponyboy that all Socs are not like the ones who jumped Johnny. Ponyboy is hundred-to-one. Ruddy persists by reasoning, for instance, that not all greasers are not... (full context)

...then, Marcia notices a blue Mustang coming downward the street, and everyone becomes nervous, specially Johnny. The automobile passes slowly and keeps going. (full context)

...them is Crimson's fellow, Bob, who pleads with the girls to forgive them for drinking. Johnny seems spooked, and Ponyboy realizes that Bob was the one who attacked Johnny. Insults fly... (full context)

After the Mustang drives off, Two-Bit leaves Johnny and Ponyboy in the vacant lot where the greasers hang out. As they fume and... (full context)

Ponyboy returns to the greaser lot, where he finds Johnny, tells him what happened, and adds that he has decided to run away. Johnny agrees... (full context)

The park is deserted. As Johnny and Ponyboy walk and talk, the blueish Mustang suddenly appears. Bob, his friend Randy, and... (total context)

...When he comes to, the Socs are gone and he'south on the pavement next to Johnny and Bob's dead torso. Johnny says, "I killed him." Johnny's switchblade is covered in blood. (full context)

Ponyboy panics, merely Johnny is calm. He decides that they should go to Dally for aid. They discover Dally... (full context)

Hidden in a boxcar on a railroad train they've hopped to Windrixville, Johnny looks at Coquet's gun and wonders why Dally gave it to him, saying he could... (total context)

At the Windrixville station, Ponyboy realizes how his and Johnny's advent make them look similar hoods. He misses abode, and thinks about how his dream... (full context)

...Saturday morning with his brothers. When he becomes fully warning, he sees a note from Johnny, who'due south gone out for supplies. (full context)

Later on, Ponyboy and Johnny talk nearly killing Bob, and both of them cry out of fear and shock as... (full context)

...The boys entertain themselves by playing poker and reading aloud from Gone with the Wind. Johnny admires the Southern gentlemen in the novel and says that they remind him of Dally.... (total context)

As Johnny and Ponyboy devour a big meal at the Dairy Queen, Coquet explains that Cherry felt... (full context)

Johnny announces that he thinks he and Ponyboy should plow themselves in to the law. Dally... (total context)

...the church building. Suspecting that their discarded cigarette butts may have started the fire, Ponyboy and Johnny dash into the called-for building. They find the children and lift them i-by-1 out a... (full context)

...Ponyboy out while smothering a fire that had caught on Ponyboy's back. Dally then saved Johnny. He adds that Dally is burned but volition exist fine, while Johnny is in very... (total context)

...from the infirmary. He sits in the waiting room with Jerry, worrying almost Dally and Johnny, and finds himself telling Jerry the story of Bob's murder. Jerry agrees that Johnny acted... (full context)

Ponyboy, Darry, and Sodapop wait in the hospital waiting room for news about Johnny and Coquet. Reporters and police force question and take photos of Ponyboy and his brothers. Sodapop... (total context)

...headline "Juvenile Delinquents Turn Heroes." Two-Bit objects to the verb "plow," asserting that Ponyboy and Johnny were heroes all along. The article credits the boys with saving the children'south lives. The... (total context)

Two-Scrap and Ponyboy become to the hospital. Showtime, they visit Johnny, who is very weak. Johnny asks for a re-create of Gone with the Current of air, and... (full context)

...but is unhappy that he'll have to miss the rumble that night. He asks nigh Johnny's condition, and is visibly upset when 2-Bit reluctantly tells him the truth. Dally asks for... (total context)

...grabs Ponyboy and insists that they rush to the hospital to tell the news to Johnny, whose condition is now critical. Dally drives Cadet Merril's auto so fast that a policeman... (full context)

Equally he drives, Coquet says that if Ponyboy and Johnny just got tough like him, nothing could injure them anymore. They would not have rushed... (full context)

At the infirmary, the boys run to Johnny'south room. A md tells them that Johnny is dying, and Dally threatens him with Two-Fleck's... (full context)

Coquet excitedly tells Johnny the news about the rumble, only Johnny replies, "Useless fighting's no adept." Dally then tells... (full context)

Ponyboy too learns that Johnny left him his re-create of Gone with the Wind, just the volume and its Southern... (total context)

...let down his father by his interest with Bob in the attack on Ponyboy and Johnny, and he tells Ponyboy that he plans to tell the truth at the hearing the... (full context)

...doesn't question him near anything other than his domicile life. Randy and Cherry prove that Johnny killed Bob in cocky-defense force. The approximate acquits Ponyboy and sends him domicile with his brothers. (full context)

Back at home, Ponyboy picks up Johnny'south copy of Gone with the Air current while trying to write his essay. A letter from... (full context)