Who Is Johnny In The Outsiders

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A Lost Puppy Johnny Cade is from The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton is wrote The Outsiders. Johnny is the character for this essay because he is fragile, jumpy, and scared. Here is why he is fragile, jumpy and scared. Johnny is fragile. The book also says that he is the smallest. Ponyboy says in the book “Johnny is the youngest next to me”. Johnny is a lot more fragile than everyone else. He is really jumpy. He got beat up by the socs. As a result from that he know jumps a t his own shadow. Ponyboy states in the book “After the night he got beat up he was jumpier than ever. Johnny has always been a little bit jumpy because his dad is abusive. He got a lot jumpier after the socs beat him up. He is scared. He is as scared as he is because his dad

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