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Johnny Cade In The Outsiders
In the novel Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton, the genre is young adult fiction. The character Johnny Cade makes choices that change him as a character sentimentally. There are three significant choices that change him as a character: First, He kills Bob Sheldon Second, he runs away with Ponyboy and Third saves the kids from the burning church with Ponyboy.

Johnny kills Bob Sheldon (Cherry’s boyfriend) because he was drowning Ponyboy and Pony passed out, Johnny acted in self defense, he didn’t kill Bob on purpose. The effect on Johnny is that he feels guilty about killing Bob and becomes traumatized by doing this to Bob. Johnny said this “ I killed him, I killed that boy.”

Johnny runs away with ponyboy after killing Bob. The impact on Johnny

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