How Did Ponyboy Feel About Johnny’S Death?

After Johnny’s death and Dally’s departure, Ponyboy wanders through the hospital’s halls in a daze. Pony is in denial about Johnny’s death, and keeps repeating that he isn’t dead. He leaves the hospital and roams the streets until a stranger picks him up and drives him home.

Why does Ponyboy not accept Johnny’s death?

Ponyboy can’t accept Johnny’s death because he was too young. Also because he was still in shock. Ponyboy and Johnny were really close. Johnny was like the leader of the Greasers.

What chapter does Ponyboy accept Johnny’s death?

Chapter 10
Summary: Chapter 10
The man asks Ponyboy if he is okay and tells him that his head is bleeding. Ponyboy feels vaguely disoriented. At home, he finds the greasers gathered in the living room and tells them that Johnny is dead and that Dally has broken down.

How does Ponyboy deal with the deaths of his friends?

In order to deal with the pain of losing him, Ponyboy pretends that he killed Bob and that Johnny isn’t really dead. He tells others this, and his brothers blame it on his injuries from their last rumble.

What are Johnny’s dying words to Ponyboy?

Johnny is dying and is not impressed that the greasers won the rumble: “Useless . . . fighting’s no good.” He asks to speak to Ponyboy, and, leaning over him, Johnny’s last words are “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.”

What does Johnny say to pony just before he dies?

Right before he dies in the hospital, Johnny says “Stay gold, Ponyboy.” Ponyboy cannot figure out what Johnny means until he reads the note Johnny left. Johnny writes that “stay gold” is a reference to the Robert Frost poem Ponyboy shared when they were hiding at the church.

Who is delusional about Johnny’s death?

Ponyboy
Who is delusional about Johnny’s death? Ponyboy. 12.

When Johnny dies his last words to Ponyboy were for him to stay gold?

As he lies dying in Chapter 9, Johnny Cade speaks these words to Ponyboy. “Stay gold” is a reference to the Robert Frost poem that Ponyboy recites to Johnny when the two hide out in the Windrixville Church. One line in the poem reads, “Nothing gold can stay,” meaning that all good things must come to an end.

Who saved Ponyboy in the fire?

Dally
Ponyboy starts to go back in for Johnny, but Dally clubs him across the back and knocks him out. When Ponyboy wakes, he is in an ambulance, accompanied by one of the schoolteachers, Jerry Wood. The teacher tells him that his back caught on fire and that the jacket he was wearing, which Dally lent him, saved his life.

What does Ponyboy say after Johnny dies?

After Johnny’s death and Dally’s departure, Ponyboy wanders through the hospital’s halls in a daze. Pony is in denial about Johnny’s death, and keeps repeating that he isn’t dead. He leaves the hospital and roams the streets until a stranger picks him up and drives him home.

Who does Ponyboy love most?

4. Who does Ponyboy love the most out of anyone? Soda. 5.

Does Ponyboy get depressed?

Summary: Chapter 12
After the hearing, Ponyboy becomes detached and depressed. His grades suffer, he loses his coordination, memory, and appetite, and he resumes fighting with Darry.

What did Ponyboy say hurt Johnny’s feelings?

11. What does Ponyboy say to hurt Johnny’s feelings when they are walking home from the drive-in? That Johnny isn’t wanted at home. 12.

Why was Johnny’s dying so difficult?

2. Why was Johnny’s death so difficult for Dally to handle? Johnny’s death was hard for Dally to handle because he was the one person Dally cared about.

What were Dally’s last words?

his last words were “pony”.

Why do Johnny and Ponyboy Dye cut their hair?

In an effort to blend in and disguise their appearances, Johnny cuts and bleaches Ponyboy’s hair; Ponyboy in turn cuts Johnny’s hair. Following Dally’s orders, they stay inside the church and pass the time playing poker and reading aloud from Gone with the Wind.

Why does pony walk home after Johnny dies?

Why does Ponyboy have to walk home after Johnny dies? Dally had taken the car.

What do Johnny’s last words Stay Gold Ponyboy mean?

“Don’t let anyone change you. You’re perfect as you are.” Basically Johnny is saying to Ponyboy to stay true to himself. Stay the way he is and not change.

What does Ponyboy realize at the end of the book?

Ponyboy realizes that he cannot become wholly naïve or wholly tough. He cannot stop being a greaser in order to retain his innocence or sacrifice his ideals in order to become a toughened gangster.

Does The Outsiders have a happy ending?

Ponyboy tells a tragic tale—a tale of violence, of poverty, and of young men dying in the streets. But, luckily, The Outsiders manages to end on a happy note, with most of Ponyboy’s major problems resolved.

What foreshadowed Johnny’s death?

He would rather die defending himself with a switchblade than receive another beating by the Socs. Not only does this moment hint at Johnny using his switchblade later in the book, but it also alludes to Johnny’s own death in the final sentence. The fire in the Windrixville church is foreshadowed twice in the book.