First and foremost, Johnny looks up to Dally Winston. Dally Winston is a character from the novel the Outsiders. Dally Winston is a part of the gang the Greasers. Dally Winston doesn't have parents that care for him. Dally has to take care of himself. Dally is proving that he doesn't need his parents. Johnny …show more content…
He stabbed and killed a Soc named Bob. Bob is a character in the novel the Outsiders and he is in a different gang called The Socials but known as the Socs. The Socs and the Gresasers do not get along. This event took place during the night time. Johnny and PonyBoy were walking to the park. As they were walking to the park the Socs pulled up in a mustang and starts bothering both Johnny and PonyBoy. Than Bob grabbed PonyBoy and threw him into the fountain and started to drown him. Because Johnny was scared he panicked and stabbed Bob. However, because of Johnny's action it caused both him and PonyBoy to run away. They Both ran away to this church in Jay Mountain. After living there for about one week the church caught on fire. When the church caught on fire there was little kids inside of the church, So both Johnny and PonyBoy saved these children's lives and Johnny got hurt badly because of it. This event was all over the news and in the newspaper. This is how Johnny became known as a