Johnny was always a good person, even though he always had a rough life. He was a great friend to Ponyboy and to everybody else in the gang. The reason he seems scared at times is because a bunch of Socs nearly killed him and ditched the body in the lot. Ever since that happened, he has always been jumpy and scared of everything. After he got jumped he always carried a switch blade too, leading to the death of Bob. Then Johnny ran away because he didn’t have a good home to go back to because his parents were abusive. His dad would beat him and his mom didn’t care about him. In the book he even said, “Sometimes I like it better when the old man is hitting me, because then he knows I’m there.” That shows that Johnny doesn’t like his home, and that’s why he sometimes sleeps in the lot.
Johnny proved that he was a good person multiple times. One of them was how he had Ponyboy's back when they got jumped, but the biggest one was when Johnny ran with Ponyboy to save those kids inside the church when it was burning down. All the way he had his back and because of that Johnny got crushed by that beam of wood that crippled him and marked him for dead.
There isn't really anyone who I can compare with Johnny that comes to mind, because it's hard to find good friends like that. It's really rare to find someone who would take the risk of dieing for his friend and some random little kids that he doesn't even know. Johnny was a good friend and a great person and always had his friends backs, even with his rough life.
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