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Johnny Cade Quotes And Page Numbers
“How come y’all ain’t scared of us like you were Dally?”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade), Chapter 2, Page 26
“Well I won’t. But I gotta do something. It seems like there’s gotta be someplace without greasers or Socs, with just people. Plain, ordinary people.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade), Chapter 3, Page 48
“Easy, Ponyboy,” he said softly, “we’ll be okay.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade), Chapter 3, Page 51
“I think I like it better when the old man’s hittin’ me.” Johnny sighed. “At least then I know he knows who I am.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade), Chapter 3, Page 51
“I killed him,” he said slowly. “I killed that boy.” Bob, the handsome Soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still. A dark pool was growing from him, spreading slowly over the blue-white cement. I looked at Johnny’s hand. He was clutching his switchblade, and it was dark to the hilt. My stomach gave a violent jump and my blood turned icy.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade and Ponyboy as narrator), Chapter 4, Page 56
“I never noticed colors and and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them. It seems like they were never there before.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, about friends (Character: Johnny Cade), Chapter 5, Page 78
“Would you rather have me living in hide-outs for the rest of my life, always on the run?” Johnny asked seriously.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, about friends (Character: Johnny Cade), Chapter 6, Page 90
“Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. “Tuff enough,” he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade and Ponyboy as narrator), Chapter 8, Page 120
“I don’t want to die now. It ain’t long enough. Sixteen years ain’t long enough. I wouldn’t mind it so much if there wasn’t so much stuff I ain’t done yet and so many things I ain’t seen. It’s not fair.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade), Chapter 8, Page 121
“I said I don’t want to see her…tell her to leave me alone. For once.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade), Chapter 8, Page 122
“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade), Chapter 9, Page 148
“I’ve been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you’re gold when you’re a kid, like green. When you’re a kid everything’s new, dawn. It’s just when you get used to everything that it’s day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold. Keep that way, it’s a good way to be.”
~Susan E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade’s note to Ponyboy) Chapter 12, Page 178
“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he knows.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, (Character: Johnny Cade’s note to Ponyboy), Chapter 12, Page 179
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“Johnny Cade was last and least. If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you’ll have Johnny. He was the youngest, next to me, smaller than the rest, with a slight build. He had big black eyes in a dark tanned face; his hair was jet-black and heavily greased and combed to the side, but it was so long that it fell in shaggy bangs across his forehead. He had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes, and that beating he got from the Socs didn’t help matters. He was the gang’s pet, everyone’s kid brother. His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house. I think he hated that worse than getting whipped. He would have run away a million times if we hadn’t been there. If it hadn’t been for the gang, Johnny would never have known what love and affection are.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, about Johnny (Character: Ponyboy as the narrator), Chapter 1, Pages 11, 12
“I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that’ll really listen to you, listen and care about what you’re saying, is something rare.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, about Johnny, friendship (Character: Ponyboy as the narrator), Chapter 12, Page 178
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Johnny Cade Description
Johnny Cade is a 16-year-old greaser with big black eyes and tanned skin. He is a very quiet person who is constantly neglected and abused. He can hold his own in a rumble but distances himself from it as much as possible.
He was nearly killed by a group of Socs one night. Johnny kills Bob to save Ponyboy and rescues children from a burning church. In the hospital, he mentions that rumbles are pointless. He lives like a hoodlum but dies like a hero.
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Johnny Cade’s Appearance In The Outsiders
Johnny Cade is smaller than the rest of the greasers, with a slight build and big black eyes in a dark-tanned face. His hair is jet-black, heavily greased, and combed to the side, but it is so long that it falls in shaggy bangs across his forehead.
He wears a dark t-shirt with a sky-blue denim jacket and jeans and always has a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes. The scar on his left cheek from when he was jumped and beaten severely by a group of Socs serves as a reminder of his struggles.
Johnny looks like a lost puppy, and Ponyboy often thinks of him as someone who has been kicked too many times.