Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Mimi Abbott's first prompt
What options other than running away seem actually possible for Ponyboy and Johnny after they kill Bob? Hinton makes us think that running away isn't such a good idea, and in real life we are taught to stand up and take the consequences for whatever when we do wrong. Do Ponyboy and Johnny actually have choices?
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I think that Ponyboy and Johhny have two choices: 1.Run away and stay in hiding for the rest of their lives (or at least until the accident is forgotten) 2.Turn themselves in and face the consequences. Although Hinton made it sound like Ponyboy and Johnny were doing the worng thing, he made them run away anyways, which I believe was the best idea becasue it turned the book in a whole other way. I don't think that the book would be as good if Johnny and Ponyboy went, from the start, to turn themselves in. Then,the book would really have no point, and no rising action.
Ponyboy and Johnny didn't really have the choice to go and turn themselves in because they realized that the police wouldn't believe that the greaser was acting in self defense, they would all side with the Socs because they're made out to be good people. So, they really didn't have a choice other than to runaway. Their decision to runway get them some advantages and disadvantages, some of them were Johnny getting killed and saving the children's lives. Johnny's getting killed was supposed to tell the reader that running away is a bad things and that was a definite disadvantage. An advantage was when Johnny and Ponyboy saved the children's lives that were in the burning church. That situation could've possibly been the thing that helped their trail go so smoothly, and help the judge really see that they were good kids no matter what they're labeled as.
They really only had two choices, these were to run away or turn themselves in. If they hadn’t run away it would have changed the book but not necessarily made it a worse book. It could have even made it better because the change of setting was confusing. It would still have suspense as well because the suspense would be in the outcome of the trial and the relationship between Greasers and Socs. It would have been just as good of a book if they had turned in.
Johnny and Ponyboy did have only two choices. To either run away, and be a chicken, or face the consequences, and deal with the police. Ponyboy and Johnny knew that if they didn’t run away, they would put Johnny in an electric chair or something bad like that, and Ponyboy would be sent to a boys’ home, but they also knew that if they did run away it would be just as hard.
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