https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i en-us 2023-03-13 18:19:49 UTC 2025-12-24 21:22:16 UTC hello@padlet.com evateixeira1 https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2516498111 "Dally is tougher than I am. Why can I take it when Dally can't? And then I knew. Johnny was the only thing Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone."

Dally has lost every other thing in his life other then Johnny before this moment. Johnny was all he had left to care about. Johnny was only think keeping Dally from ending up dead or in jail for life. Johnny was the only thing in Dallys path from breaking. Dally had to protect Johnny and keep the world perfect for him and Dally had to be better for him, but Johnny is gone. Now Dally only had him self. Dally did not care about him at all. Dally feels like a failure. He feels like his life is now worth living. He thinks that if Johnny died (this perfect kid with his whole life ahead of him, this innocent child, the kid he needed to protect at any cost) then why should he deserve to live. ]]> 2023-03-14 17:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2516498111 https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2518071046 "Dally raised the gun, and i thought: You blasted fool. They don't know you're bluffing. And even as the policemen's guns spit fire into the night I knew that was what Dally wanted... He was dead before he hit the ground". 

Dally didn't want to kill himself with his own hands. He wanted someone else to kill him. Dally lost Johnny in the same day and couldn't live with the guilt that he could have saved him. They thought of each other as brothers. Dally also thought of Johnny as a younger version of himself, someone who he wanted to protect. He failed to do that now he has to live with knowing he could have done something. Dally didnt want to live with knowing that so he had a cop shoot him to end it.]]> 2023-03-15 16:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2518071046 paytonrepasky1 https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2518082968 On this page, Two-bit was worrying about the switchblade that he gave Johnny and it brought of memories of how Johnny was there for everyone. He was very good at listening and care about what the gang was saying because it was an escape from dealing with his own problems and challenges. Ponyboy states, "And I couldn't forget him telling me that he hadn't done enough, hadn't been out of our neighborhood all his life-- and then it was too late." When Pony was reading Johnny's letter, you could feel that Johnny did fufill himself when he helped save those kids and he says that the kids lives were worth risking his own because he was thanked and appreciated which he had never felt before from his own parents. Even though he knew his life was going to be over, he still manged to give advice to Ponyboy and Dally even if hes gone to keep going and that there is still good in the world and to not change for someone else. ]]> 2023-03-15 16:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2518082968 evateixeira1 https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2518091290 " '... We're all we've got left. We ought to be able to stick together against anything. If we don't have each other, we don't have anything. If you don't have anything, you end up like Dallas ... and I don't mean dead, either. I mean like he was before. And that's worse than dead..."

Soda knows that Darry and Ponyboy fighting will cause bad things to happen. He knows this because bad things have already happened. When they fought Darry hit Ponyboy and when Ponyboy ran away that is when Johnny killed Bob and that whole situation took place. Soda does not want that to happen again because what if Ponyboy died. If they fight and they do not make up then it will tear them apart. If they lose each other then they will have nothing. A person with nothing is scarier than a person who has something, because a person with nothing has no care because they have no reason to live. They have nothing that they have to be in a good position for. That is why Dally was the way he was. He had nothing that could keep him from doing the bad things he did. But he found something in Johnny but then that was taken from him too. When a person truly has nothing they have no care for themselves or others. They do what they want when they want. They get what they want when they want.  Soda does not want any of them to end like that. He wants a better life for himself and his brothers. ]]> 2023-03-15 16:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2518091290 morganrobinson3 https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2518208470 Dally feels terrible that Johnny died and had a miserable life and Dally really cared for Johnny, he was the brother/father figure to him. Now that he's dead he feels there's nothing else to live for in his life. So he goes and robs a grocery store and gets the police to come. He pulls a gun on them and they shoot him. He's dead. He would rather take his own life than live without Johnny. He kept his recklessness to a level so he could make sure that Johnny was safe everyday. He wanted to make Johnny feel loved and appreciated, something that his parents never did. Now that he's dead, I think he blames himself, when it's really not his fault that this whole situation happened.  

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Soda is always fixing the fights between Ponyboy and Darry, he's the therapist in the family. He's always doing it, he always has to pick sides between the two. Though he runs away because he doesn't like to see them fight. Of course he wants to help when he can. He's the lightning rod. Their fights happen too much and he was already going through enough with the letter from Sandy so he was overwhelmed with his emotions and ran away. They share a moment to recognize that Soda can also have feelings and everyone can feel in this family. ]]> 2023-03-15 18:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/morganrobinson3/2sp8xaorgv0pk32i/wish/2518208470