During one scene of the book Johnny and Ponyboy are walking to a park after hanging out with the Socs girlfriends. While the boys were just chilling there and enjoying the night stars they see a blue mustang roll up. A group of Socs jump out the car and start to beat Johnny and Ponyboy up. The handsome young Soc Bob starts drowning Ponyboy in the fountain that sits in the middle of the park. Ponyboy soon passes out underwater and the next thing he knows he wake sup next toJohnny sitting by the fountain next to a dead body.
“The next thing I knew I was lying on the pavement beside the fountain, coughing water and gasping. I lay there weakly, breathing in air and spitting out water. The wind blasted through my soaked sweatshirt and dripping hair. My teeth clattered unceasingly and I couldn’t stop them. I finally pushed myself up and leaned back against the fountain, the water running down my face. Then I saw Johnny. He was sitting next to me, one elbow on his knee, and starting straight ahead. He was a strange greenish-white, and his eyes were huger than I’d ever seen them.”
“‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy’” (Hinton 56)
After the attack from the Socs Johnny had to kill the boy because if not they would’ve killed Ponyboy. When you think of Johnny you think of him as a “little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times,” (Hinton 11) and the person that would never hurt a fly. This scene brings out an entire new side of Johnny, one that you could never imagine him to be like. I was incredibly shocked when I had read this scene. Not even I could believe it, but when it comes to the boys they’re all brothers and once again would do anything for each other. This is a prime example of how far they would go for each other. Now you can see that the once innocent boys are now about to live the life of a runaway, and they are no longer boys but adult criminals.
Brotherhood 