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Ponyboy wants to refuse that Johnny is dead because they are buddies, and the gang needs Johnny as much as Johnny needs them
Ponyboy
He really liked Johnny
Ponyboy kept telling himself Johnny wasn't dead because he did not want to believe it. Ponyboy put all the blame on himself and felt really guilty. Dr. S
that he lives with his brothers, and his parents are dead
Ponyboy wants to refuse that Johnny is dead because they are buddies, and the gang needs Johnny as much as Johnny needs them
Ponyboy
He really liked Johnny
Ponyboy kept telling himself Johnny wasn't dead because he did not want to believe it. Ponyboy put all the blame on himself and felt really guilty. Dr. S
that he lives with his brothers, and his parents are dead
Ponyboy told him that Johnny and Dally weren't dead, and that he had killed Bob himself.
He finally comes to terms with the fact that both Dally and Johnny are dead. He also says to himself that Johnny isn't dead and Dally wanted to die.
He remembered that even though everything seems hopeless right now it will get better because everything has hope in it.
Johnny killed Bob because Bob and his friends had beat him up before and he was scared. Also, the Socs were drowning Pony and it was the only way to save him.
he waned to believe that johnny cade was alive and he refused to accept the fact he was dead!
He goes in to a type of shock and is a bit delusional after watching both his close friends die.
Ponyboy said that Johnny didn't have anything to do with Bob getting killed, because he didn't want Johnny taking the blame. Johnny was already dead, and Ponyboy didn't want him to look like a bad person (because he'd saved Ponyboy's life).