A hero is someone who risks their lives just to save someone. And it might even be to someone they don’t even know.
Ponyboy, Johnny and Dally are the hero’s in The Outsiders. They are heroes because they saved the kids in the fire. “ He looked over his shoulder and saw that the door was blocked by flames, then pushed open the windows and tossed out the nearest kid.” Page 92. Chapter 6. The evidence proves that Ponyboy, Johnny and Dally are heroes because it shows that they are trying to save the kids in the fire.
Another reason why, or how they are hero’s is because Johnny saved Ponyboy from being drowned by The Socs, by killing them so that way