Why did Johnny Cade want to read Gone With the Wind at the hospital?

In The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Johnny Cade and Ponyboy
are in major trouble and they have to leave town.  While they are hiding out they begin
reading Gone With The Wind.  When Johnny was injured and in the
hospital he wanted a copy of the novel because he liked how all of the men in the novel
sounded like gentlemen and heroes.  He wanted to be a hero.  He enjoyed that the
characters in Gone With The Wind always seemed to save people and are
genteel. 

Johnny came from a poor background where no one
really cared about him.  Yet, he wanted to amount to so much more.  He wanted to make a
difference in his life and the life of others.  The men in Gone With The
Wind were very different than the people he was used to so he enjoyed reading
about them.