Imagine a life where danger lurks in every corner, and there is no hope for a shooting star to appear. This is how Dally and Johnny,two characters from S.E Hinton’s, The Outsiders, live everyday. One welcomes this trouble while the other cowers away. Dally Winston and Johnny Cade are two characters who although very different, have very similar characteristics. Johnny and Dallas are two very similar characters. For example, they both have neglectful parents. Dally was jailed at the age of ten and spent three years on the deleterious side of New York.He became hard and cold, with a hatred of the world, all because he didn’t get the proper attention. Dally himself mentions, "Blast it, Johnny, what do they matter? Shoot, my old man don't give a hang whether I'm in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter. That don't bother me none." Dally is spitting out evidence of his dad’s negligence and shows the irresponsible personality of him. If Dally had been given affection, maybe he would not have been jailed, start gangs, accost others, and be a delinquent. ...
Hinton shows two characters, Dally and Johnny, who are alike in significant ways, but they also have extreme differences. They both have abusive and neglectful parents, and know what it is like to feel unloved. Also, Dally and Johnny both care about each other in similar ways, and want the best for one another. One of the biggest differences Dally and Johnny face is following the law. Dally lives his life looking for trouble and purposely doing illegal things. Where as, Johnny follows rules and is the most law abiding in the gang. Another difference Dally and Johnny have is how they are viewed in death. Dally dies a criminal, with a brutal death from a gun. Contrary to Johnny, who dies as an honored savior and a hero. Two similar characters can have vast
For example, Johnny is physically the smallest of the group and Dally is always the one there to look out for him and help him with everything that is going on. Dally never has these parent/guardian like feelings for anyone else in the group, he clearly likes and cares for Johnny the most. Even Ponyboy realizes it when he says, “Dally is tougher than I am. Why can I take it and Dally can’t? And then I knew. Johnny was the only thing Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone”(152). Pony makes it crystal clear that Dallas cares for each other unconditionally. Similarly, Johnny has great affection and care for Dally. He realizes he can always look up to Dallas for anything and Dallas always has his back whenever Johnny is in need of some help or advice. When Ponyboy says, “Johnny worshiped the ground Dallas walked on, and I have never heard Johnny talk back to anyone, much less his hero ”(25). Like Dallas, Johnny looks up to Dally as his hero and care so greatly about him. Very much alike with each other, Dally and Johnny Both care for each other unconditionally. Therefore, Dally and Johnny are genuinely similar in many
Johnny and Dally have many blaring similarities one of them being how they both place little value on their lives. Dally a tough, mean greaser, commits
Although Johnny and Dally share some homogeneous traits, they also have very vast differences. For example, Dally is a villainous, tenacious, and greaser while Johnny is a perceptive, polite, and craven greaser. Dally does not fear anything and Johnny is petrified of his own shadow. His own gang thinks that Dally is mean, and Johnny is the gang’s pet. Dally spent three years on the wild side of New York and gets harder and tougher there, when Johnny has not even left the neighborhood. The description befitting Dally in the book just makes him seem even scarier. “His eyes were blue, blazing ice, cold with the hatred of the whole world… He was tougher than the rest of us [them] tougher, colder, meaner.” (10). This shows the confident, and indignant look on Dally’s face. On the other hand, the description for Johnny just radiates empathy and sympathy, “If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you’ll have Johnny… he had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes…”(11). The difference between the two characters is evident in these descriptions, Johnny is like a puppy and Dally could be compared to a tiger. Another example of how Johnny and Dally are different is seen through the fact that Dally loves to fight and has a huge record with the police, while Johnny detests fighting and has no tr...
When we first introduced to Dally by Hinton we learn that as a youth he served time in a New York for a murder charge. This made Dally the most paradoxical person in the story, you never knew if Dally would snap and beat you senseless or if he would protect you. But we soon learn that after witnessing Johnny’s death in the hospital Dally turned out more psychologically unstable. Thus, Dally chose suicide-by-cop. This was because Dally felt responsible for not protecting Johnny in life and felt that perhaps he could protect him in death. Both young men felt hero-worship for each other. Johnny looking to Dally for his devil-may-care attitude and Dally looks up to Johnny for his individuality and
Dally and Johnny have a lot in common despite having different views of the world. For instance, neither of these characters place much value in their lives. Johnny Cade is a sullen looking sixteen year-old who feels as though he has nothing to live for. He even writes a note to Ponyboy stating, “ Listen, I don’t mind dying now. It’s worth it. It’s worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more than mine, they have more to live for. Some of their parents came by to thank me and I know it was worth it” (178). Johnny thinks that his life is worth less than everyone elses because of the way he is treated. Similarly, Dallas does not place much value on his life and is even willing to take his own life. Ponyboy thinks,”He was dead before he hit the ground. But I knew that was what he wanted,...because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted” (154). Dallas wanted to be dead because he thought he had nothing left to hold on to. Another way Johnny and Dally are the alike is they both have parents who do not give them the attention they need. Dally’s parents do not care about his where abouts. Dally said,” Shoot, my old man don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter” (88). Clearly, his parents do not care if ...
Dally believes that if you become hard and tough like he has, then you will be your best self. Dally has known hardships all his life, and he responds to them by being cold and only looking out for himself. He believes that if Johnny was more like him, then he wouldn’t have injured and effectively killed himself. Dally expresses this to Ponyboy while driving to the hospital, saying, “‘You’d better wise up, Pony… you get tough like me and you don’t get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothing can touch you’” (147). Dally believes that being weak leads to pain and suffering. Conversely, Johnny believes that being young, emotional, and innocent is a good way to be. Johnny has experienced similar problems to Dally in his life, but instead of becoming cold and mean, he has become timid and emotional. Johnny even sacrificed his life to save a handful of children because he puts kindness and morality before his own safety. He tells Ponyboy this in a letter he wrote, saying, “I don’t mind dying… It’s worth it. It’s worth saving those kids… That’s gold. Keep that way, it’s a good way to be” (178). Johnny believes that staying “gold” and innocent is the best way to be. Dally and Johnny’s conflicting philosophies show that they have clear
Dally, a mean rude person who never shows any emotion for anyone, but when Johnny died he flipped. He could not handle it, robbed a store, and wanted the cops to kill him and they
in addition a choice made by Johnny affected Dally because Johnny ran into a burning church to save some children trapped inside. When coming out of the burning church, johnny ran got hit by
In the novel, The Outsiders, the author, S.E. Hinton, discusses the conflict between two unalike gangs, the Socs and the Greasers. The two gangs have always had tension with one another due to the fact that each group lived on different sides of the town. There was five main greasers in the novel. The boys were the best of friends. They included, Ponyboy Curtis, Dallas Winston, Johnny Cade, Darrel Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Two-bit Matthews. Johnny was the outcast of the group. Johnny was short and scrawny. The author described him looking like a ¨lost puppy¨ (Hinton, 11) or a ¨puppy that has been kicked too many times.¨ (Hinton, 11) Johnny was never known to hurt anyone. He was always the soft one of the group,
Imagine this, a 15 year old girl going to a small high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma decides to write a novel that would soon be one of the most famous young adult novels ever written. That is exactly what Susan Eloise Hinton did. S.E. Hinton was born on July 22, 1948. As a sophomore in high school, Hinton wrote The Outsiders and had it published before she graduated. S.E. Hinton grew up among two feuding groups (the greasers and the soc’s) that sparked the idea for her most famous novel, The Outsiders, which she wrote in high school after her friend was jumped.
Dally took the initiative to help Pony and Johnny out of their trouble and helped them escape. Not only paying for their food, he also gave them a place to hide. After that, Dally picks them up to get something to eat, then going back to the church is burning up in flames as a group of small kids and a few teachers were out for a class picnic. Pony and Johnny rush to the rescue as Dally follows. Afterwards, Johnny is stuck inside and Dallas Pulls him out and an ambulance takes the boys. Though this was very brave, it was a one time situation as to Darrel taking care of both Pony and Soda. If it wasn’t for Darry, him and his brothers would be living on the streets.
How can two people who are so different have so much in common? How can a kid who went to jail at the age of ten have anything in common with some kid that does not have a record with the police. However, in S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders there are two such characters. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are similar because there parents do not pay attention to them and the gang is their family. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are different because Dally likes fighting and Johnny does not. They are also different because Dally is the follows the laws the least and Johnny follows them the most. Therefore, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston have similarities in their life but have a lot of differences.
How can two people, who have countless differences, still have similarities? This is true of two characters, Dally Winston and Johnny Cade, in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Johnny and Dally are similar because they both have neglectful parents and place little value on their own lives. In contrast, Johnny is the most law-abiding and Dally is the least. Also, Dally likes to fight, but Johnny does not. Therefore, Dally and Johnny have different personalities, but similar problems.
In The Outsiders, author S. E. Hinton developed the character of Dallas Winston “Dally” through a series of unfortunate events which took him from a cold, and tough greaser to a caring and not so cold young man who thinks about others and not just himself. When the reader is first introduced to Dally, Ponyboy describes him as being tougher than the rest of them. He also says Dally is colder and meaner. However as the story comes to an end, you see a new side of Dally; the side in which he is so upset about the death of his buddy Johnny that he commits suicide by cop.