Dally and Johnny
Sometimes the people who seem to be opposites are not so different at all. Throughout
, S. E. Hinton proves this, but never as well as with Johnny and Dally. Although they come from similarly abusive households and care immensely about the other, the characters have very different views. They have different outlooks on the law and the world in general.
Johnny and Dally both face abuse at home. Dally sleeps wherever he can, as his house is not a place in which he can stay. Throughout the book, he never mentions his mother, and he talks about his father only once during the story. While Johnny is asking about his parents, Dally says his father pays no attention to whether he is “‘... in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk
Dally and Johnny are similar in a way of knowing what it is like to have abusive and neglectful parents. There is no love coming from Dally’s home, which is why he does some reckless things. The neglect he faces at home affects his ability to love others. His parents do not interact with him and Dally states, “‘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). Dally’s
Dally helped the two boys escape the law even though they had done something wrong. Pony and Johnny had been minding their own business when they got jumped by the Socs and Johnny ended up killing one of them. They knew that they were in trouble and they needed some thing like money and a gun. They went to Dally and he gave
There are many interesting quotes of the protagonist, Harold “Peewee” Gates, that stood out to me in the book Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. There were many quotes that revealed about his life but there were two that stood out to me. In a conversation Peewee is talking to Perry about how is life in the United States and army life are different. “‘But this is the first place I ever been in my life where I got what everybody else got.’” ~Peewee (page 15) This quote reveals that Peewee came from a rough place and grew up in poverty since this is the first time he has had what everyone else has. It also shows how strict his mother was because he wasn’t allowed to have what everyone else had or what he wanted besides basic necessities.
Two people with two completely different characteristics have something alike. Both Dally and Johnny are mentally tough because of their parents. Johnny and Dally’s parents both do not care for them and could care less about them. For example, during Dally’s childhood he went to jail, been in a gang, and has been in many fights and his dad still would not care for him even if he won the lottery. Dally also talks about his dad's disgrace towards him in the car with Johnny and Ponyboy, “‘ Shoot, my dad don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in a gutter...’”(88). Dally could easily live without his dad and he does for the most part. Dally just hangs around with his friends and stays at their place. Similarly, Johnny's parents use him like a rag doll to blow off steam, “his father always beating him up”(14). The gang knows what happenes in Johnny’s house. Once Ponyboy was witnessing, “Johnny take a whipping with a two-by-four from his old man”(33). Ponyboy talks about how loud and mean Johnny's mom is and,“you can...
The play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry has many interesting characters. In my opinion, the most fascinating character is Ruth because of her many emotions and captivating personality. She goes through extreme emotions in the play such as happiness, sadness, anger, stress, and confusion. Ruth is very independent, firm, kind, witty, and loving.
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.” Joey Costello, the main character's best friend, he is an example of bad sportsmanship. This is because Joey thinks that if he doesn’t make an amazing first impression on the Tangerine Middle School's soccer team, then he would just quit the team altogether. He decides that he shouldn’t play at all if he is teased. He could just keep played and show them how well he played soccer. He didn’t even try to become friend with Victor and his buddies, he, instead, just played once and quit soccer all together, at every school!!! He still can be a good friend, he is to Paul. In the novel, Tangerine, characters (like Joey) demonstrate both good and bad sportsmanship on and
A boy named Johnny who saves kids in a burning church and saves them but he is in very bad condition in the hospital. Johnny has had a very rough life ever since he was born. Almost every day they would hit him and beat him but that did not stop him from doing anything. Johnny has brown hair and he is part of the Greasers. He usually wears a jean jacket or some type of jacket with his hair greased back. Johnny is brave, afraid, and compassionate those are some traits. Those are some things that describe him. I chose this character because he was one of the main characters and I liked how he always was nice and stood up for others.
After Johnny commits the crime, they go to Dally’s seeking protection from avenging Socs, who might try to kill them. But if Johnny was innocent, why couldn’t they just confront the police of the accident? If they had, it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. But then, Dally decided to lie about their location to the police, thus making things more suspicious. Why do you lie and run away if you’re innocent? It’s because you’re not. You’re guilty.
I wondered. Dally is tougher than I am. Why can I take it when Dally can't? And then I knew. Johnny was the only thing Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone. 130
The character I chose to analyze is Bonnie Grape from What's Eating Gilbert Grape, an American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström. Bonnie Grape is a Caucasian woman who is, approximately, in her mid 50’s and lives in a small town of Endora, Iowa with her four children, and has lost her husband seven years ago. Bonnie who is suppose to be the immediate care taker of all of her kids is shown to have abandoned all of her parental duties after her husbands passing and she hasn’t left the house for seven years. She has become completely housebound she sleeps, eats, and stays on the couch all day. Her day starts out with eating breakfast with the family, and then she watches TV all day. Even though she loves her children a lot, but she does not take any part in raising them. She also has become an object of ridicule or amusement many times children sneak on to the yard to catch a glimpse of her through the window. However, Bonnie sees no problem with her weight or her lifestyle, until one day when she has to make a trip to the town for her son. When Bonnie is leaving the town a crowd comes together around the police station to get a glimpse of Bonnie, and many also begin taking pictures of her. At this point, Bonnie realizes that she has become something that she never intended to be. In one particular scene Bonnie tells her oldest son Gilbert “I know what a burden I am. I know that you are ashamed of me. I never meant to be like this. I never wanted to be a joke” (Hallström, 1993). From Bonnie’s background information we can conclude that she is clearly facing some psychological problems, and in order to gain more information we would have to conduct more assessments.
Johnny saw that Pony was unhappy because he missed his brothers that were back home. Johnny thought that the only reason Pony was still there in the church with him was because he was the one who wanted to run away in the first place . Johnny finally decided to turn himself in because Pony hadn’t committed a crime and Johnny would be let of easy for saving the kids . Johnny would do anything for his buddies but he has a limit and I think that limit is girls. I don’t think that Johnny would of yelled at Dally if he wouldn’t of disrespected those girls the way he did. Although he yelled at his buddy he was the hero of those two Socs that Dally was disrespecting and he got a complement from them and they let him and Pony sit with
Through a young man’s eye we see how he views life and what is important to him and his reactions to the important life obstacles. Dexter is the main character we meet him young, he works at a golf course that he caddies for. We also meet someone important to the story as well who is young named Judy Jones. Judy is the girl of Dexter’s dreams and will be awhile down the story. Dexter has three desires that he thinks about through the whole book and they are love, happiness and, wealth. Dexter is put through these obstacles throughout the whole book and it has shaped his choices and feelings.
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