Compare And Contrast The Outsider By S. E. Hinton

Although Dally and Johnny share some alike traits, they also have many differences. For example, Dally is a tenacious, villainous, and a greaser while Johnny is a polite, perceptive, and craven greaser.

“You’d be surprised how much you can have in common with someone completely different than you.” -Anonymous. This statement is true in S.E Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, two characters are very different, but have multiple similarities. Dally Winston and Johnny Cade are similar because they both have abusive parents and they both care about one another. On the other hand, they have opposite personalities and have different opinions on the law. Therefore, Dally Winston and Johnny Cade are very similar yet completely different.

A similarity Johnny and Dally both share is a terrible home life. Early in the novel, Ponyboy dissects Johnny’s homelife. Pony says, “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was

Dally and Johnny may be very different, but they have extremely important similarities. For example, both of these characters place very little value on their lives. Dally is first arrested at the age of ten and he loves to break

Johnny wants to turn himself in for killing bob. “ I ain't got no record with the fuzz... Johnny had a deathly fear of cops”(87). Johnny thinks that it is best for him to turn himself into the police for killing bob. Since he has no record he thinks he will be let off easy. Johnny is scared of the police which is probably why he has no record. Jolly doesn't like to break the rules. Even though, Johnny is very law abiding and play by the rules, Dally is the exact opposite In the beginning of the story the author is defining all the characters. “He has been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids”(11). Dally just about breaks every single law/rule. He has been arrested 3 times and the first is when he is just ten years old. He is in gang fights and a lot of other rumbles. Part of this might relate back to the fact that he is on his own and pretty much has no family. This is how Dally finds happiness by fighting and breaking laws.

For instance, Dally cannot do anything the legal way. He does not like to follow the law and has a really long police record. When Pony is in the ambulance with Jerry he says, “‘. . . and Dallas has a record with the fuzz a mile long,”’ (95). Dally is extremely proud of his record with the police. Conversely, out of all the greasers, Johnny is the most law abiding. He always keeps his mouth shut when it comes to the police. When Johnny decides to turn himself in for Bob’s murder, he says, “‘I ain’t got no record with the fuzz . . .”’ (87). Johnny believes that the police will go easy on him because he always obeys the law. Clearly, this is one major difference between Dally and

In the novel “ The outsiders” by SE Hinton, Johnny and Dally have many differences but also a few similarities. Sometimes friends can be very different but brought together by their similarities. How can two people be different but still be friends? Johnny and Dally have some similarities, one of them is both Johnny and Dally have bad, neglectful, abusive parents.

Just because two people of the same social class are so similar but also so different. In S.E.Hinton’s novel The Outsiders two of her characters Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are both greasers so they must have similarities, but they also have many differences too. Johnny and Dally are very similar but also different.

There is a myriad of similarities between Dally and Johnny, but one of the countless ways Johnny’s character resembles that of Dally is they both care for one another. A time when this resemblance is delineated in Johnny is when he is dying and in the hospital. “Johnny’s eyes glowed. Dally was proud of him.

He is also a confidante character because he discloses his most inner feelings with Ponyboy. He also has his love needs met because all Johnny ever wanted was for Dally to be proud of him “Johnny’s eyes glowed. Dally was proud of him. That’s all he had ever wanted.” (148) Johnny finds a way to meet his belongingness and love needs without having his basic physiological needs met.

One example of Johnny and Dally being similar is that both of them come from a neglecting and abusive family. Both of their parents do not care where they are or what they are doing.

This book showed the struggle between rich and poor. The two main groups of the story were the Socs and the greasers. The Socs are in the upper class while the greasers are the poor ones that dislike the Socs because they have more money, better cars, and act like they are better than the greasers. The Outsiders is a good story by S.E. Hinton that shows the struggles of growing up Hinton did a fine job with the character development, the plot, and the theme with a few flaws.

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“The Outsiders”, written by SE Hinton outlines the division of rich and poor, honor and individual identity. An important character in the novel is Dallas Winston who his friends call Dally. At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy dislikes him and refers to him as “tougher, colder and meaner”. Slowly throughout the book, you see Dally’s other side and he is soft underneath the hard shell of his body. The division of the rich and poor is the key idea in the book, the Soc’s being the rich and the Greaser’s being the poor. Dally fits into the greasers and he is “tuff”, loyal and caring towards his gang.

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