Johnny And Dally Similarities

Another difference between Dally and Johnny are Dally love to fight and has a huge record with the police, while Johnny hates

Dally and Johnny have one very remarkable similarity and that gang is their family. The one similarity stands out more than others because it describes them both the best. They both have parents who do not give them the right attention like any other child. For instance, Dally was arrested at such a young age. If his parents cared about him, he would not of been running with gangs and he would not of been in jail in the first place. Dally never brings up his mother and he only brings up his father once to say, “‘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). Dally Winston is the real gang member and that is his life. Dally makes

“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.

The author writes, “Johnny’s eyes glowed. Dally was proud of him. That was all Johnny had ever wanted” (148). Johnny’s reaction is priceless. Out of the entire greaser gang, Johnny and Dally’s relationship is the strongest and most significant. When Johnny needs Dally the most, he is his staunchest supporter. In return, Johnny gives back the same, if not more, amount of affection to Dally. When Dally and Johnny die, Ponyboy makes a list of realizations. Ponyboy thinks, “But I remembered Dally pulling Johnny through the window of the burning church; Dally giving us his gun, although it could mean jail for him; Dally risking his life for us, trying to keep Johnny out of trouble.” (154). It is clearly proven that ‘tough’ Dallas Winston makes a substantial effort to make Johnny’s life better. If Dally would not make the effort for Johnny, then Johnny would have to experience life worse than it already is. Since Dally thinks of Johnny almost like a little brother, it would hurt Dally to see Johnny experience that kind of pain. Dally and Johnny are bonded by these similarities, but they are also bonded through their differences.

In contrast to the removed Johnny shown early on, after the realization that he endangered several children, he boldly rushed to assist. After killing Bob in self-defense, Johnny bolts with Ponyboy to an abandoned church in the countryside. However, after presumably dropping a lighted cigarette, the church ignites in a blaze of fumes. Realizing there are children in the flaming church, Johnny and Ponyboy dart to aid. During the calamity, Ponyboy realizes that, “Johnny had been right behind me all the way” as he slips through a broken window and into the fiery church and notes that, “Johnny wasn’t behaving at all like his old self...That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes” (92).

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 Cade and Dally Winston have one significant similarity and that is they both have neglectful parents. For example, Dally is arrested at the age of ten in New York while beginning in a gang. If Dally’s parents gave him more attention he would have not have gone to jail so young. Dally only mentions his father once to say, “‘ 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). Dally clearly states that his parents are not involved in his life. In like manner, Johnny Cade has parents who, ignored him and hit him all of the time. Johnny is a nice boy that cares about Dally. Johnny’s parents hit him all of the time and yell at him. Ponyboy states: “‘ His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, expected when she was hacked off at something, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear

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One major similarity Johnny and Dally share is that they both have abusive parents. For example, Dally’s parents show no love for him. Dally never mentions his mother and he only mentions his father once. When he mentions his father, he says, “‘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). Dally has been on his own ever since he was ten and sleeps wherever he wants. Similarly, Johnny has parents that abuse him. Johnny usually stays in the Curtis’ house or sleeps in a vacant lot. He barely goes home, but when he does his parents give him grief. His friend, Ponyboy, states, “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was

Whenever Johnny gets abused, bullied by his parents, he would run off from home and find somewhere quiet to stay alone and rest, he prefers to take all the harm by himself, endure all injuries his parents have brought him, and never speak a word about it. "I had seen Johnny take a whipping with a two-by-four from his old man and never let out a whimper." (43) Whenever Dally get abused, or when someone offended him, he would just run off and have a fight with someone else in the neighborhoods, or he would rob something get the cops coming. " He went hunting some action--- booze or dames or a fight." "Mr. Curly Shepard spotted Dallas slashing their tires" (37) They also react differently in a fight.

One significant similarity between Dally and Johnny is that they both have a horrible home life. For instance, Johnny often sleeps in the lot and doesn’t go home because his father beats him. Even though Johnny is beat at home he still thinks his parents

Johnny and Dally both are similar as neglectful and abusive parents are both what they have. Buck Merrils is where Dally sleeps and not at

Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade both have a similar home life, their parents do not care about them, they are abused, and are also left on their own to live. “Shoot my old man don't give a hang weather om in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter.”( ) This shows how much Dally's parents have no care for him. Even if he was dead or severely hurt, they would not care. Dally os old enough to be on his own but his parents should always be there for him.

Similarities and differences are always found between friends. The things that make friends alike and dissimilar, help them create a strong bond between each other. Two friends who are similar and different in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, are Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston. These two boys both have neglectful and abusive parents and place little value on their lives. Although Johnny and Dally are somewhat similar, they also have differences between the type of characters they are and the image they have after they die. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston both have similarities and differences in the novel, The Outsiders.

but he was sensitive and that isn’t a good way to be when you’re a greaser”(88). Although both characters are similar family wise, their personalities are very different. Another example of both characters being different is how they die. Dally dies a hoodlum; he robs a bank and pulls his fake gun to the officers, “Dally didn’t die a hero.