Personal Narrative-Abolishing A Store

Most people in the world are misunderstood at some point in their life. However, if other people’s perceptions of a person create a reputation, it can camouflage their real traits. Dallas (Dally) Winston is a victim of this. A character in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Dally is commonly known for being a tough ruthless guy who doesn’t care about anybody but himself. He’s a great fighter and is very confident, but because of his past, it seems his real qualities have been masked. Even though Dallas Winston’s friends misunderstood him to be a cold-hearted and tough person, his experiences and how he treats his friends reveals his loving, self-reliant, and dependable nature.

This causes Dally to become reckless and finally ending in him being killed by the police, Ponyboy tells the reader “Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.” (p.187). From this the reader can gather how the events had modified Dally, creating a more emotional and caring character, weakening his value for himself and in return, strengthening his value for others.

• Dally went in after the collapse of the roof and pulled Johnny out of the building

“Why does the mailbox have to be so far?” Zuri thinks to herself as she turns the corner of North Broadview Avenue and Red Wood Road. As she rounds the corner she looks up only in time to see a white Lincoln town car barreling towards her and barely manages to jump backwards as it screeches to a stop right where she had been standing a few second ago. A tall, young black man hops out of the car and walks over to Zuri asking “Are you all right?” as he reaches out his hand to help her up. “Yeah I think so.” She replies as she gets up and dust herself off and looks around for her keys. “What you looking for?” the young man asks. “My keys I lost them when I jumped out of the way” she tells the young man as she continues to search for the keys.

When Booker pushed open the warehouse door the following morning, he found the derelict space empty. Confused, he glanced at his watch. At just past quarter to eight, Tom was late, and the dark-haired officer couldn’t help but wonder if he would show up at all. His harsh words the previous night had obviously impacted negatively on his friend, however, he still wasn’t sure what he could say to take the hurt away. He wasn’t proud of his actions, and he deeply regretted his disparaging remarks, especially because his target was a man who lacked confidence. After their altercation, he’d sought solitude in a bottle of whiskey, but his guilt had only escalated as he struggled to make sense of his feelings. It was then he had started to wonder if he really was a bully who got off on other people’s pain.

“ A toe nudged me in the ribs. “ Glory.” said a rough but familiar voice, “ He looks diffrent with his hair like that.” I rolled over and sat up, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes and yawning. Suddenly I blinked. “ Hey Dally!”

One thing you can grasp from his death and this detail is the cops killed Dally because they shot him but in the example given it shows he knew what hes was doing, so basically Dally wanted to die. Another example is Dally never went on a rampage and robbed from that grocery store the cops wouldn’t have been searching for him. According to “The Outsiders” on page 153 its says “ It was Dally. He phoned from a booth. He just robbed a grocery store and the cops are after him.”

Firstly, Dally’s actions and words were, “"Here"--- he handed us a gun and a roll of bills--- "the gun's loaded. For Pete's sake, Johnny, don't point the thing at me. Here's fifty bucks. That's all I could get out of Merril tonight He's blowin' his loot from that last race."” Without thinking twice, Dally was ready to help Johnny and Ponyboy because he cared for them. Even though Dallas Winston does not care if he gets in trouble, but he cared if Johnny and Pony did. For example, Dallas Winston told Johnny, “"Johnny," Dally said in a a pleading, high voice, using a tone I had never heard from him before, "Johnny, I ain't mad at you. I just don't want you to get hurt. You don't know what a few months in jail can do to you. Oh, blast it, Johnny"--- he pushed his white-blond hair back out of his eyes--- "you get hardened in jail. I don't want that to happen to you. Like it happened to me..."” Dally knows that his dangerous exploits are fun for him, but not the personality Johnny has or deserves. When Dally, a hoodlum has an implored tone it has a significant meaning that proves Johnny and Ponyboy bring out the soft and affection. Therefore, Dallas Winston is proven a loyal member of the Greaser

This shows that Soda knew that deep down, Dally knew where the boys were, however sticking to his promise of not telling where they were, the secret stayed safe. Dallas Winston, who is cold, tough, and mean, really does love and show self-sacrifice towards his

The scene included in the movie when Dally robs the store gives the audience the understanding of how depressed and upset Dally Winston (Played by Matt Dillon) was and why he was led to robbing this store. This happened in the book, yes, but it never showed what really happened at the time. The scene starts off with Dally, his blank face frozen in that one horrified expression, and his dazed,

‘Let’s clear out,’ he called. ‘Let’s get going, boys.’ The men shuffled back into their cars and were gone” (Lee 40). Although Walter Cunningham arrived at the jail with the purpose of harming or killing Tom, Scout opened up his moral values and showed him the wrongdoing of his actions even though she didn’t know it. When Walter left the jail with his gang, real courage could be seen.

We had been so bored finished half the baloney, and nearly finished our whole pack of weeds, Johnny had promised to pick up more supplies in a couple of days, I had felt sick, when a toe nudged me in the ribs,” Glory,” a familiar voice had said,” He looks different with his hair like that.” It was Dally, I rolled over, rubbed my eyes real sleepy like yawning, finally I blinked, I nearly blew Dally’s eardrums out when I yelled,” Hey, Dally!”He yelled back,” Hey Ponyboy,” he looked down at me,” or should I say sleeping beauty?” Ponyboy had thought he would never see or imagine the day when he would be so happy to see Dallas Winston, but that day had come. As excited as I was to see Dally I knew it only meant one thing, contact with the outside world everything had become real and very vital. I immediately abused what I just had recieved and asked,” How’s Sodapop? Are the fuzz after us?

A major character in the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is a wild, uneducated, “tuff,” and tough, juvenile delinquent that is a teenager named Dallas “Dally” Winston. Set in the 60’s in Tulsa Oklahoma, Dally is from the East side of town. He is a greaser who likes messing with girls, stealing, and getting drunk at parties. He drinks all night and steals all day. Dally displays many traits such as being cold, rebellious, and

To begin with Dally pulled the gun out so the cops would shoot him is because of his bad record. First of all, Dally was arrested at the age of 10! This is stated in the text by S.E. Hinton on page ten “Dally had spent three days on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten.” Next, to blow off steam when he was infuriated he would get into gang fights. This is also stated in the text on page eleven by S.E. Hinton “In New York, Dally blew off steam in gang fights, but here, organized gangs are rarities- there are just small bunches of friends who stick together, and the warfare is between the social classes.” And above all, Dally would always get drunk, ride in rodeos, lie, cheat, steal, roll drunks, and jump little kids. This can be proven as the text states on page

His words rolled in my head time and time again. I had finally come to a conclusion, he was right. I called him up there was no sound but I knew he was listening. I disregarded it and continued my search. I arrived at Forsyth’s office at the stroke of midnight. I passed by the janitor’s closet and found two uniforms with the anagram S.W.A.T on them, along with the flash drive. Click! I heard the sound of a gun being cocked. There he was standing over me, as he had stood over my boss’s body; Forsyth was holding a gun right above my head. I reacted quickly and took the flash drive before he could turn me