Similarities Between Dally And Johnny In The Outsiders

Living the way that Johnny did, he did something great in his life. He didn’t deserve to die, but he died a hero and not everyone in the town where the greasers lived agree. Johnny lived in a world where he was probably scared every time he walked around town and that flat out sucks. He didn’t have the best family life, but he had Dally and that was pretty great because Dally loved Johnny. “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.” (Hinton pg. 152).

In this book, everyone was part of a gang and everyone looked at each other as either a Soc ,or a Greaser. Johnny, who has been abusively beaten while getting jumped and from his own father at home, and Pony save children from a burning house. No one would expect the hoodlums to risk their lives to save children. They have a reputation for doing illegal things and getting arrested. However, newspapers have stories on the two and labelled them as “heroes”. Dally, who was the toughest and baddest of all the Greasers, kills himself. The true reason behind this was because after going to the hospital to visit Johnny, he witnessed watching him die right in front of his eyes. Johnny’s death makes him rob a store and having the police intentionally kill him. The only thing that he loved was Johnny and his beloved thing was gone. This shows that Dally, even though he’s a Greaser and does all these horrible things, has feelings. Even people who genuinely knew him, labelled him as having no feelings. Also, Randy, who is a soc, talks to Pony about Bob and how he was just a regular guy who had his own problems. The only reason that Bob would act out and drink a lot was because his parents would never set boundaries. He just wanted for someone to tell him “No”. Cherry Valance, who was Bob’s girlfriend, even said that he was actually sweet. This shows that people are individuals and that labels don’t say who you

Another similarity that makes Johnny and Dally similar is through their value of life. Dally has never really cared about what happens to him. He goes around trying to break laws and getting caught, going to jail, getting out, and then repeating. He never really cares about how he turns out and what will happen to him. He has never respected his life. He gets in fights all the time and is mean. When he kills himself just because Johnny died, he gave up on the world. Everyone knew he would die like this, “I knew he would be dead, because Dallas Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted” (154). His value of his life is very little and when Johnny dies he brakes. Similarly, Johnny’s value in life is limited. In the letter he wrote to Ponyboy, he talks about how

Johnny was the one that needed his friends the most, with a dad that beat him, and a mom that ignored him, until she needed something to yell at, then she yelled at him so loud Ponyboy could hear it from down the street. Due to this abusive relationship with his parents, Johnny needed something, or someone to fall back on, this was the gang, including Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Two-Bit, Dally, and Steve. Johnny often slept over at Ponyboy's when life at home was especially hard, and Ponyboy even claimed "He would have ran away a million times if we weren't there"

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 is scared of his own shadow and Dally does not fear anything. His own gang thinks that Johnny is the gang’s pet and dally is mean. Johnny has never left the greaser neighborhood, when Dally spent three years on the wild side in New York and gets tougher and harder there.

As much as they are alike, they both are very different from another, such as Johnny is more law abiding, while Dally is the least. For example, Johnny Cade is the most law abiding greaser because he does not want any trouble with anybody. Johnny only had one offense with the police which is manslaughter, but it is clearly self defense. For instance, when the socs jump Johnny he does not fight back because he does not want trouble with them. Johnny tells Dally and Pony, ‘“I ain’t got no record with the fuzz”’(87). When Johnny is wanting to turn himself into the police after the killing of the soc. On the other hand, Dally is not law abiding at all. He always wants to be involved in fights or in trouble. He is proud of his record with the police. Ponyboy says, “‘He had been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids--- he did everything’”(11). He has quite a reputation with the police. Dally was in

Johnny and Dally are basically polar opposites with respect to their personalities. At the beginning of the story, Johnny’s personality is described. The author writes, “Johnny couldn’t say “boo” to a goose… I had never heard Johnny talk back to anyone” (35). It is shown that Johnny is a very shy and sensitive boy. Since Johnny

Society has had issues with violence through all of history and still today. There is violence seen when they talk about Johnny and his home life. Pony was explaining to Cherry how Johnny got hurt and why he gets scared easily. Ponyboy stated, “We were used to seeing Johnny banged up — his father clobbered him around a lot. (32)” This shows how violence could affect someone’s life in a negative light. Secondly, the socs and the greasers rely on each other to survive one the streets and today’s gangs now rely on each other too. On page 59 to 62, Dally helped Johnny and Ponyboy like family because he helped them when they needed it the most. This sounded like the gangs now and how they give advice to the people that are in trouble. Lastly, the greasers believe that fighting is just a way of life. Dally relies on violence because that’s all he knows. His parents didn't care about him and with a very violent world, he goes to jail at ten years old. With that, it created a person that lives for violence and crime. For instance, people today still think that violence is the answer to everything. ISIS an Islamic terrorist group terrorizes people because they want their point across. Why can’t people just resolve things peacefully? Humans should speak their mind verbally, instead of physical harm to innocent people. Both in the book and in today's society, people use physical harm to solve problems and that creates an issue of

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

Something important to realize is that before Dally intervened Johnny just said, “‘We’re goin’ back and turn ourselves in’. . . Johnny nodded. ‘I’m sure. It ain’t fair fair for Ponyboy to have to stay up in that church with Darry and Soda worryin’ about him all the time”’(Hinton 87). This is saying that because he doesn’t want Ponyboy to be in hiding and his brothers worrying about him, this had an effect on Johnny’s decision since he didn't want them getting hurt for something he did. Overall it proves how the gang had an influence on Johnny’s decision to turn himself in because he didn't want Darry and Sodapop to suffer that Ponyboy was gone. Moreover, Dally responds to Johnny by saying to him, “‘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. . . You get hardened in jail. I don’t want that to happen to you. Like it happened to me”’(Hinton 89-90). In effect, Dally tried to explain to Johnny why he didn't want him to turn himself in, as doing so would change him if he went to prison. In that case Johnny’s decision was influenced by multiple gang members to turn himself in or not. Under those circumstances Johnny decided to drop the conversation for now, not making a decision just

Ponyboy talks about Johnny’s parents, “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him”(12). Johnny’s parents are always mauling and berating him, so he stays away from home as much as he can. The gang treats Johnny like a younger brother and cares for him because his parents

Dally’s actions after Johnny’s death were unexpected because he ditched Ponyboy, robbed a store, went on the run from the police, and called the gang for help making a getaway. The police had surrounded Dally before the gang could get to him and they watched as he pulled a gun and was shot on the spot. The loss of Johnny literally killed

Johnny and Dally have many similarities in the novel ”The Outsiders.” One is that they both have abusive and neglectful parents. Dally’s dad does not pay attention to him. “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). This shows that Dally’s dad does not care about him all that much. He doesn’t show Dally that he loves or cares about him at all. His dad wouldn’t notice if he were gone or dead which means that he obviously does not think about him as often as he should. Likewise, Johnny’s parents also does not show him much affection. “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him…” (12). This shows how Johnny’s dad does not care about how he treats Johnny, he just beats him up.

Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Darry are all a part of the unruly gang, the Greasers. S.E Hinton is writing these characters as rebellious young men, with a harsh background, who takes their anger and hardship out on gang fighting. These roles play an important part in this book because it shows that even though they nothing physically, they have a heart stronger than gold for each other and others mentally. Hinton use these characters to show prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression because these “poor” young men are getting beat up by the rich Socs who have never felt the feeling of being in poverty. “ You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don’t stick up for them, stick together, make