Have you ever been good friends with someone who is nothing like you? Or with someone who is exactly like you? Maybe you wish you had their qualities, or wish they had your’s. People are friends with each other for many different reasons, like Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston from “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton. They are alike in many ways, but also different in just as many ways. Johnny looks up to Dally and Dally looks after Johnny. Johnny and Dally have many similarities and differences that seem to bring them together. Johnny and Dally both do not have it so great at home. Johnny’s parents were always either abusing him or completely ignoring him. Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator of “The Outsiders” says “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something, then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house.” (12) When Johnny was in critical condition at the hospital after saving some kids from a burning building, his mother came to the hospital to yell at him and tell him how much trouble he was causing them. Dally does not speak much of his parents, but from what he says you can tell that his parents are the same. He says to Johnny “‘Shoot, my old man don’t give a hang whether i’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the sewer.” (58) Dally went to jail at the age of ten, and his parents did not even care. Dally’s parents are just as neglectful as Johnny’s. Johnny and Dally both really cared about
In the letter that Johnny left for Ponyboy,“‘There's still a lot of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he knows’” (179). The note Johnny left for Ponyboy to tell Dally, but it was too late for that. Ponyboy says, “Johnny worshipped the ground Dallas walked on”(25). This shows that Johnny is just Dally’s pet. Johnny knows that Dally cares about him but he does not show it because is a tough person. All in all, Both characters care for each other.
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
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
Johnny Cade and Dallas winston are two characters from S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders. Like most characters Dally and johnny have their similarities and differences. Johnny and dally both have neglectful parents, which is why Dally is always in jail and Johnny's father does not even know Johnnys name. Another similarity is how they both place little value on their lives. Dally commits suicide and johnny states that it was worth dieing. A difference between the two is that Johnny dies a hero and Dally dies a hoodlum. The police shoot Dally, and Johnny is crushed by a burning building. In addition Johnny hates fights while Dally loves them, Dally breaks out of a hospital to go to a fight and Johnny states fighting is useless.
Dally and Johnny share many similarities and differences. Both Johnny and Dally have terrible parents and do not place much value on their lives. Yet, despite these similarities, they each have very dissimilar personalities. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston, two characters from S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, share many significant similarities and differences.
Dally’s father sees him as a juvenile delinquent, and the greasers know him as a good person. He does do wrong things, but he then to make up that bad thing he does a good thing. Dally’s father only knows him as the bad kid, and his father does not care about him at all. “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). Correspondingly, Johnny’s parents were also abusive.
No matter the similarities, two people always have differences. In S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston show perfect examples of similarities and differences. Dally and Johnny possess many differences and similarities. Both Johnny and Dally grew up in neglectful homes and place little values for their lives. Johnny and Dally also have differences between each other. Dally and Johnny have different ways of seeing the emotions of people in the world. Dally and Johnny also have extremely different personalities. Dally and Johnny both have similarities and differences to each other.
How can two people have so many similarities yet be vastly different? In S.E. Hinton’s, The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are two boys in a gang of greasers with both similarities and differences. Both Johnny and Dally have abusive parents and the love and care for eachother. On the other hand, Johnny is the most law-abiding while Dally is the least in the gang. Also, Johnny dies a dynamic character while Dally dies a static character.
Dally is a very important character in the novel, The Outsiders. Dally helps Ponyboy and Johnny after Johnny kills a soc. He hands them money, a gun, and a map. He also gives them advice on where to hide out. Dally is a character who always seems to be doing the wrong thing. He has been to jail numerous times for many different reasons. After Johnny dies, Dally decides to rob a store and pulls a gun so that the police will shoot him. The police shoot him down and Dally died before he even hit the ground. If Dally hadn’t died, some parts of the story could have changed, and some aspects of the story could have stayed the same.
Boo radley, Tom Robinson, and the Cunninghams are all examples of people who have suffered a form of prejudice in Maycomb county. The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” was written by Harper Lee and published in the year 1960. The story takes place in a town called maycomb county and was during the great depression. The novel is about social phenomenons and is also reflecting real life situations in the late 20th century. In maycomb county: racial, economic, and gender based prejudices are all factors that take place, which affects all citizens of all ages and isolates them from the community.
In what way can two people that have grown up with the same lifestyle be so different but at the same time so similar. It seems unrealistic. However, in S. E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, two characters with such characteristics exist. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are two greasers that at similar because they both place little value on their lives and have parents who don’t give them the attention they need. Despite the similarities these two have, Dally and Johnny have their own divergence from each other such as giving different advice and getting in trouble with the law. Thus, their lifestyle and way of living Jonny Cade and Dallas Winston have some unique differences and strong similarities.
Friendships are like peanut butter and jelly, they are great by themselves, but even better together. If every person had a friend just like them, life would be boring. A friend that is somewhat similar, but also somewhat different is just right. In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny and Dally share many similarities and differences.
People look up to others because they are so much like each other that they feel connected, or that they are so different that they aspire to be like them. Sometimes you can have someone who looks up to the other that is both, different and the same as them. This is the case for Johnny and Dally in the Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton. They both have parents who do not care about them and they both do not value life. Johnny is more law-abiding than Dally and when Johnny died, he died a hero, unlike Dally. Johnny and Dally share differences and similarities that make them such unique characters.
Even the younger boys like Soda and Pony are much more sensitive in nature but still eager to prove themselves in the “rumble” towards the end of the novel. Physical combat seems to carry weight similar to ancient rites of passage, you were only considered a man if you could best another in a trial by arms or “lick” someone as the boys of the 1960’s would say. This is an important distinction to notice and deserves further inspection. Even with the loss of their biological parents to death, alcoholism, marital strife or pure apathy, these boys take care of one another with each older generation raising the younger, Dally even comments to Johnny about the nature of their relationship when he inquires about whether his parents cared about his well-being, “’My parents… did they ask about me?’ ‘No,’ snapped Dally, they didn’t. Blast it, Johnny, what do they matter? 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. That don’t bother me none.’” (Outsiders 88). Whether Dally is completely aware of the role he plays in Johnny’s life is unclear but it adds all the more weight to the revelation of Johnny’s death; for Dally, this is losing a son. There is a solid argument to make that, in spite of their personal hardships, these boys are far more adjusted to masculinity than their counterparts the “Socs” who seem to be aimless in their pursuit of
Ponyboy said he would be dead if he didn't have the gang members. Johnny is the youngest in the gang. He was jumped by Socs and was seriously injured that he almost died. He had psychology impact on the Socs, he would shiver and be frighten whenever he sees a Soc. On the day he left with Ponyboy, they met a group of Socs. Since the Soc called Bob almost drowned Ponyboy to death, he killed Bob. Johnny admired Dally a lot. He wishes Dally could be proud of him for even just once. He wanted to be as tough and cool as Dally but he never succeeds. Johnny was kicked out of school and that was how Ponyboy thought he wasn't clever. Sometimes Johnny understood things better than Ponyboy in the book which was called Gone with the Wind. Johnny had the interest and talent in reading books but no one in the gang except Ponyboy was good enough to talk about these. He wasn't really close with Ponyboy before they ran away together so they didn't have a talk. Johnny also loved to watch sunsets and sunrises but no one in the gang could have spared time to watch or even talk about this. All Johnny couldn't express mad him alienated from the gang members. The only one he was close to was Dally. Dally cared for his all time and would risk his life for whatever happens on Johnny. Such as lending a gun or killing a Soc. Dally wouldn't hesitate as long as it was for