Comparing Johnny And Dally In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

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

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

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.

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

Both Johnny and Dally are similar in the way that they both have a terrible home life. Johnny and Ponyboy are resting in the park when they accidentally fall asleep. Johnny wakes up Ponyboy at two in the morning and tells him to run home fast because Ponyboy’s brothers do care about him unlike Johnny’s parents. “‘I think I’ll stay all night out here.’ Johnny’s parents didn’t care if he came home

Dally Winston and Johnny Cade have a similarity of having abusive parents. For example, Dally’s parents do not pay attention to him at all. Dally is talking to Johnny about his father; “‘Shoot my old man don’t give a hang

Johnny and Dally come from a similar background of unloving parents. While The Outsiders novel does not tell the reader that Dally’s parents are not giving dally the attention that is needed, Dally does tell Ponyboy and 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 gutter’”(88). While Dally only talks about his family one time, it allows the reader to infer the kind of childhood Dally had. Johnny also had a poor childhood due to his parents, when the narrator describes why Johnny does not go home with Ponyboy, the narrator states that,“Johnny’s parents didn’t care if he came home or not”(49). Apart from the beatings his parents give him, they also did not care about his well being. But their abusive parents did give Johnny and Dally a similarity, but also shaped the two greasers’ behavior.

Nobody was ever going to jump him like that again. Not over his dead body…” (Hinton 34). When Johnny got jumped by the Socs, he became more aware of himself and his surroundings. Throughout this experience he has become a completely different and mature person. Later on in the book Johnny and Ponyboy are jumped by the same group of Socs and Johnny ended up accidentally killing one of them. In the process of leaving town and trying to get away with murder, Johnny died while saving children in a burning building. Everyone in the gang was affected by this, especially Dally. Dally was notorious for breaking laws, stealing, and acting rude towards everybody. Ponyboy described Dally like an emotionless rock that nobody could break. “Johnny was the only thing Dally ever loved. And now Johnny was gone. ‘So he finally broke.’ Two-Bit spoke everyone’s feelings. ‘So even Dallas has a breaking point’” (Hinton 152). When Johnny died, Dally’s personality changed. At this point in the book it is evident that Dally thought of Johnny less like a friend and more like a son. This could lead one to believe that Dally has become more mature and grew throughout the

One similarity between Dally and Johnny is their inability to place value in their lives. Through the duration of the story, Dally continually does things that put his life in danger, and does not seem to

Johnny and Dally have many similarities between each other. Johnny and Dally both have abusive parents that do not pay attention to them . Dally´s abusive parents don not care about Dally at all. In fact, Dally never mentions anything about his parents anything except on page 88 where he says, ”Shoot, my old man don't give a hang whether I am in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter.” Dally basically says that his dad does not care where he goes

Johnny and Dally both come from broken homes. Homes where they have abusive and neglectful parents. When they decided to leave their homes for a while, the only people they had were the greasers. Dally and Johnny were both hurt in the hospital and the only ones that was there was Pony, Sodapop and Darry. “Now there were three of us sitting in the room,waiting to hear how Dally and Johnny were” (100).

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

The author of The Outsiders S.E. Hinton wrote Johnny and Dally as complete opposites. Johnny is made out to be a quiet, timid sixteen year old boy who has a bad home life. And Dally is known as the outspoken leader that is tough as nails. Ponyboys relationship with Johnny is completely different than the relationship he has with Dally. Ponyboy loves and cares for Johnny’s wellbeing, and Johnny is someone Ponyboy can be open with.

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.

Dally and Johnny may seem very different, but they are actually a lot alike. For instance, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston both have abusive parents or parents who do not care about their children. Dally parents do not even care about him he could even be dead and they do not care. Dally starters, “‘Shoot,my old man don't give a hang weather I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck