Dallas Winston
A hero is someone who puts others before themselves and looks past the small things which Dallas Winston from The Outsiders did because he helped others in need, looked past his dislikes, and cared for his gang. He acted tuff and did bad things but really he did have a soft spot.
Dally helped others when they needed it. The ways he did help people made it look like he was a bad guy, but really he wasn't. When Johnny and Ponyboy needed help they went right to him because they knew he would know what to do, and when they got there Dally immediately gave them a place to go, a loaded heater, and 50 dollars. Dallas also gave Ponyboy a dry shirt to wear because he was wet and cold. Then after a week he came back and took them to eat which shows that he cares because he could have just left them out there alone.
Dallas Winston looked past his dislikes many times. He said in the beginning that he doesn't like kids however he still helped Ponyboy and Johnny get the kids out of the church when it was on fire, which shows
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Above all he cared for Johnny the most because he was the “gang's pet”, Dally cared about Johnny so much that when Johnny died Dally came up with a plan to die too. Another way Dally cared for the gang is that when Johnny and Ponyboy was at the Church reading Gone With The Wind Johnny said that the Southern boys reminded him of Dally because on night the fuzz came because Two-bit broke the windows at the school but Dally took the blame without batting an eye when he could have let Two-bit get in trouble. Dally even broke out of the hospital to help fight in the rumble. Some may say that Dallas didn't do anything and it was Johnny who was the hero although if Dally didn't help Johnny and Ponyboy they would have went straight to the police and most likely would have been put in jail which would have caused them to not be the same soft people they