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Character Analysis: The Outsider

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Outsider- a person who does not belong to a particular group I think that Dally is an outsider, but I also think that he is a brave and helpful person but he also can be a troublemaker. The Outsiders is a book about a group of greasers who are like hoods. Two of the greasers Johnny and Ponyboy get into trouble and that leads into more problems along the way. It shows how a group of friends who are different in ways are still the same and how friends stick up for each other when they need it. Dally is brave because he saved Johnny. Helpful because he helped Johnny and Pony get out of town. He is a troublemaker because he asked for Two-Bit’s switchblade to get out of the hospital to fight. First, Dally is brave. He is brave because when the
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In an almost fatherly role, he never hesitates to help them when they need it, even if it means that it could result in very harsh consequences. Start a new paragraph here. Dally is a hero because he is selfless. When two gang members, Ponyboy and Johnny, tell Dally, a fellow greaser, about Johnny killing Bob, a Socs in a rival gang, and how they needed help. Dally does not even question them and helps them out.

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Furthermore, Dally shows that he is willing to help the group no matter what when, at the rumble, he helps to pull the Soc that is kicking Ponyboy off of him. When Dally gave Ponyboy and Johnny a gun and some money he was helping them even though he could be arrested for assisting in a murder. Continuing on, even though it was extremely dangerous, Dally risked getting seriously injured or even killed to dart into the burning church to save Johnny. Finally, Dally attacks a Soc, risking being attacked himself from behind to save

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Dally appears tough on the outside, but he is really gallant and compassionate. To begin, Dally seems tough on the outside, as described by Ponyboy. At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy describes each of the members of the gang. When Pony gets to Dally he talks about how Dally is more wild and more like hoods.

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In the story “The Outsiders” Dally is the biggest hero because he is selfless, caring, and strong. First, Dally is a hero because he is selfless. In the story, when Ponyboy comes to in the ambulance he says “Dallas hit me. How come?”

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Dallas Winston, the “Outsider” Ponyboy and his gang are all considered “Outsiders” but there is one greaser from their gang that stands out the most with the title of “Outsider”. Dallas Winston is a hoodlum from New York who had been arrested many times since he was 10 years old. His parents weren’t around when he was growing up, and this really affected his life because he didn’t have anyone to tell him what to do. The author chose this title for the book because she wanted to give an immediate example of how the greasers were treated back then. In the novel The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, there are many characters that could be considered “Outsiders”; but Dally is the biggest “Outsider” in the story.

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According to the book, on page seventy-five, Dally said, “Shoot my old man don’t give a hang whether I’m, in jail or dead or in a car wreck or drunk in the Gutter. That don’t bother me no more.” Based on this quote, when Dally was younger, he never felt loved by his parents. Dally’s parents are the main reason Dally became the person he was. Instead of being good parents, they constantly neglected Dally.

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Even though he has done some really bad things, he still has good inside of him. Dally is a great example of how no matter what your background is you can still commit an act of heroism. The best example is when during the fire in the church, a falling timber hits Johnny and Dally runs in to save him. One of the teachers of the kids that Ponyboy and Johnny saved, describes Dally’s action like this. “He burned one arm pretty badly… trying to drag the other kid out the window.”

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Dally's relationship with Johnny made the plot of the book progress. When Ponyboy and Johnny go to find Dally in chapter 4 he gives them a gun and some money. This is one of the very few unselfish acts Dally commits in the novel, aside from that there is another example when dally goes into the blazing church. "What for?" Dally sounded irritated. "Get back in here before I beat your head in”(77).

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He seems to have no emotions, and as it said on page , Dally can take any amount of punishment. “ Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten. He was tougher than the rest of us……..” (Hinton, 10) . “He had quite a reputation.

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