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Compare And Contrast Essay On The Outsiders

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How can two individuals be so different yet be so comparable? In S.E Hinton’s novel, “The Outsiders”, she creates two characters who grow up in similar lives, but have complete opposite perspectives on the world. Dally Winston and Johnny Cade are similar because they both have neglective and abusive parents making them place little value on their lives. Yet, despite their similarities, Dally and Johnny have distinct personalities and different advice they give Ponyboy. Dally Winston and Johnny Cade, two greasers with many differences and more similarities than you may expect. Dally and Johnny have similar home lives with parents that are abusive and pay little attention to them. For example, Dally’s parents do not care about him and most of the time they do not even know if he is causing trouble or alive. Dally states that “‘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 no parents to give him the proper …show more content…

Dally is always getting into trouble breaking laws and going to jail. Dally’s proud of his police record and yet every time he makes one wrong move the fuzz could kill him. That day came where he got in so much trouble he had nowhere to run. Ponyboy states “I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted”(154). Dally is always a proud hoodlum and he is always making an inconvenience for everyone. Likewise, Johnny also did not want to live his life to the fullest. Johnny wanting to die is because he had nobody to love him at home except for Dally and the gang. He says “‘I can’t take much more’... ‘I’ll kill myself or something”’(47). Johnny says this because his life at home is so terrible that he would rather die than live another day. With all of the similarities Dally and Johnny share, they both have a different personalities and a different outlook on

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Therefore dally and johnny have some similarities and huge amount of differences. Dally is a mean, aggressive, tough person. He has a record a mile long. He can’t do anything legal, so when he wants to go to the drive in everyone with him has to sneak in. He loves picking fights with people and loves to scare little kids.

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Dally helped the gang throughout the book and in doing so he was

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Who is the biggest hero? From the outsiders Dallas Winston, aka (dally). The newspapers made him a hero for saving johnny in the fire at the old church we’re they were recently hanging out at. Dallas Winston (dally) rescues johnny. According to two-bit johnny and Dallas were always heroes and dally does not want to be a hero, Or known as one, but most definite he doesn’t wanna be called one that 's for sure.

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They are similar because throughout both Ponyboy and Johnny are the main characters from the greaser gang until they kill bob then the rest of the greaser gang becomes more of the main characters. There are many different similarities between the book and movie “The Outsiders”, but there are also a lot of comparisons between the two.

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Toward the end of the book and the end of his life he because insensitive toward his parents. In the book he was in the hospital, his parents were there to see him but he would not let them in. This is shown on page (122 by Hinton) “Johnny," she said quietly, "your mother's here to see you. "Johnny opened his eyes. At first, they were wide with surprise, then they darkened.

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On the other side, Dally held a knife to a nurse’s throat when Johnny was in the hospital, along with suicide after he died, from his guilt, we can assume. In summary, both unfortunately were defined by their situations: peer pressure, single-parent households, racism, low incomes, getting shunted around the education system, precarious housing. In the words of Segun “We were all just living up to our own stereotypes.

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Dally V. Johnny How can people that come from the same area be so different and similar at the same time. How can it someone that enjoys fights, cold-blooded, rude, and mean, but have so much in common with someone that is nice, kind and law following greaser there is. It doesn’t seem possible. However S.E. Hinton 's novel The Outsiders, Johnny and Dally are those characters. Dally Winston and Johnny Cade are similar because their parents abuse them, and they both care for each other, yet they are different because they gave Ponyboy completely different advice, and they dead differently as well.

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We do not realize how much someone else can affect our own life, and Ponyboy is about to find out. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is a coming-of-age novel where the 13 year old main character Ponyboy Curtis runs away with his best friend Johnny. Ponyboy experiences a lot of death and impermanence in this story. From his parents, to his enemies, to his best friends. He is forced to let all these people go.

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He loves Johnny because he got Johnny out of trouble,he saved him from a burning church,and Dally killed himself because Johnny died. Johnny killed Bob because one of his friends was drowning Ponyboy. They had to find a place to hide so they had to ask someone to help them. Dally gave them his gun and his money to help them even though it could mean jail for him.(Chapter 4) This purely means that he loves Johnny because it means that he could go to jail.

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Do you think Mark and Dally have things in common? Well when people think about Mark and Dally they seem like complete opposites. One reason is maybe because they are in two different books, or because they might just have two different names but they do have some similarities. One might be how they both had to deal with going to jail and how they will never be comfortable in their own skin. Now let's explain the similarities and differences between the characters.

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S.E Hinton wrote the famous coming-of-age novel The Outsiders in which the perspective character Ponyboy Curtis lives in a world where there are greasers and socs. Ponyboy and the gang are like brothers, one night Johnny and Ponyboy get into some trouble with the socs. This interaction changed all of the gang members.. Dallas Winston was a juvenile delinquent who was very proud of his body length long criminal record. Often bragged about his records and how he was good at fighting and getting into trouble.

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Dally is not strong mentally (when he couldn’t let Johnny go), he really does not do good deeds, and he does not care about any other people than only Johnny, and he’s rude to others and bad at using words. A quotation that supports my statement is, “What for? Get back in here before I beat your head in.” (p.90) This quotation supports my statement because Dally said this to Ponyboy when he hopped off the car and said to see what the deal is when he saw the old church on fire, it proves that Dally does not care about other stuff that does not involve him and that he’s rude to others and using

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A book and a movie can be both the same and different. In The Outsiders there are many similarities and differences with the book and movie. They were the same because Johnny kills a man, they cut their, there was the movie scene, and Johnny and Ponyboy went to the church. Some of the differences is when Darry slaps Ponyboy but in the movie he pushes him, Johnny doesn't bring a lot of food in the book but does in the movie he does, when Johnny killed the man it was more described but it wasn't in the movie, and Johnny says he wants to kill himself in the movie. In The Outsiders one of the themes is “friendship”

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At the beginning of the novel, Johnny lacked confidence and self-esteem. At times he thought about attempting suicide. S.E. Hinton describes Johnny as, “A little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and lost his crowd of strangers” (11). This is because Johnny 's parents are abusive: his mother verbally and his father

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(1.48) After Johnny died, Dally makes an enormous sacrifice that took away his life. He loved Johnny so much that he couldn't take the fact he was gone. Dally was known to be the most cold-blooded member of the gang but after Johnny's death, he was the one who showed the most affection. Dally wouldn’t have been shot if he didn’t love Johnny so much, and sacrificed himself.

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