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Johnny And Dally Character Analysis

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Dally, a record with the police a mile long and Johnny, no record with the police at all, you would think they would be very different but that are also very alike. Johnny and Dally are both the same in a way for example, they both have abusive and neglectful parents. “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house”(12). Johnny’s dad abuses him and his mom ignores him. Dally’s parents neglect 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. That don’t bother me none”(88). His parents do not care enough for him. Johnny and Dally’s parents do not have the parental skills to raise a child. This is a difference between Johnny and Dally. …show more content…

Dally cares for Johnny in a way. Dally says “You get hardened in jail. I don’t want it to happen to you like it happened to me“(90). Johnny wants to stay with Dally. ”Johnny worshiped the ground Dally walked on”(60). Dally protects Johnny because he cares for him. This is a similarity between two very opposite type of people. Johnny and Dally also have many differences, for example, Johnny and Dally give different advice to Ponyboy in the novel. Dally is a tough guy and does not get hurt. He tells pony to “get tough like me and you don’t get hurt”(147). Dally thinks when you are tough you can not get hurt. However Johnny wants ponyboy to stay innocent. “Stay gold ponyboy. Stay gold”(148). Stay gold means stay innocent or stay the way you are. Johnny does not want Ponyboy to become tough like Dally because he sees no good in the

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Before Johnny was going he gave Ponyboy his book and left a note that was too late to be discovered. The note said “Stay Gold Ponyboy, Stay Gold!” Meaning stay pure and live life to the fullest, Dally is more of the opposite. The note also said to show Dally the sunset to make him not as mean and to care more about the world and to be more kind. Johnny didn’t know Dally would suicide because of him.

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The outcome that came from this disastrous happening was shocking to the whole greaser gang. After a dew days in the hospital Johnny dies saying,” Stay gold Ponyboy, stay gold.” (Page 126) If the church wasn’t burning then Johnny wouldn't have died. Johnny’s death was a great impact on Dally.

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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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I had to, they were drowning you Pony”, he states the night Pony and him run away. Johnny thinks of others before himself. That is his loving and caring personality. ”Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold were the last words of his life. Johnny is loyal and cares about his friends deeply.

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Which Johnny basically “worshipped” Dally. One example says, “Leave her alone Dally!” and Dally responded “huh” as he was caught off guard by it, which isn’t a surprise because Dally was Johnny’s hero. This is showing acts of being a hero by Johnny sticking up to even his best friend, to be a hero. By doing this he earned respect, and gained new friends.

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This means that he was committing crimes at a young age, and it affects his older self now. Dally does not want Johnny and Ponyboy to become like him, and he wants them to preserve their innocence. Also in The Outsiders, Johnny had a rough childhood, making him lose his innocence when at a young age like Dally. Johnny had many hardships that contributed to his loss of innocence, including his abusive parents, and when the Socs almost beat him to death. Hinton writes, “Johnny was high-strung anyway, a nervous wreck from getting belted every time he turned around and from hearing his parents fight all the time.living in those conditions might have turned someone else rebellious and bitter; it was killing Johnny.”

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“Dally’ll get us outta here”. Dally is a good friend because he gave them what they needed and a place they can hide in. Another strength is his love for Johnny. I know that because his friends say that about him. This

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Unlike Ponyboy and Johnny, Dally's innocence was lost long before the events of the novel. He has already experienced the brutality of life and has become desensitized to the world's hardships. However, through his interactions with Ponyboy and Johnny, Dally develops a protective and caring side, which indicates a glimmer of innocence. As Dally tries to save Johnny from the burning church, he exclaims, "Ponyboy, I ain't gonna let you get hurt... I ain't gonna let them hurt you" (Hinton, 92).

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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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