The Outsiders have countless songs that can relate to the characters we meet. The book “The Outsiders” is a realistic fiction novel written by S.E. Hinton. These songs are, “Death Around the Corner” by 2pac for Johnny, “Don’t Cry” by Guns N’ Roses for Soda-pop, and “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” by The Animals for Dallas. To begin, “Death Around the Corner” is a song by 2pac that speaks about his paranoia with death, which can be associated with Johnny. First, the lyric “I see death around the corner, any day”. Trying to keep it together” can be associated with Johnny because he’s so on edge. One quote is “And Johnny now carried in his pocket a six-inch switchblade.” (Hinton, 34). This quote connects with the lyric because Johnny sees death everywhere and is trying to keep himself safe. Altogether, this song connects Johnny with the similar delusions. …show more content…
The lyric relating to Dally is “When things go wrong, I seem to go bad.” This is shown multiple times throughout the book, the biggest being Johnny’s death. With that being said, the quote “He ran out like the devil was after him”. He’s gonna blow up. He can’t take it.” (Hinton, 152) proves so. These sentences prove Dally's way of coping is to do irrational things. Overall, Dally can be connected with this song because of his