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Synopsis Of The Book 'The Outsiders' By S. E. Hinton

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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

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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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A boy that was disliked by his parents, he was only sixteen and he was in a pretty rough gang. They got into trouble, but not so much him, his name was Johnny. Johnny is brave, he is kind to others, and he is nervous of the world. The author of Outsiders was S.E. Hinton. Johnny was the pet of their gang and was an important person to the rest of the gang.

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The author really proves a point on Dally’s personality and who he really cares about in the movie. “Ponyboy” says Dally after he was shot like 13 times like everywhere as everyone around Dally is screaming with sadness and terror. I don’t think that this was in the book but it helps us understand that he cared about

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The characters thought that Dally was just really angry at the world, that his robbing of the bank was him attempting to blow off steam, and that his consequential death was all a result of his bad decisions. In reality, Dally had just been told about Johnny's death, and he was heartbroken. The text shows this happening when it says, “Damnit, Johnny…’ he begged, slamming one fist against the wall, hammering it to make it obey his will. ‘Oh, damnit, Johnny, don’t die, please don’t die…’ He suddenly bolted through the door and down the hall”(Hinton 149).

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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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The fact that he even says that he may kill himself, shows that he has lost so much confidence due to the lack of care he is receiving at home that he is beginning to feel worthless. In addition, after Dally meets up with Johnny and Ponyboy and gives Ponyboy the letter that

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“When [Ponyboy] stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, [he] had only two things on [his] mind: Paul Newman and a ride home…” (Hinton 180). The author, S. E. Hinton, begins and ends “The Outsiders”, with this single sentence to show how the character, Ponyboy, had developed and matured throughout the events that occurred during the story. Ponyboy faces many types of conflict throughout the story, such as nature vs. self, person vs. society, and person vs. person. Although he struggled against his worries he had also overcome them.

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