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The Characters In S. E. Hinton's The Outsider

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The characters that i like best in this book the outsiders was ponyboy, johnny and sodapop these characters were brave and showed love and affection to each other the boys stayed by each others sides the most and these three boys never really had any arguments ponyboy was the one who was scared the most and always got in arguments with darry his older brother and they never really had anything in common but ponyboy was always there for darry and all the other boys. Jonny was not apart of ponyboys family but darry,sodapop, ponyboy always treated jonny like their own brother and jonny was also scared and quit like ponyboy. Now soda pop was the good looking one out of the whole family sodapop and johnny were darry’s favorite sodapop was always a ladies man ponyboy said that sodapop looks like a movie star soda pop had long dark brown hair that always was pushed back with grease he had blue eyes and was very kind and gentle so was ponyboy but sodapop and darry were close but ponyboy was to but not as close as sodapop and Darry. …show more content…

Dally just was laid back sorta guy that always tries to act cool around the ladies and always got in arguments as well but Dally’s was himself around jonny that was dally’s best bud if anything happened to johnny Dally wouldn't want to

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“Running away won 't help.” Johnny was right. Ponyboy had people that loved and cared for him... they just didn 't know how to show it!” In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, proves that no matter what type of Social class you are; Greaser or Socs, family is most important and will help you get through the difficult parts in life.

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The love and support Dally had for Johnny were so vast that when he passed away he lost the idea of the purpose in life. Dally grew up with no family and had to guide himself in his own life without any support from the outside world. He was missing love and support and he felt that from the Johnny and the gang. All Dally ever wanted was to be with Johnny, and when Johnny dies his only option is to go up to heaven with him. As he puts himself into a position of suicide.

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his father clobbered him around a lot” (Hinton, 32). “Dally hated doing things the legal way. He liked to show he didn’t care if there was a law or not (Hinton, 20). Johnny and Dally are both members of the Greasers and have different reasons to be part of it. Johnny wants to escape his bad home life, and

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The character that I personally liked the best was Ponyboy because of how similar our personalities are. The character that I personally liked the least was Dally although, I did not dislike Dally I couldn't connect with the character due to him being seemingly irredeemable although, he did do some good throughout the story such as giving johnny and ponyboy supplies and a place to hide after johnny killed Bob and furthermore, he helped save Johnny from the burning church. In the end the Dally ended up breaking near the end of the story and got involved in a shootout Police after pointing an unloaded gun as a bluff after robbing a store because he could not handle the loss of johnny due to johnny being the only person he really cared about.

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But he did have a minor change, he began to expose a little of his warm-heartedness, after Johnny and Dally died, he didn’t appear much anymore in the story line, but the readers can picture him maturing every passing day but still kept his generous humor. The theme of The Outsiders is about adolescence—discovery, pain, loneliness since in this heart-rending novel, all of the characters suffered for 1. Johnny and Ponyboy had to hide away since Johnny killed Bob, 2. The class conflict between greasers and Socs, 3. Johnny’s and Dally’s death, 4.

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