In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the character Ponyboy’s opinion on the Socs changes throughout the book. When Ponyboy's parents passed, his older brother Darry took care of Ponyboy and Sods. They and a few other friends are all in a gang. They are also all greasers, which are like a lower class. The SOCS are the rich upper class.
Dally unexpectedly demonstrates bravery many times throughout the book. Initially, Ponyboy views Dally as tough and mean. However, Dally frequently displays his selflessness by helping his fellow gang members, even though the consequences for him could be very detrimental. In doing so, he establishes himself as a father figure, someone who will look out for the others, no matter what. His heroism creates trust between the boys and establishes a ‘family’ within the gang, which each of them is sadly missing in one way or another.
Ponyboy feels that both gangs are actually very similar, but no one is able to accept each other for who they are so they judge each other on clothing, hair, smell, and even just the way they talk. The greasers live on the east side of Oklahoma. Their lifestyle is different because the greasers live outside of the town and don't have as much money
“I went on walking home, thinking about the movie, and then suddenly wishing I had some company. Greasers can’t walk alone much or they’ll get jumped” (S.E. Hinton 2). Thus resulting that Ponyboy is left unsupervised by Darry, when Darry could have have came and picked him up. For the most part Darry knows what could happen to Ponyboy but dosen’t bother to even go out and look for him. “Our front door is unlocked incase one of the boys is hacked off at his parents and needs a place to stay” (S.E. Hinton 105).
February 26, 1906, Upton Sinclair published his novel titled “The Jungle”, which informed its readers about the unsanitary practices and health violations that occurred in the meatpacking industry in America. Due to the information that Americans were receiving about what went into their packaged meat, citizens demanded that something must change. The FDA, or Food and Drug Administration, was almost a direct result of Upton’s novel. They made sure that the events going on in the factories would not continue, so the FDA passed various laws and regulations regarding the meatpacking industry.
After entering the Nightly Double Dally sees two girls and immediately Ponyboy knew by the expression on his face he was up to something, “I had a sick feeling that Dally was up to his usual tricks, and I was right. He started talking, loud enough for the two girls to hear. He started out bad and got worse. Dallas could talk awful dirty if he wanted to and I guess he wanted to then.” [20] Ponyboy does not approve of Dallas’s demeanor, and knew right away that Dally was up to no good.
Ponyboy was known for drawing Dallas when he was in a dangerous mood because he could capture his personality more. Dally’s past included going to jail, being drunk, he's lied, he's cheated, he stole, rolled drunks, jumped small children, and his way of escaping the hospital was by holding a knife to a nurse’s throat. He was known for being the dangerous one, the tough guy who nobody stood up to, but all this encouraged Ponyboy to write about him. However Dally had more to him than his threatening facade, he was caring and had a heart for the
In the novel, the Outsiders, S.E Hinton portrays all characters except of Dally with very straightforward personalities because, as the book ends, the readers are able to see the unexpected. Dally’s tough and fearless personality appeared more like heroic and emotional as we conclude the novel. Besides, we readers we’d always pictured Dally like any other hoodlum but as we see him face real-life situations and his gestures towards them, we are genuinely taken away by his new character. We start to realize, how all this while it was Dally’s life experience that seemed to have chosen the path for him, which is why the person inside of him never had the chance.
The largest choice in The Outsiders was slapping ponyboy; Darry slapped him, because he was mad at Pony for falling asleep in the lot Because of this, Ponyboy ran away, and got jumped by some socs who were Cherry and Marcia’s friends. This led to bob being killed by Johnny, hiding in the church, the church burning down, and eventually Johnny and Dally’s death. Almost the entire plot was set in motion by this very act. Because of this, Ponyboy became angry, and was very (emotionally and physically) hurt: near the end, and almost hardened like Dally.
Dally or Dallas Winston was a seventeen year old. He was the toughest and most dangerous member of the gang as a result of his time spent in New York. He had a tough childhood, and was arrested at the age of 10. He identifies with Johnny because of how both of their parents treated them. Johnny idolises him, and Johnny is the only one who Dally loves, according to Ponyboy.
He deals with multiple hardships, but is always surrounded by his friends, his gang. The character Dallas (Dally) Winston, one of the most prominent gang members, reinforces the theme that friendship leaves a permanent impact on life. Dally’s “tough” and “dangerous” characterization is shown to change overtime due to his relationship with the gang. When Ponyboy introduces Dally, he
In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton the two characters Dally and Johnny both have significant differences and similarities. Both of their lives are the same and very different. Dally and Johnny are both similar because they are both gallant and they both care about each other a lot. They are different because they give Ponyboy two different types of advice and Johnny is sensitive and Dally is tough,cold,and mean. Therefore,Dally and Johnny both have significant differences and similarities.
Ponyboy, a greaser, was one of the young boys that was matured throughout the book because of his hardships. Ponyboy 's relationship with his older brothers, Darry and Sodapop, is a key factor in how Ponyboy matured throughout the book. An example of Ponyboy almost maturing from the influence of Darry and Sodapop, is when their parents were killed in a car crash. When their Parents died it caused them to get closer and look out for eachother more (#3).
In the book, Outsiders, I noticed the most character development in Ponyboy Curtis. Although he didn’t realize many things until the end of the book, I think once everything registered within himself, he took everything that had happened to him in the past couple weeks as a lesson. One thing that Ponyboy finally grasped was that his oldest brother Darry actually cared for him. At first Ponyboy had always thought that Darry didn’t like him and that Darry would rather him be gone. However, after his friends repeatedly reassured Ponyboy that his older brother had been hard on him because he really loved and cared about him, Ponyboy slowly started to realize that, even though the two still fought a bit.
Dally A rock-hard hood who never backs down from any challenge. Dally is a character in the book “Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton. The Outsiders is a book where a ragtag group of greasers band together and overcome victories, tragedies, and above all, build an even stronger bond of brotherhood. This story begins in the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Ponyboy(our main character) is walking home from the movies and gets ambushed by a large group of Socs(Sociables-the “popular/rich” clique).
