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Winston's Turbulent Life In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

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Dallas Winston’s Turbulent Life When people are born, they are born into the world without any bias towards others. Whether they are murderers, saints, or an everyday people; their experiences determine the kind of person they will become in the future. For Dallas Winston, one of the main characters from the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, his experiences caused him to have a Dally’s childhood experiences shaped the person he became in many ways. One of the main experiences from his childhood was the way his parents treated him. According to the book, on page seventy-five, Dally said, “Shoot my old man don’t give a hang whether I’m, in jail or dead or in a car wreck or drunk in the Gutter. That don’t bother me no more.” Based on this quote, when Dally was younger, he never felt loved by his parents. Dally’s parents are the main reason Dally became the person he was. Instead of being good parents, they constantly neglected Dally. They let him hang around gangs eventually leading to him going to jail. …show more content…

On page seventy-six, while talking to Johnny, Dally says,“ … you get hardened in jail. I don’t want that to happen to you. Like it happened to me.” That quote shows that while in jail Dally lost the sense of how to behave ’normally’. An example of this is after Dally got out of jail. After he had gotten out he got arrested again, he lied, cheated, stole, got drunk, and even jumped little kids. Dally simply showed no sympathy towards others, except for his friend

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He didn’t care, after finding out that johnny has died he goes crazy and robs a store. As he is running out he gets shot in his lower abdomen but still runs off. He calls Pony, Steve, Two-bit, Darry, and Soda, when they get to the vacant lot where he was surrounded by policemen, he pulled out an unloaded gun, he wanted to die that 's why he did it, he was gunned down by the police. Dally got what he wanted and dying was what he wanted after Johnny died, he died a hoodlum… ‘“Dally didn 't die a hero, he died violent, violent, and desperate. Like we knew he

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You don’t know what a few months in jail can do to you. Oh, blast it, Johnny” (Hinton, 1995, 89-90). This shows that Dally, realizing that he said something that hurt Johnny. He tells him that he doesn’t want Johnny to go to jail and become cold and mean like he is. This is because he cares about Johnny.

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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.”

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In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, Dallas “Dally” Winston is a defiant character, especially when it comes to authority. For example, when Ponyboy first describes Dally, he proceeds as so: “He [Dally] had been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks and jumped small kids” (11). Here, the fact that Ponyboy knows this makes it seem like Dally is not that obscure about the fact that he likes to defy authority, as he does illegal activities, including underage drinking, stealing, and attacking small kids. Another example are Ponyboy’s thoughts of what Dally would do to the reporters after they portrayed him as a hero and not a villain in their article about how Ponyboy, Johnny and Dallas saved the children

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In fact, he went around trying to break rules. “Dally hated to do things the legal way. He liked to show that he didn't care whether there was a law or not. He went around trying to break laws“ (pg 20). Dally likes to show that he can’t be changed by authority and wanted to show it by breaking laws and not caring for anyone or anything.

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In the book “The Outsiders” two of our main character’s died because of bad parenting. There are a lot of examples of bad parenting in “The Outsiders”. If parents would have either listen or not abused their child some of our characters might still be alive. However, bad parenting can also an absence of limits on children , like one of the character in the novel Bob.

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Helpful because he helped Johnny and Pony get out of town. He is a troublemaker because he asked for Two-Bit’s switchblade to get out of the hospital to fight. First, Dally is brave. He is brave because when the

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Why couldn’t he have been like every other kid? Why couldn’t he have done something proactive with his life? He made his own decisions and he was the one who got himself into this situation. The question was, why? Now, two weeks later, Dally had been sitting in a jail cell with his fists balled up, filled with nothing but pure anger.

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‘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.’ ” (Chapter 9, Page 149) This quote shows how Dally was so dumbfounded and heartbroken that after one of his best friends had died, he robbed the store and got shot by the police for bearing an unloaded

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As quoted in the book, the character of Dallas Winston, also known as Dally, was selfish. "He was dangerous. Dally didn't give a Yankee dime about anyone but himself, and he was cold and hard and mean. (89-90) But alas, that is only a single example.

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Love - an intense feeling of deep affection. Love is an emotion shown in many romantic or family relationships as well as friendships. Love is shown frequently throughout the entirety of the book The Outsiders. For example, Dally is an extremely aggressive and audacious person, but he also shows immense love towards Johnny. Sodapop is a fun-loving, carefree high-school dropout, but he is understanding and shows love to both of his brothers by seeing both sides of an argument.

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He seems to have no emotions, and as it said on page , Dally can take any amount of punishment. “ Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten. He was tougher than the rest of us……..” (Hinton, 10) . “He had quite a reputation.

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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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If Dally used justice he would have reported Two-bit. “Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things that you want to learn”-The Outsiders. Another thing that proves my point is that they learned all this stuff on the streets and they know that Johnny killed Bob, so Dally is telling the cops they went to Texas for Johnny and Ponyboy. He is not having justice he is being

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The first time we see this is after Johnny and Ponyboy arrive fresh from the murder to seek Dally’s help. He gives them dry clothes, a loaded gun, fifty dollars, and tells them a location to hide in. He gave them the essentials they need even though he could have gone to jail. Darry would have even beat up Dally to death for helping them escape town and giving them a gun and money. According to Ponyboy, “...he [Dally] got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids—he did everything.”

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