“The Outsiders”, by S.E Hinton is the story of Ponyboy Curtis and the struggles he faces as a “Greaser”. Ponyboy lives on the east side of town with his older brothers, Darry and Sodapop. After their parents died, the oldest Curtis brother, Darry becomes the guardian of his younger brothers. Other characters that come to play as the story progresses are, Steve, Two-Bit, Johnny, and Dallas, who are also all greasers. The greasers have a hateful feud going on with the “Socs”, the upper class socialite teenagers who jump greasers for fun. When Johnny and Ponyboy have a run in with a group of Socs that beat Johnny up before, they end up killing the leader of the Socs, Bob. Now on the run, the duo go to a friend of theirs who’s had more than his …show more content…
Dallas, also known as Dally helps them run away to a small abandoned church a few towns over. After many trials, Dally helps and ultimately saves in a way, both Ponyboy and Johnny. Dallas Winston is the hero of “The Outsiders.” Dallas Winston had a rough life from the start, his parents threw him out of the house at a young age and never cared about him. Though he would never show it, this deeply hurt Dally thus making him into the hardened character S.E Hinton shows us. After living on the streets for a good portion of his young life, Dally developed a strong “I don’t care about anything” attitude. “I was crazy, you know that kid, crazy for wantin’ Johnny to stay outa trouble, for not wantin’ him to get hard. If he’d been like me, he’d never been in this mess. If he’d got smart like me he’d never have run into that church. That’s what you get for helpin’ people. Editorials in the paper and a lot of trouble… You’d better wise up, Pony … you get tough like me and you don’t get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothing can touch you… Hinton 147” Dally cared about Johnny and he didn’t want Johnny to end up like him. He didn’t want Johnny to become emotionally hardened because he cared about him too much for him to feel that way.Dally doesn’t
First of all, Dally says “‘... don’t die Johnny, please don’t die…’” and then he “suddenly bolted through the door and down the hall.” (149). This shows that the boys all have a very close relationship with each other. They would do anything for each other and are devastated when one dies. Secondly, Ponyboy asks “‘You really killed him [Bob], huh, Johnny?’” (57). This demonstrates that the boys would do anything for each other. Johnny killed Bob in order to save Ponyboy, which really shows how strong of a relationship they have. In conclusion, the power of friendship is shown throughout the book when the boys had a few encounters in which their friendship and how strong it really is was
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Published 1967 Published by: Puffin Books Genre: fiction The book The Outsiders is the realistic story about this between two very different groups in a town in the United States: the poor Greasers from the east side, and the Socs, whitch is what the greasers call the socials, the richer boys from the other side of the town. Ponyboy Curtis is the narrator of the story, a 14-year-old boy who lives with his two older brothers, Darry and Soda. He is a pretty good athlete and student, but is not treated the same as the richer students at his school. Ponyboy uses to have long hair that he greases back, a symbol of being in the outsider gang. He is unhappy with his situation, because Darry is too protective of him
A juvenile delinquent, Dally was put in jail when he was only ten years old. This probably is the outcome of him having a lack of a guardian when he was a youth. In addition, while on Jay Mountain, Johnny asks Dally whether his parents wanted to know about him. Dally replies saying “‘... They didn’t. Blast it Johnny, what do they matter? Shoot my old man don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter. That don’t bother me none’”(88). This is the only time Dally mentions his father in the novel and his tone suggests his disdain. Dally’s insolent behavior has to be because of his inadequate parents. Likewise, Johnny is also a victim of bad parenting due to his abusive mother and father. In The Outsiders the narrator, Ponyboy, describes Johnny’s personality and family atmosphere in the exposition. Ponyboy states about Johnny: “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house”(12). Pony’s statement shows how Johnny Cade has a difficult life at him and so he relies on the Greasers for family. This evidence leads to the conclusion that Johnny and Dally both have neglectful parents causing them to rely on their gang for family
...inks he is more important than anything else and will not even think about going out of his way to do anything nice for anyone or anything. Both Johnny and Dally’s similarities and differences balance each other out.
Who is the TRUE hero of The Outsiders? To most people, this book has many heroes that are all held in our hearts. Including Dallas, Darry, PonyBoy, and even Two-bit. But none can come close to our hero, the REAL hero, Johnny Cade. He seems to be the strength in the group, takes all the abuse and continues to stand up, and shows a bravery that is hard to find anywhere else.
This statement definitely applies to Dallas Winston when he, Ponyboy and Johnny are in Windrixville and the church has caught fire. Dally grew up in New York City. He ran away from home at a young age and obtained a criminal record at the age of ten. By his teenage years, he had developed a way to survive. He does not care about anybody, except for himself and Johnny, a younger member of the gang. He has a soft spot for Johnny, probably because he sees a lot of himself through Johnny. Johnny’s parents are abusive, and sometimes they are so drunk that they do not even recognize him. Dallas is one of the only people who knows how Johnny feels, because before running away from home, he was also in this situation. However, Johnny is quiet and kind. When Dally was young, these were some of the qualities that he lacked. They are close friends because they each have qualities that are absent in the other’s personality. Johnny is the last thing that Dallas still loves and cares about. Without Johnny, Dallas would only have hate left inside of him. After Johnny kills a Soc in self defense, he and Ponyboy are sent by Dally to an abandoned church in Windrixville, in order to hide from the police. When Dallas comes to take them back home, they stop at Dairy Queen to eat lunch. Passing by the church in which Johnny and Ponyboy spent almost a week, they see that it has caught on fire, probably because they forgot to
Mrs. Hinton’s The Outsiders was a delight to read. While I might have enjoyed it, I must disagree with who the author has chosen to base her book on and here’s why. While Hinton chose to write about a young man doomed to repeat his mistake multiple times until eventually, he sees the error of his ways. We see in the beginning Ponyboy admits that he’s not to walk alone merely because the Soc (Socials) will jump any Greaser this, of course, does not deter Ponyboy as he makes this same blunder throughout the book. Eventually, causing tension among his family and the death of three people. I do believe Hinton had two good choices there is Johnny Cage an abused teen and Dallas “Dally” Winston a hardened criminal.
The author of the book is S.E. Hinton the tilttle is The Outsiders. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. ... Read an in-depth analysis of Ponyboy Curtis. Darrel Curtis - Ponyboy's oldest brother. Darrel, known as “Darry,” is a twenty-year-old greaser who is raising Ponyboy because their parents have died in a car crash. Darry is a tough guy
The book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, follows a horrific part of the life of a boy named Ponyboy Curtis. He is what you might call a Greaser, and has had a rough go at it in his life compared to others. It is difficult, but Ponyboy somehow manages to be himself and has the tenacity to stick through it all. He is in a gang with his friends and family and they are loyal to one another no matter what. A rival gang from the Socs crowd, a richer, more refined group, send him and his pals into a whirlwind of trouble and hurt. This book shows on multiple occasions that perseverance is necessary to get through life .
The Outsiders is a novel by S.E Hinton, that follows a young boy named Ponyboy who grows up in a gang. Johnny, Sodapop and Darry help him find how he fits into the world and without them he would have a hard time finding his own identity. Without having a close group of friends he would have a tough way of life, especially with the Socs. Being in a group that you associate with, that have different values to yourself can lead you to disregard your own ethics and do things you wouldn’t normally do, but at the same time this can assist and reinforce your own values…
In The Outsiders, the Socs and Greasers are in a constant turf war between the East and West side of town, and this causes lots of verbal and physical altercations. Randy an emotionally distraught Soc pointed out, “You can't win, even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before--- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing.” Randy is trying to say that no matter how hard they try no matter how bad someone gets beat it will still be the same after the fight as before the fight. Another example of violence within the gang was Dallas Winston, “Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age often. He was tougher than the rest of us--- tougher, colder, meaner...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he Wanted.” Even though Dally was one tough guy, after so much exposure to violence and fighting, there came a breaking point for Dally where he could just not take it anymore. After Ponyboy walked home from the lot and a verbal argument began, “Darry wheeled around and slapped me so hard that it knocked me against the door...I turned and ran out the door and down the street as fast as I could.” When siblings fight, especially when it gets physical the consequences only get worse and
Dally did something to save one of his gang members too. It was Dally who pulled Johnny out from the burning church. Johnny would have died instantly if Dally did not get Johnny out of the church. When Dally was shot, Ponyboy remembered the things Dally had done for them.
Ponyboy and Cherry start to talk and realize they aren’t that different. On the way, however, they run into Bob and Randy, the girls' drunken boyfriends, and the girls agree to leave with them in order to stop a fight between the Socs and the greasers. Ponyboy then gets home late because of what happened at the drive-in. Dally is mad and starts yelling. Sick of constantly being watched and criticized by his brother, Ponyboy yells at him. The two brothers fight and Darry slaps Ponyboy across the face.
Johnny and Dally are both major characters in the novel “The Outsiders” by SE Hinton. “The Outsiders” is a novel about friendship, rivalry, stereotypes, trust and family relationships set in the 1960’s of America. SE Hinton. Describes how two gangs, the Socs and the Greasers get to know each other’s problems in an exciting and nail-biting storyline. Johnny and Dally are both very contrasting characters and each play a vital role in both the novel and Ponyboy’s life.
The Outsiders is about the life of a 14-year-old boy. The book tells the story of Ponyboy “Curtis” and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers, Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16, have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as they all behave themselves. The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, the poor side of town. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids."