Loneliness In The Outsiders

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The last picture relates to The Outsiders in a sense of loneliness and not being able to understand the people around you. Having to be yourself without being able to rely on others to be able to connect with your opinions and actions. Like Ponyboy, he enjoys sunsets, poetry, and books, but he should enjoy cars, fights, and leather jackets because that is what he stereotyped as. Which is shown on page 77, “Nothing Gold Can Stay. I was remembering a poem I read once.” He reads poetry and is smart, but he has a dropout brother and is friends with people who don’t even have a proper education. But in the end, he is still a proud greaser and loves all of his friends, which are his family. This picture also relates to the book in the aspect of suicide because Picasso painted this piece after a friend committed suicide. …show more content…

Dally felt as if he wouldn't be able to sustain on this planet after he lost something “Gold” to him. Dally felt connected with Johnny because he had been abandoned by his parents too and could relate to Jonny’s pain, that was also his. Sometimes the worst has to happen for the toughest people to have a breaking point in life, and Dally’s was when Johnny had finally died. Which is displayed on page 154, “I knew he would be dead because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.” This picture conveys the emptiness that Dally was feeling the moment he knew that the one thing that kept him living was no longer alive. Dally didn't feel important or loved, he thought he was worthless like the Socs told him. And he acted at that by consistently fighting all the time. He ended his life without realizing that he was loved by his friends and they would miss him and that they might not pull through without his strength. Ponyboy knew that he wanted to die and he didn't do it for no reason, that there was the reasoning behind this one action he

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