The Story The Outsiders the characters Dally and Johnny are very similar characters, as well as different. They both have similar homelives but very different personalites. But both care for each other, and treat each othere like brothers. But one is a hoodlum and the other is a hoodlum. They both have abusive and neglective parents.
Dally and Johnny do not have very great homelives, neither parents care for either of them, but when they do pay attention to either of them it either abusive or neglective. Dally doesn’t care about his parents, but Johnny slightly does, but doesn’t want to. Johnny always talks about his parents and how they don’t care about him, but …show more content…
Dally always likes to cause trouble and he doesn't care for other people so he doesn’t care who he hurts besides Johnny because he likes fights. Dally always has a reason to get mad or get back at people. For example he wanted to get even with the Socs for Johnny. Dally says, “ We got to get even with the Socs, for Johnny.” (125) Dally wants to get even with the socs for putting all the greasers and especially Johnny through this, and Dally also likes fights. But Johnny doesn’t want the fights to go on, he wants everyone to get along, and move on. Likewise Johnny sleeps in the lot because he doesn’t want his parents to start up a fight with him or each other especially fist fights. Johnny says, “ Useless… fighting is no good.” (148) Johnny doesn’t want any fights to go on. He feels as though it doesn’t matter anymore to get even with the socs, because he is dieing. He wants everyone to get along and not fight, but Dally does things the opposite. Dally and Johnny have differences in …show more content…
Dally, Two-bit and Ponyboy talk to Johnny on two separate occasions, and they tell Johnny how he is a hero to all those children he saved. For example Johnny after thinking about it in the letter he wrote later in the story that, he didn’t mind dying anymore, because he saved those kids. Dally only went in to save them because Johnny was stuck in the church fire. Two-bit tells Johnny, “ Did you know you got your name in the paper for being a hero?”(120) Dally will never care whether his name is in the paper or not, he just gets what he wants. Likewise, he pulled out a unloaded gun at the police so the police would shoot him and kill him. Dally didn’t want to be alive if Johnny wasn’t, so Dally got what he wanted. Ponyboy thinks, “ Two friends of mine died that one night: one a hero, the other a hoodlum.”(154) When Johnny wrote the letter to Dally and Ponyboy, he meant a lot of things like stay gold, and you're worth it, Dally would of never of written that to anyone, which shows one is a hero, and the other is a