The Similarities and Differences Between Dally and Johnny in The Outsiders Essay

Johnny and Dally: Characters with Similar Problems yet Different Personalities How can two characters be so similar yet so different at the same time? The two characters, Johnny and Dally, from the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton have many similarities and many vast differences. Johnny and Dally are similar because they both have abusive parents and both do not have value in life. Despite these similarities, they also have differences such as Johnny follows all the rules and Dally simply…

The Outsiders Compare and Contrast The novel ,The Outsiders , and the movie are very similar and a little different. S. E. Hinton is the author of the book The Outsiders that was published in 1967 and was placed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the movie was published in 1983. The movie and the novel are both about the same storyline the only things are is the movie producer changed it up to make it become a little bit more realistic and interesting. Both the movie and the book and themes that were very…

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the two characters who seem to have nothing in common with each other, are more alike than you may think. But along with some similarities, a few differences come to mind. Differences such as how Johnny sees the good in the world while Dally can’t, and how Johnny is a law abiding person and Dally isn’t. Some things they have in common are that both Johnny and Dally put little value on their lives and they both have abusive and negligent parents. The similarities…

Introduction: My favorite quote throughout the entire story was when Johnny told Ponyboy when he was dying to “Stay gold, Ponyboy… Stay gold.” The meaning of the word “stay gold” was to tell you to stay innocent for as long as you could. My opinion of the book was that the book was good, but it would give too much information for parts that were not important. My opinion of the movie was that it did a good job of just getting to the important parts of the story. I wish the movie would have been…

movie.The Outsider movie and the book both have some similarities. They have more different than similarities. The film mostly stayed close to the original source of information. Similarities are how Johnny and Ponyboy hide in the church or how Johnny gets hurt in the church fire. How Dally gets shot by the police and how he die. Even Johnny death is the same. How he dies in the hospital bed. There's way more differences than similarities trust me. One of the major change is between the…

quote because I will be comparing The Outsiders book to the movie, personally I think the book was better because it is the original think it was made a lot better than the movie. Although the movie did help me imagine all the characters and some of the scenes in the book a lot better. The book had a lot more details about the characters and their lives, like Sodapop and his horse, how Pony’s english teacher was the one who inspired him to write the Outsiders, and many more enticing details.…

about the rumble or when dally robs a store and gets shot or even when Johnny dies. The movie was really detailed. While the book and movie have many similarities and differences, the Movie was more effective in telling the story. In Chapter 9 of the Outsiders, SE Hinton shows that Johnny dies because of the church injury. A burning beam fell on Johnny’s back and he was paralyzed from his back down. If he stayed alive, he wouldn’t be able to walk the rest of his life. Then Dally losses his cool…

Dally and Johnny Often, people who seem to be opposites are not so different at all. Throughout The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton proves this, but never as well as with Johnny and Dally. Although they come from similarly abusive households and care immensely about the other, the characters have very different philosophies. They have different outlooks on the law, and the world in general. Despite their differences, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade have many similarities. Neither Johnny nor…

The story The Outsiders are an amazing story in which takes place in the 50’s to 60’s era. The story is about the Greasers and the Socs which were two different social groups. The Greasers are like the criminals and the hoods, and the Socs are the rich kids with fancy cars and wear button up shirts. The story is based around a kid named Ponyboy who lives with his two other brothers since their parents died. One day Ponyboy and Johnny, who is a kid that hangs in the Greaser’s gang, go walking in…

In the The Outsiders book and movie, many similarities and differences can be noted. Some are very noticeable, and others are not as much. Some main events in the book were left out of the movie, and little sentences from the book are entire scenes in the movie. Since certain scenes were left out from the movie that were in the book, the significant aspects and symbolism that were connected to them were also left out. Although some scenes did not have as much importance as others, the absence of…