Character Analysis of Johnny and Dally from "The Outsid
Character Analysis of Johnny and Dally from "The Outsiders"
Why do the Greasers have a great strength in friendship? Why do the Greasers stick together like brothers? Why is Dally feeling hopeless as to die after he knows Johnny was died? The friendship between Dally and Johnny demonstrate the great strength friendship in the Greasers. The people who have the same personality come together because they enjoy the same thing and that is why different people like to join different groups to share their feelings and problems. After I finished reading the novel of ¡°The Outsiders¡±, I realized that although Dally and Johnny have grown up in different cities, they like to join together because they have a lot of the same habits, notions and moral qualities. They are both low educated, brave, and lacking in love, so that they are sticking together like glue.
From the novel, we can see Dally needs education, and so does Johnny. First of all, Dally does not go to school in New York City, so his life becomes worse. He has a lot of files at the police station because he used to be arrested. He gets drunk, lies, cheats and steals. He does many bad things. Johnny does not go to school either. His family is poor, and his parents do not allow him to go to school, often beating and kicking him out. No school could accept the Greasers who live out of the cycle of ordinary society. Second, Dally has spent his childhood on the street, and Johnny has too. When the other kids are studying in school, Dally is fighting with his gang. He has spent three years on the wild side of New York and has been arrested at the age of ten. Johnny learns smoking and drinking but not reading and writing in the gang. Just like Ponyboy says, ¡°Sixteen years on the streets you can learn a lot, but all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you could see a lot, but all the wrong sights, not the sights you want to see.¡± Dally and Johnny have learnt a lot of bad things from the street. That¡¯s why their education is so low. After Johnny hides from the cops with Ponyboy, he sure likes the book of ¡°Gone with the Wind¡±,...