In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the two characters Dally and Johnny have many differences but many similarities as well. The character Dally is mean and criminal like. While the character Johnny is quiet. ………………………………………………………. The characters Johnny and Dally have many similarities for example both Johnny and Dally have abusive or neglectful parents. Dally’s parents neglect him and don't care where he is or how he is doing. In the book when Johnny was asking if his parents were looking for him after they ran away Dally said “shoot, my old man don’t give a hang if i’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter. That don’t bother me none.”(88) in anger questioning why Johnny wants to know if they cared. Similarly Johnny also has neglectful and abusive parents who beat him or yell at him every time he comes home. Ponyboy felt sympathy for Johnny and described “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something”(12) but Johnny liked when that happened because it was the only time either of his parents noticed him. Both the …show more content…
Dally shows that he cares about Johnny when Johnny dies at the hospital. Dally starts getting aggressive and punching walls and telling Johnny not to die.”oh, damnit, Johnny, don’t die, please don’t die…”(149) Dally says while Johnny lays in the hospital bed. Similarly Johnny shows he cares about Dally when he is talking about Dally. Saying when Dally took the blame for something Two-Bit had done saying that is was gallant for him to do something like that. When Johnny said that Ponyboy thought “That was the first time I realized the extent of Johnny’s hero-worship for Dally Winston. Of all of us, Dally was the one I liked least.”(76) and realized that most people don’t like Dally but Johnny did. Dally and Johnny both care about each other a