The Outsiders: Ponyboy Compared to Dally

If you take look a look at people around the world you can see there are many difference between;Eyes, ears, nose, the color of your skin along with ethnicity are some of the many ways people use to easily identify other people. When you try to see the aspects in people you need to look for whats on the inside,not just the outside. Many people just look at the outside of a person and never really try to see whats on the inside. The characters Ponyboy and Dally for example from S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders

The characters Ponyboy and Dally are both in a gang called the Greasers.The Greasers get into many rumbles with the Soc’s. As members of the gang the Greasers are very close to one another,especially to Johnny.Another thing makes Ponyboy and Dally the same is the fact that they both care deeply about Johnny.Ponyboy cared about johnny’s welfare like the others but ever since he’s experience with Johnny at the church Ponyboy`s relationship with Johnny grew strong because Pony really got to understand Johnny better by talking about life and literature.Dally cared about hardly anything in the world. but Johnny ,so he robbed a store to get gun down by the police because he thought hes life wasn’t over.The fact that Ponyboy and Dally booth do drugs is another way both of theses characters are. Dally like the other members of the gangs drinks to help his problems.Ponyboy drinks just like the rest of the gang but he is very addicted to cigarettes.Even with this in comm Ponyboy and Dally are still two very different people.

Ponyboy, for one has a loving family of his brothers Sodapop and Darry, even though their parents died.Dally on the other hand had very little mentioned about his parents, but from what the book said Dally had been in jail several times. The novel mentions very little about his parents, so it seem like his parents did not care about him. What Dally cared a lot about was Johnny's death. When the character, Johnny, died, Dally and Pony