What Is Johnny's Relationship In The Outsiders

As I stated above, Dally had proven that he cared about Johnny, many times throughout the book. Dally had practically taken Johnny in as his family. He was like a mentor to Johnny, he wanted him to do well and have a better life than him. Johnny was the greasers’ “kid brother,” meaning that everyone cared for him as a younger brother. On page 89, Dally says to Johnny, “Johnny, I ain’t mad at you. I just don’t want you to get hurt,” this tells us that he really cares about his feelings and doesn’t want any harm done to him. He continues with, “You don’t know what a few months in jail can do to you.” He cared about what would happen to Johnny, he didn’t want him to end up like the uncaring side of Dally. Indirectly, he mentioned caring about him, he didn’t want Johnny to end up like him if he turned himself in to the police. This proves that Dally has a caring side to

Because of Dallys words to Johnny, he is a hero. This quote explains how Dally really cares about Johnny. Dally doesn't show this amount of love to the other gang members; it is mainly geared to Johnny. If any other of the gang members stood up to what Dally said to them, they were gonna get hit or bad mouthed by Dally. This was not the case for Johnny, when they went to the drive-in theater Dally was talking to Cherry in a bad way and Johnny stood up for her.

In the letter that Johnny left for Ponyboy,“‘There's still a lot of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he knows’” (179). The note Johnny left for Ponyboy to tell Dally, but it was too late for that. Ponyboy says, “Johnny worshipped the ground Dallas walked on”(25). This shows that Johnny is just Dally’s pet. Johnny knows that Dally cares about him but he does not show it because is a tough person. All in all, Both characters care for each other.

The author writes, “Johnny’s eyes glowed. Dally was proud of him. That was all Johnny had ever wanted” (148). Johnny’s reaction is priceless. Out of the entire greaser gang, Johnny and Dally’s relationship is the strongest and most significant. When Johnny needs Dally the most, he is his staunchest supporter. In return, Johnny gives back the same, if not more, amount of affection to Dally. When Dally and Johnny die, Ponyboy makes a list of realizations. Ponyboy thinks, “But I remembered Dally pulling Johnny through the window of the burning church; Dally giving us his gun, although it could mean jail for him; Dally risking his life for us, trying to keep Johnny out of trouble.” (154). It is clearly proven that ‘tough’ Dallas Winston makes a substantial effort to make Johnny’s life better. If Dally would not make the effort for Johnny, then Johnny would have to experience life worse than it already is. Since Dally thinks of Johnny almost like a little brother, it would hurt Dally to see Johnny experience that kind of pain. Dally and Johnny are bonded by these similarities, but they are also bonded through their differences.

Dally and Johnny may be very different, but they have extremely important similarities. For example, both of these characters place very little value on their lives. Dally is first arrested at the age of ten and he loves to break

This scene happened when the blue mustang the Socs drove pulled up to Pony and Johnny in the park and fought Pony and Johnny and it led to them drowning Pony so Johnny stabbed Bob. This was a very important scene to have in both the book and the movie because it leads climax and would change the plot if it wasn’t in them. Secondly, Johnny was in the church fire that Pony, Dally, and Johnny went in to save children and no one thought he would survive, “Johnny, well, I don’t know about him. A piece of timber caught him across the back - he might have a broken back, and he was burned pretty severely” (95). Without this scene in both the movie and the book, Johnny wouldn’t have died, and Dally wouldn’t have died, and it would have turned out differently at the end of the book. Next, Dally was running to the lot while three police were chasing him, and he was meeting the others

Dally is tougher, aggressive, more hardcore, while Johnny is quieter and more sensitive. “Dally didn’t give a Yankee Dime about anyone but himself, and he was cold and hard and mean” (90). Even Dally’s friends think that he is mean, that he is the toughest one of the group. Johnny on the other hand is quieter, more kept to himself. “ . . .

Johnny hates fighting most of them all. He will always do the right thing never getting into fights except for when he was jumped. Johnny said to Dally and Pony that fighting is “‘Useless... fighting's no good....”’(148). Johnny was disappointed in them for fighting the soc’s he disagrees with all fighting. Unlike Johnny, Dally loves to fight.Dally is a tough greaser who does not waste anytime creating a problem if he has the opportunity. Dally is always looking to start a problem with the police and other people. The matter of facts, even his friends try their hardest to stay on his friendly side. Ponyboy says of Dallas, “One time, in a dime store, a guy told him to move over at the candy counter. Dally had turned around and belted him so hard it knocked a tooth loose. A complete stranger, too” (24). Dally has a bad temper, and he is not afraid to fight with anyone. Most of the time he will find ways to break laws randomly. Looking up to what I have stated you can tell they are two completely different people at

Johnny Cade comes from a broken home, his dad hits him, his mom does not care about Johnny, the only thing he has are his friends, the greasers. Ponyboy, one of his closest friends, is talking about everyone in the gang and when he came to Johnny he said, “Johnny had it awful rough at home”(4). Johnny unlike everyone else in the gang, except Dally, does not have someone in his family that truly cares for him. This affects him because it makes him upset that his parents do not care for him. If Johnny did not have it so hard at home, he would be more content and joyful, and even less scared. Johnny is a little bothered that his parents did not ask about Johnny so Dally goes on and says, “‘my old man don’t give a hang whether i’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter’” (88). When Dally is 10, he gets arrested and is on the streets of New York, which shows how little Dally’s father cares about him. Maybe if his father did care, Dally would be more kind and caring, and like Johnny, more joyful. If Dally’s dad cared, he may still be living with his parents and would not be a greaser. Dally and Johnny are

Dally wanted to die because johnny had died from the beam that had fallen on him when he was trying to help the little kids. Had he of not gone in the burning house he probably would have lived. But knowing Johnny he had to help. So all in all he died while trying to save someone in a house, burning with hot scorching flames that would probably burn anything in its way. I think he forgot to think about that he didn’t have to die right then to be with Johnny to know that he could be with him because Johnny would always be with him even though while in heaven. He was mainly focused on the fact that his best pal was now gone and somewhere where he could not see him at the time. So he committed suicide by going to a gas station and robbing the

This idea is shown in the quote, “Blast it, Johnny, what do they matter? (Johnny’s parents). Shoot, my old man don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter. That don’t bother me none,” (88). It does not matter whether Dally is just exaggerating his father’s neglectance or not, as the quote indicates that Dally himself, acknowledges the fact that he has no family to turn to. One may argue that his fellow Greasers are his real “family”, but that is false as “family” members are supposed to genuinely like each other and be comfortable with one another. Despite the fact that Dally’s fellow Greasers see him as their unofficial leader, it is only because he is physically strong. They are scared to make him even the slightest bit annoyed, as shown even when Dally’s supposed “pet”, Johnny became very apprehensive after Dally got surprised at him for telling him to not bother Cherry (24). Due to the absence of a real friend nor a “family” to be supported by, Dally would never be considered “gallant”. Every gallant person must start with a good foundation of love and support before he could be capable of doing anything “gallant” himself, and this especially goes for

Johnny was the only thing Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone”(Hinton 152). Dally would soon after rob a grocery store and provoke the police to shoot him, successfully committing suicide. The loss of Johnny had been enough to tip him over the edge, proving that he was human and had feelings. He was the only greaser who could be speculated to be unfeeling, and his cause of death was that he cared a lot, or maybe even too much, about someone.

Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston were best friends who were like brothers. Johnny and Dallas were members of the Greasers gang. Johnny looked up to Dally and Dally was proud of Johnny. Johnny and Dally were poor kids but they had friends who were like family. Johnny and Dally died and they will be missed by the ones that cared for them.

But once he sees Johnny it gives him something to love and care about. He made sure that Johnny didn’t become violent. He says in the book multiple times he cares about Johnny he said “Johnny…I just don’t want you to get hurt.” A quote also says that “Johnny was the only thing that Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone.” Later in the book Johnny dies and it is too much for Dally and he gets himself killed. Dally was so distraught, he wanted to be dead.

Answer from Dally: “I helped Johnny escape after the murder because I cared about him, I knew that he did it because he wanted to protect someone or something that he cared about, and because I don’t want him to go to jail. I helped him because I didn’t want him to end up in jail like I did. He would never survive in there. Besides, I don’t want him to get hard like I did.”