The Outsiders
Alexandra MacDonald
The friendship between Dally and Johnny demonstrate the great strength friendship in the Greasers. After I finished reading the novel I realized that Dally and Johnny are very much alike. They are both low educated, brave, and lacking in love.
From the novel, we can see Dally needs education, and so does Johnny. Dally never went to school, 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. 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. 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 has learnt a lot of bad things from the street. After Johnny hides from the cops with Ponyboy, he begins to like the book “Gone with the Wind” although he does not know anything about the Civil War and even less about plantations, and Ponyboy has to explain a lot of it to him.
In fact, when Greasers deal with their own problems, they become even braver as not fit to their ages, especially Dally and Johnny. First, when they hear the screams come out from the burning church, Johnny rushes into to rescue the poor kids. He does not think about himself that he might die or be injured, and he gives the first chance to Ponyboy by pushing him out of the window. Dally tries to drag Johnny and the other kids out of the window and he burns one arm pretty badly. Later they are reported in the paper as “he heroes”. Both Dally and Johnny are good fighters in their gang. Dally joins in the fight with the Socs even though one of his arms is still broken. Last, they both don’t care. Once Two-Bit broke the school windows and Dally knows that. But when the fuzz comes to pick up Dally, Johnny sees him keeping real cool and calm the whole time. Johnny starts to not care about anything after he kills Bob. Even if he might die, he does not mind it when he is in the burning church rescuing the kids. The two young guys have showed the same great courage by withstanding their troubles, no doubt about that.
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The final similarity between Dally and Johnny is that neither Dally nor Johnny has had love. First, Dally is similar to Johnny in that both of them do not have real families in their lives. They have never experienced the love from a warm family. Even if Johnny has a family, he is kicked out and is not allowed to come back. Both Dally and Johnny join the Greasers gang at an early age. The street lives make Dally and Johnny become tough, and also change them to hate the Socs and the unfair world. They stick together as brothers, live as a family and fight as an army, but the story tells us some of them are only at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Finally, Johnny’s parents treat him badly, almost the same as Dally’s parents do. Not only does Johnny’s father always beats him up, but also his mother ignores him. And Ponyboy says that he would have run away if it wasn’t for the. Johnny’s parents do not mind if he is back home or not, alive or not, and he often has to sleep in the park. Dally sees a reflection in Johnny, so he sympathizes with him and takes care of him.
As far as you can see, the indestructible friendship between Dally and Johnny is a good model of the greasers. Obviously, both Dally and Johnny are low educated, brave and lacking in love. It forces them to join gangs to fight and not to attend to school. They grow up on the outside of society, they are not looking for fight, and they are looking to belong.
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