The Outsiders Short Story

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The Outsiders Stimulus His eyes were blue, blazing ice, cold with hatred of the whole world. Dally was always in a fight, he had spent three years on the wild side of New York and was already arrested at the age of ten. Being in juvenile changed him he was bullied and picked on for his unique looks. He had an elfish face, high cheekbones, pointed chin, and small, sharp teeth and ears like a lynx. His hair was almost white it was so blonde and he didn’t like haircuts so it fell over his forehead in wisps and kicked out in the back in tufts and curled behind his ears and along the nape of his nape. He was tougher, colder and meaner then the rest of us together. He also had a short fuse, he used to deal with this in New York by joining…show more content…
He might have figured that if he'd been there to protect Johnny in the park, Johnny wouldn't have killed Bob. He might have been thinking that if he'd gone into the church to help Johnny and Pony, then perhaps they would've gotten out sooner, and the burning timbers wouldn’t have fatally injured Johnny. What do you think? Should we look at Dally's death as suicide? Before all this though Ponyboy used to think Dally was some tough punk that gave no one love and Pony makes it clear early on that Dally really is a criminal. He's been to jail and was even involved in serious gang activity in New York City. I thought so, "he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids – he did everything. I didn't like him, but I had to respect him". Last we checked, riding in rodeos was no crime, but jumping little kids is pretty bad. I were also a tad shocked when Dally got out of the hospital by holding a knife to a nurse's throat. With all of this Dallas (Dally) Winston, was a hard nut but he loved Johnny and when he blamed Johnny’s death because of his actions he couldn’t take it and went on a all out suicide mission to die. Ponyboy isn’t sure why but Darry as we are told through Ponyboy thinks that Johnny was loved by all, but throughout the book Johnny looked up to Dally who when Johnny died couldn’t take

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