Outsiders Character Analysis Essay

In the novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, Dally starts out as a young adult afraid to look weak and he changes into a brave, but lost person that doesn’t know how to cope with his emotions. In the beginning Dally seemed tough. In transition he is a brave and helpful person. In the end, Dally is someone who feels lost and ready to risk everything. Dally made a dramatic change from the beginning of this novel to the end.
Dally started out as a bad boy who seemed very tough. When Ponyboy describes Dally in the beginning of the book he says, “He was tougher than the rest of us - tougher, colder, meaner. The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn’t present in Dally. He was as wild as …show more content…
Dally gives multiple sacrifices. After Johnny and Ponyboy kill the Soc, Bob, they go to Dally who is willing to help them out. On pages 60-62 Dally helps them out by giving Ponyboy a towel and a new dry shirt so he will not get sick or too cold, giving them a gun so that they can protect themselves if they need to, giving them money so they have emergency cash, and telling them that they should hide in the abandoned church and only come out if it is absolutely necessary. Not only is Dally being nice by giving them all of these things including advice, but he is also being brave because he could get in a lot of trouble, especially with his reputation, by helping out murderers on pages 60-62. Another reason why Dally is helpful is he comes to visit Johnny and Ponyboy and takes them out to get some real food on page 80-84. This shows that he is willing to help them out because he would not go out of his way and buy them food and check on them if he wasn’t trying to help and he didn’t care about them. A major reason Dally was brave and helpful is when the church is burning, after Ponyboy and Johnny run in to save the children, Dally runs in and saves both of them on pages 92-93. Dally could have easily died saving them, yet he still went for it and had to deal with the consequences of hurting his arm. He did this so that his friends and people he cared about would not die. Dally is not who we first expected, and will make …show more content…
Hinton, Dally starts out as a tough young adult; he changes into a courageous guy overwhelmed with his feelings. In the beginning Dally is afraid to look weak. He transitions into someone who is brave and helpful. In the end, Dally is someone who feels lost and doesn’t know how to cope with his emotion. When the reader first met Dallas Winston, they thought he is just a trouble making bad boy, but he was definitely the one who warmed our hearts the