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Character Analysis Prewriting: Great Starter: W hen you think of Dally from the outsiders what do you think of ? most people think he is just mean but he has so much more to him then just that, he is also caring and protective. Thesis Statement: Dally comes across as mean because he went to jail at the age of ten and you don't go to jail for being a nice person. "and i suddenly thought of Dally... in jail at the age of 10... Dally growing up on the streets.'' said Ponyboy

Body Paragraph #1: mean Body Paragraph #2: caring Body Paragraph #3: protective Great Finisher: These traits prove that Dally is more then just mean but also a craing person who protect he those loves.

For my character analysis pre-writing i choose Dally because most people think that he is just mean, but he is also caring and protective.dally is caring because he risked his life for johnny. "He burned his arm badly trying to drag that other kid out the window, " said the paramedic. Most people believe that Dally is just mean because that is the mask he wears, even his friends don't completely know the real Dally. Dally probably does this to keep others out so he doesn't get hurt.

When you think of Dally from the outsiders what do you think of ? Most people think he is just mean but he has so much more to him then just that, he is also caring and protective. Dally comes across as mean because he went to jail at the age of ten and you don't go to jail for being a nice person. "and i suddenly thought of Dally... in jail at the age of 10... Dally growing up on the streets.'' said Ponyboy. But even if Dally never went to jail we would still know that he is mean because he pulled a blade on a nurse just so she would let him out of the hospital, so he could go to the rumble. He is also mean because he jumps people, mugs little kids, gets drunk, and beats up people whenever he gets angry. He is also mean because he acts like he doesn't care about anyone but himself. The way he treated Cherry and Marshall at the movies really shows how mean he is because he didn't even know them, and yet he just leans in close to them and starts cursing up a storm and when Johnny tells him to back off Dally gets up slashes someone else tires and then fights them. He is also mean because he has rap sheet a mile long and all the cops know him, which just makes him a criminal.

Though out the book we also see that Dally is caring, we see this though his actions, such as while he pulls Johnny out of that burning building, even when he sets his arm on fire that doesn't stop Dally, he keeps trying to save Johnny."He burned his arm badly trying to drag that other kid out the window, " said the paramedic.He risked his own life for Johnny by pulling him out of that burning building, the roof could have collapsed on him and killed him or he could have burned to death. But most of all we see that he is caring because when Johnny dies Dally decides he wants to die too because he loved Johnny and looked after him, you don't just kill yourself over someone you hate. When Dally kills himself because Johnny is dead it really proves how much he loved Johnny up to that point I thought that he just cared about him, but when he decided that he didn't want to live with out him, it proved that he did more then just care about him he loved Johnny like a brother.

We see that Dally is protective by the way he helps Johnny and Ponyboy run away. Even though it was highly illegal and he could be sent back to jail and with his record Dally would be there a long time, but he still helps them. The way he helped them escape is by telling them where to go, how to get there,and going to Tim Shepherd (also a thug) and making him hand over all his money, and his gun (even though the reason he had a fully loaded gun is questionable). Dally also gave them all the money he had on him and his jacket. I think Dally giving Ponyboy the jacket really shows how caring he is because he saw that Ponyboy was cold and wet so he gave him his jacket and he didn't even know if he would ever see them again, and that jacket was leather jacket which made it expensive. The jacket also saved Ponyboy from being badly burned. Dally was also protective because he didn't want Johnny going to jail because he didn't want him to get harden in jail the same way he did." You get harden in jail. I don't want that to happen to you. Like it happened to me..." said Dally. He was probably so protective of Johnny because Johnny's parents didnt really care about him the same way Dally's dad doesnt care about him.

These traits prove that there is more to Dally then what meets the eye he is protective of those he loves and caring. I think dally hides the fact that is not just a harden crimal becuase if he did then that would mean that he could get hurt and that he did have feelings.I also think he hides the fact that he does care because that would mean that he would have to stop lying to himself and to others and face the fact that he can get hurt. i think he is so protective of those he loves because he came off he streets of new york and probly saw alot of his friends get hurt, locked up in jail, or even killed. So he feels like he has to protect his friends so they don't leave him too. Dally is overly protective with johnny because Johnny is his friend and he already has it bad enough at home.