Can people who are so different be so similar? Can some people who are so similar be so different? Dally and Johnny are those two who are so different, yet similar. In the book SE Hinton writes The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Dally Winston come from two completely different backgrounds and have completely different scruples. Yet, at the same time, they are similar. Dally and Johnny's parents disown them both, making Johnny and Dally mentally tough, and the boys do not value their lives. At the same time, although they are different, Dally is stronger than Johnny. However, Johnny has a soft heart and Dally wouldn't even pay any attention if someone was dying right next to him. Two people with two completely different characteristics have something similar. Both Dally and Johnny are mentally tough due to their parents. Both Johnny and Dally's parents don't care for them and could care less. For example, during Dally's childhood he went to prison, was part of a gang and was involved in many fights and his father would not take care of him even if he won the lottery. Dally also talks about his father's disgrace of him in the car with Johnny and Ponyboy, "'Shoot, my father doesn't care if I'm in prison or dead in a car crash or drunk in a gutter...' "(88). Dally could easily live without his father and most of the time he does. Dally goes out with his friends and stays at their house. Likewise, Johnny's parents use him as a rag doll to vent, “his father always hit him” (14). The gang knows what happens at Johnny's house. Ponyboy once witnessed: "Johnny gets whipped with a two-by-four by his old man" (33). Ponyboy talks about how loud and mean Johnny's mom is and, "you can... middle of paper... says that he's more important than anything and he won't even think of going out of his way to do something nice for someone or something. Both Johnny and Dally's similarities and differences balance each other Johnny and Dally are both similar, but at the same time they are different. In SE Hinton's book The Outsiders, Dally and Johnny do not value their own lives and both are mentally tough. On the contrary Dally is much stronger than Johnny, but Johnny has a softer heart than Dally Johnny and Dally are like a ying yang, in all the good there is bad and in all the bad c 'is of the good. In this case with Johnny and Dally, in all the similarities there are differences and in all the differences it is really possible that two different people with different surpluses are similar, or are simply pretending to like each other?.