The two categories of violence in literature are the specific injury that authors cause characters to visit on one another or on themselves, and the narrative violence that causes characters harm in general. The first type is character-on-character violence, and it is when one character harms another or themselves. The second type is when the author introduces violence to advance plot and are ultimately responsible. These are normally accidents in text. In The Outsiders, Dally is shot by the cops when they see he is holding a gun which happens to be empty. He dies. The purpose of this act of violence was to continue the plot by brings the characters closer together, and to make you feel sorry for Dally, even though he broke the law.
