Bridge from Death: The relations between love and worth to death
The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton, conveys death is desired when one has no more to love, or if one cannot contribute to the world any longer. When three characters from two rival gangs perish, the protagonist of the novel, Ponyboy, finds that they had much more in common than he initially dreamed. The first is that of a Soc, a socially elite gangster, who seemingly has a well rounded and exhilarating life before his death. Ensuing his are the mortalities of two Greasers, Johnny and Dally respectively. All three had people to love, and a motivation that, in their lives, continued the pulse of time, until the streams of their lives overturned, or simply drained …show more content…
The only person in his life whom he could love and expect love from is Johnny. Both have similar dilemmas, yet different attitudes toward them, and Dally hides his within the folds of his character. “So even Dally has a breaking point”, Ponyboy remarks when he reflects on Dally’s reaction to Johnny’s demise. Furthermore, Dally is afraid to meet his own breaking point directly, and he obliges the police to kill him by pointing an unloaded firearm at them. When his young friend dies a hero, Dally becomes an unknown hoodlum with no goal to achieve, and no one to love. Ponyboy says rather remorsefully after he dies: “No one will write editorials praising him in the newspaper.” Here, the reader realizes that the only goal in Dally’s entire existence is to protect Johnny, which enhances his feelings of security and …show more content…
Hinton uses her novel The Outsiders to convey the fact that life only has meaning when one can love and contribute to something or someone. When both of these are deprived or lost, a possible reason for suicide is the result. Here, Bob Sheldon has been murdered before he could truly achieve, while he still has love in his life, so his was not a planned mortality. There was also no evidence that he desired death prior to his murder. Johnny resists Death, stating that he has more to see, more to do in the world. On the contrary, Dally desires death, since he can no longer love and can not protect Johnny any more. Of love, Emily Dickinson states: “Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell”, both of which are thought to ensue death. This also explains the pain of parting due to various reasons, though I think that she is implying that death is the main time of parting here. Thus, death is often sought and achieved when one has nothing to love and nothing to strive toward, while to die with both of these intact would be a premature demise.This emphasizes that we ought to continue loving and striving, for they trickle meaning into our oceans of
The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton, conveys death is desired when one has no more to love, or if one cannot contribute to the world any longer. When three characters from two rival gangs perish, the protagonist of the novel, Ponyboy, finds that they had much more in common than he initially dreamed. The first is that of a Soc, a socially elite gangster, who seemingly has a well rounded and exhilarating life before his death. Ensuing his are the mortalities of two Greasers, Johnny and Dally respectively. All three had people to love, and a motivation that, in their lives, continued the pulse of time, until the streams of their lives overturned, or simply drained …show more content…
The only person in his life whom he could love and expect love from is Johnny. Both have similar dilemmas, yet different attitudes toward them, and Dally hides his within the folds of his character. “So even Dally has a breaking point”, Ponyboy remarks when he reflects on Dally’s reaction to Johnny’s demise. Furthermore, Dally is afraid to meet his own breaking point directly, and he obliges the police to kill him by pointing an unloaded firearm at them. When his young friend dies a hero, Dally becomes an unknown hoodlum with no goal to achieve, and no one to love. Ponyboy says rather remorsefully after he dies: “No one will write editorials praising him in the newspaper.” Here, the reader realizes that the only goal in Dally’s entire existence is to protect Johnny, which enhances his feelings of security and …show more content…
Hinton uses her novel The Outsiders to convey the fact that life only has meaning when one can love and contribute to something or someone. When both of these are deprived or lost, a possible reason for suicide is the result. Here, Bob Sheldon has been murdered before he could truly achieve, while he still has love in his life, so his was not a planned mortality. There was also no evidence that he desired death prior to his murder. Johnny resists Death, stating that he has more to see, more to do in the world. On the contrary, Dally desires death, since he can no longer love and can not protect Johnny any more. Of love, Emily Dickinson states: “Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell”, both of which are thought to ensue death. This also explains the pain of parting due to various reasons, though I think that she is implying that death is the main time of parting here. Thus, death is often sought and achieved when one has nothing to love and nothing to strive toward, while to die with both of these intact would be a premature demise.This emphasizes that we ought to continue loving and striving, for they trickle meaning into our oceans of