Johnny In The Outsiders

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In the Novel The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton is about 2 social groups. The greasers and Soc. who were fighting to show dominance over one and another. Johnny Cade and Dally Winston, They were around 17 years old.Dally was Johnny's role model and Dally also protected Johny so nothing could hurt him. Dally had a rough child hood, His dad was hard on him while he was growing up. were around the age of 17. They were inseparable they watch you got each others like brothers do.dally grew up in a bad neighborhood his father didn't treat him too well so that also contributes to his toughness. Dally was Johnny's role model.

Dally Had a rough child hood he lived in the bad part of New York. Not the Rich side but the poor side that has no money

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