The Life of Dally Winston

The reason I chose to write about Dally is because I could make real life connections to him very easily. Plus I found good quotes from The Outsiders about Mr. Winston being a static character.

            Dallas Winston has had a very toil life. Pretty much everything has been an up-field battle since he was a young boy going to penitentiary house. Here’s a quote that stuck out to me that made me believe that made Dally who he is. “Johnny, you don't know what a few months in jail can do to you, man. You get mean in jail; I just don't wanna see that happen to you like it happened to me, man. Understand?” Since then though, he has been tough as nails and bull headed as ever. And as far as we know, he is never going to change. He doesn’t care about many people, he really has no cares or worries at all and his only family was the gang. That’s just how his life is.

            Ever since he went to jail he never let anything or anyone get close to him till the day he died. Except one boy, Johnny. That’s the one person he truly cherished and carried about. But not even Johnny could change his ways of who he is. Just because he is a rebel that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s mean all the time he just acts in the moment and does what he likes. Once he lost Johnny he lost himself there was nothing worth living for so he didn’t live.

            Dally Winston reminds me of Sulley from the movie “Monsters Inc”. They both seem mean and hardcore at first but once you really get to know them they are nice and caring.  They both had that one special person they were close to and would do anything to save them. Even though Sulley is dynamic because at the beginning he only cared about himself and by the end he loves Boo and wanted to help her get home safely.  Dally is dynamic because he learned to love Johnny but he didn’t change his ways in everyday life.

            Quoted from “Monsters Inc:” “Sulley you’re not supposed to name it. Once you name it, you start getting attached to it. Now put that thing back where it same from or so help me.”   And from The Outsiders: “We gotta win that fight tonight. We gotta get even with those Socs! Let's do it for Johnny, man. We'll do it for Johnny!” This quote suck out to me because it shows that he cares whether the like it or not. Everyone always has something they will fight for and once it is gone, it’s a big hole right smack in your heart. You’ll always have the memories that will last a lifetime.

This is “Unbelievable”

Author’s note: I decided to read this book because I watch the tv series. Yes there are some differences but in the tv series we are still waiting to find out who –A is. Hopefully soon, it’s been three long seasons!

In this week’s blog addition of Booksbecrazy.com the specialty book I Mariah Bieber am critiquing is Unbelievable. To me it was the best book out of the four because they finally got somewhere catching the killer and finding out whom –A is. The other books kept dragging on and on. The clues getting us nowhere really, all of them were minor. That’s why it made this book so intriguing to read.

I’m not going to be a spoiler but if you think about it and look back at each one of these books it’s pretty obvious who –A is especially in the book 3 Perfect when Hanna Marin notices the number –A texts from. It’s a number she knows all too well from a person that’s way too close and has a dark past herself. “Except the text wasn’t from A. It had been from a regular cell phone number a number Hanna knew well.”

At the end I bet all of the girls were relieved to know that the killer and the psycho path –A were gone. I mean how would you like it if you got those freak situations happening to you and have all you dirty little secrets poured out into the world. Personally I would get know where in life and be curled up in a ball wanting to hide if all my secrets were spilled. Luckily the hardships are over. Or so it seems because they left a cliff hanger at the end. “She watched as it cruised down the street, turned right at the light disappeared. Her blood chilled. It couldn’t have been her, she told herself. Could it have?”  Is Ali not dead? Is she back? Find out in book 5 Wicked! Till next week for a new book I'm out.

Deuces,

             Mariah Bieber

Everyone is a Person No Matter How They Look

Author’s note: Our class is writing about the main theme of The Outsiders and it was just very easy for me to make connections to this because stereotyping and judging happens a lot in the book and still does now a days.

A dark clothed girl walks down the hallway receiving glares from everyone. A glasses wearing and braced boy sits down at a lunch table and everyone else gets up and leaves. A teenage girl wearing such a simple and dirty outfit comes into class late only to have every person look up at her and grimace. These situations are very strong and true examples of stereotyping. Stereotyping goes on everywhere. People discriminate others just because of how the look, talk, act, and their backgrounds. This unfair judgment goes on everywhere, including schools, neighborhoods, and even between the closest of friends. One example I came across not too long ago, was in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinston.

 The main theme of the book The Outsiders is stereotyping.. The people in this book are always fighting over where they come from or where they’ve been.  Mostly they fight because one group has been born into a perfect family. This group is called the “Socialites” or “Socs” They’re the lucky ones with the wealth; what more could you ask for? Alongside, there is another group: “Greasers.” The people in this group are much less fortunate. They have a poor family, fight- picking friends, and people who have been grabbed by the “fuzz” tens and hundreds of times. No matter how different these groups are, everyone is trying their best to live. In the end everyone is just a person trying to make it in this crazy world, just like you and me.

There were many scenes that stereotyping was demonstrated. One seen in particular was very interesting. It was the scene in which Pony, the Greaser, and Randy, the Soc talked by the gas station. What really stuck out to me, in this scene, was the simple point that Randy talks to Ponyboy. This is surprising because they come from completely different sides of the tracks and they were just about to go into a head to head rumble. Then the most astonishing thing came out of that Soc’s mouth. This quote really stuck out to me, “You can’t win even if you whip us. You can’t win even if you whip us. You’ll still be where you are, and we’ll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn’t do any good fighting and killing. It doesn’t prove a thing. We’ll forget if you win or if you don’t Socs will still be Socs and Greasers will still be Greasers. Sometimes I think it’s the ones in the middle are the lucky stiffs……” And another quote that stuck out was when later, Ponyboy whispered, “He ain’t a Soc he’s just a guy who wanted to talk.” That moment those people had put aside differences and each had become a human in each other’s eyes.

Throughout the book each character has hardships a little different from one another, but always under one big picture. Even though there were two completely different gangs with completely different people, most of them had the same kind of tribulations. Bob and Johnny both ended up dying and they both had family problems. In the end people are people, no matter their skin color, hair color, or where they were born, or anything else. People are still fighting today; there are huge gang rivals in California and all over the world that. They will never stop despising each other. They will never stop fighting each other. They will never come to realize that they are all one big group of people. They will never understand that we all are family, under one big roof of god.

That’s how the Bloods, Crips, and KKK’s work. People are shot and killed for wearing the wrong color in a certain side of a town. It’s completely and utterly ridicules. We understand that, the characters in The Outsiders understood that, the government understands that, everyone besides those blindly blade- swinger and punch-throwers understand that. In The Outsiders, only three people died, multiply this by the world’s population and you have hundreds and thousands dying. The citizens of the world need to stop hating and killing or soon there will be no one, nobody, and nothing at all.

The Struggles of Johnny

Author’s note: I decide to write about Johnny from the book The Outsiders because he had some things I could relate to such as stick up for people and never giving up.

            People go through insane situations everyday of their lives. For Johnny he has had struggles since the day he was brought into this world. What if your parents didn’t want you around and beat you to a pulp if you got in their way? Would you stay or would you run away and never look back? They only true family he had was his gang.

            When I read the hardships of Johnny I think to myself of how easy I have it even though I can be very ungrateful.  If I were to step into Johnny’s shoes I would have not changed much in my life. I would still go home even if I got ignored or beaten just because it was a warm place to stay compared to the cold, cold world. Every day I would hope that if I came home this one last time they would finally love me.

            If I had to spend a day Johnny Cade’s shoes it would like be walking up a never ending hill of molasses. Every step I took I would be in a sticky situation. Such as the time when Johnny killed a Soc to save his best friend Ponyboy. If my best friend was getting drowned to death by some hooligan and my only choice was to kill, I think I would. There would be some definite bad consequences but if it was for self defense it needed to happen. Yes I probably would be scared for life but at the same time feel so proud like I was a hero to someone’s life.

            One of my favorite quotes is, “Never judge a person till you have walked a mile in their shoes.”           Try walking in Johnny’s shoes and you too can experience can what is like to be born in the wrong situation every day.