User blog:LoudFanWolf/Comparing a tough girl and a tough guy

So, have you ever read the S.E Hinton novel, The Outsiders? If you haven't, well, first off, you must have had a really bad Reading teacher in middle school. Secondly, please stop reading this and go to your local library and check it out, or look up an audiobook reading on Youtube, it's an amazing story that's both surprisingly compelling and touching. However, if you have read The Outsiders, please allow me to compare the characters of Dallas "Dally" Winston, and Ronnie Anne Santiago.

1. They both have rough and tough personalities (but for different reasons)

Ronnie Anne and Dallas could be both be considered to be bullys at first glance, mostly due to the fact that they tend treat other people like crap. The reason why Dally tends to treat strangers like crap, is becuase he was brough up in an incredibly rough household, being treated poorly by his father which caused him to act out and eventually get arrested at the youthful age of ten. As a result, Dally doesn;t trust many people, and you would have to be someone really special in order for him to actually care about you. For exmaple, if you have/had a rough home life, boom, Dallas would instantly instant friend.

Now, that seems to be reasonable, treat other people like crap, because you were treated like crap. But Ronnie Anne doesn't have a rough home life, she has a family that loves her and cares for her, so why is she suich a bully to epopel that aren't her family? It's quite simple, really, she suffers from stress and social anxiety. Even before she, her brother and her mother were living with their extended family, Ronnie Anne still had a lot of responsibility to handle at such a young age. With her mother being a doctor, her father seemingly absent, and her brother being a handful despite being older than her. she still seemed to have a role as the Woman of the House, with her having to make dinner for her family, doing laundry, and helping out her handful of an older brother. Does she seem to not mind all of that ressponsibility? No. BUT WHAT IF SHE DOES!? What if her treating Lincoln like a friend and punching bag is just her way of releiving stress? And if it is, it must be so constant to the point where it just became part of her personality, and shes lost other friends because of it before she met Lincoln..

2. They only have soft spots for certain people.

In The Outsiders, the only people that Dallas dioesn't treat like crap are the rest of the greasers in his clique, who he treats like family, and becomes really distraught when something bad happens to one of them. With Ronie Anne she seems to only care about her family, and Lincoln (kinda)  which is probably the reason why she seems to have a bit social anxiety when making new friends, as shown in the episode "City Slickers." This is probably due to the fact that she has never really gotten to be friends with many people due to her outside personality, but thanks to meeting people who seem to understand her, she treats them with respect and not punches. So, then, why does she treat Lincoln like a friend and a punching bag? Maybe because Lincoln reminds her of her time in Royal Woods, and since Royal Woods is her old home, and Lincoln is her old friend, she goes back to her old tactics of socializing with him, which of course, she needs to fix, because I think she really does care for Lincoln.

The reason why I wrote is becuase I wanna try and see if this makes epople understnad Ronnie Anne a little more. and because I always thought of comparing her with Dallas Winston. Let me know what you guys think in the comments below, because I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

(P.S: This may be updated later.)