The Outsiders Essay On April 24, 1967, S.E. Hinton published the book The Outsiders. Then sixteen years later director Francis Ford Coppola’s movie version of The Outsiders was released on March 23, 1983. The book is about a young boy named Ponyboy who lives with his two older brothers because his parents were killed in a automobile accident. Ponyboy goes through a lot of tough times because he is a part of this group known as the Greasers. The Greasers are a group that are known for being from the poor side of town and the Socs are the rich kids on the other side of town. Throughout the entire book the two groups kept fighting and then something terrible happened that changed Ponyboy’s life forever. The movie and book have many differences …show more content…
Ponyboy is in this state because he is devastated that his two friends, Johnny and Dally died. Johnny was a young nice kid who was the guinea pig of the group and Dally is this real tough boy that has been through a lot of hard times including prison. In the book, Ponyboy says “I had it. I stopped him. He was looking at me strangely. I had the knife. I killed Bob” (Hinton 165) and as the readers know, Ponyboy didn’t kill Bob. This shows that Ponyboy is really confused and is trying to think that Johnny isn’t dead. Then in the movie it didn’t show Ponyboy in this terrible mental state at all. Since the book mentioned Ponyboy in this state, the readers got to see that Ponyboy really cared about Johnny. Then with the movie the audience didn’t get to see how much Ponyboy cared about Johnny, so that could change their perspective on Ponyboy. Therefore this was a good thing that the book mentioned because it showed that Johnny was really important to Ponyboy and Ponyboy didn’t want to think that Johnny was …show more content…
The movie didn’t show anything like what the booked talked about. After the trial, Ponyboy went back to school but was slacking off on his homework and grades. One day Ponyboy's English teacher talked to him after class. Ponyboy’s English teacher just told him that he was failing the class and if Ponyboy came up with a theme for the semester he would pass him with a C for the semester. Then later that night Ponyboy wrote his theme. It is very bad that the movie didn’t show this. This is one of the most important things in the book because Ponyboy’s theme that he wrote, turned into the book The Outsiders. So with the movie not showing Ponyboy talking to his teacher, the audience didn’t know what Ponyboy was writing about at the end of the book. Therefore the director of The Outsiders skipped a very important scene in the movie and the book did a good job describing it, giving the readers knowledge on what Ponyboy was writing about at the end of the
“The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, is centered around Ponyboy’s path to maturity and the life lessons he learns along the way. The novel follows Ponyboy, a greaser, and his gang’s conflict with the Socials, a rival gang. In it, he learns to not judge people hastily and reject gang mentality. Ponyboy also loses his innocence. The following paragraphs will explore his growth throughout “The Outsiders”.
Have you ever met someone that you absolutely hate but they actually like you and always try to be nice to you? If you have, good for you! If you haven’t, still good for you.Anyways, on to what the book is about. The Outsiders is about a gang called “The Greasers” that have a rivalry with a gang from the West side called “The Socs”. The Outsiders is told from the perspective of a 14 year old named Ponyboy Curtis (a member of the greasers). Ponyboy enjoys reading and watching movies alone unlike the other Greasers. So, what exactly happens in the novel? Well, one day, Ponyboy comes home late. Darry (Ponyboy’s and Soda’s older brother) lashes out on Ponyboy causing him to run away. That same night, Johnny kills a Soc because he was trying to
The Outsiders was about the greasers and the Socs. The Socs always jump the greasers, one day Johnny fights back, he ends up killing Bob. Johnny and Ponyboy run away to a church and hide until Dally comes and gets them. They then see the church was burning, Ponyboy and Johnny run into it to save the kids inside. Johnny and Dally get injured, Ponyboy is okay. The greasers win the rumble, the Socs will stay out of the greasers territory, Johnny passes away from his injuries, Dally robs a store, the police shoot him, and he does not survive the shots. In the end Ponyboy decides to regather his life and he starts with writing his theme for his ELA class. The book The Outsiders book, the
Later, Johnny conveys his guilt to Ponyboy when he says: “‘There sure is a lot of blood in people.’”(Hinton 74), nearly quoting Shakespeare in Macbeth. In a later conversation with Johnny, Ponyboy gets thinking about this new world he has been thrust into. In the text he says: “I liked my books and clouds and sunsets. Dally was so real he scared me.”(Hinton 76) This shows how Ponyboy likes when the hero can beat the villain and get a pretty sunset at the end. But now Ponyboy has to deal with the real-world effects of violence, and he doesn’t like it. This marks one of Ponyboy’s first major changes of his mindset on violence.
Secondly, Ponyboy did not get sick, resulting no conversation or any connection with Ponyboy and Darry. In the book, the conversation helped Ponyboy and Darry get closer, and helped form a better relationship between the two brothers. The film included Ponyboy being sick, but not to the point where Darry was worried sick and wanted to talk to Pony. The cutting of this moment was not needed, because from the movie's point of view, it shows that Darry and Ponyboy have no bonding moments, but in the book Ponyboy and Darry have this kind of brother relationship without
The Outsiders is a young adult novel written by S.E. Hinton. The book was first published in 1967 by The Viking Press. Today, the book is published under Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group. The book has a total of a hundred and eighty pages. The Outsiders fits in the genre of young-adult fiction because it relates to teens on emotional levels. Like Ponyboy, the teen protagonist of the story, teens relate to his emotional growth as he tries to piece his life together. The story follows a rivalry in a socially divided community. The Greasers are a gang of teenage boys who live on the east side of town; the wrong side of town. Their rivals, the Socials, better known as the Socs; come from the wealthier side of town. The two groups are always head to head with one another, seeking a fight. Ponyboy belongs to the Greasers. He is the youngest out of the three brothers in his family. Apart from his brothers, Ponyboy hangs out with Johnny, Dallas, Two-Bit and others who are also Greasers. The rivalry between the two groups heightens when Johnny kills Bob, a Soc, in an attempt to save Ponyboy from drowning. In this book report, I will go through the meaning of this book and my opinion on the story itself.
The 1967 novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is about the social outcasts; the Greasers and their rivalry against the high class Socs. In the beginning of the book the characters values and attitudes are revealed to the reader through the point of view of Ponyboy. As the book progresses and the lives of the characters take a turn for the worse there is a significant impact on the characters resulting in an alteration of their values and attitudes. Ponyboy, Dally and Johnny experience these changes due to the death of Bob the Soc and the chain of events that follow.
“The Outsiders” is by far one of my favorite books of all time. I think it’s a great story that tells about how a fourteen-year-old boy overcomes many challenges and learns how to get through each of them individually. “The Outsiders” is a story about a boy named Ponyboy that lives with his two older brothers, and they have a group of friends, called the Greasers. One day Pony gets upset with his older brother, Darry, and goes to a park with his friend Johnny to calm down. At the park, a group of kids, called Socs, come and start drowning Pony. Johnny gets scared and doesn’t know what to do so he kills one of the Socs. Soon after, Pony and Johnny decide to run away so they wouldn’t have to deal with
The movie is fairly similar to the book except for a few exceptions. One of the main things is that the movie is less detailed and is faster paced. Another thing is that pony never went to the hospital after the fire and didn't have a concussion. When Dallas was driving to the hospital with Pony and he got pulled over by the police who was on a motorcycle. While At the hospital Johnny’s mom comes to visit him but Pony and Dallas don't talk to her. When Dally leaves he goes and robs a store and the police are after him. Then when the police catch him he raises his unloaded handgun and the police shoot him. He gets shot once and does a few rolls stands up and gets shot more. The gang goes home after finding Dally and Ponyboy starts writing the “Outsiders”.
In the book, it specifically shows Ponyboy starting off by walking out of a movie theater thinking of how he wished to be the star that was in the movie he watched but then gets jumped by the Socs. They have him pinned down, but the gang comes and rescue him. There, Ponyboy explains to the reader how each gang member is like and then they take him home (Hinton 9). As the story continues, Ponyboy and Johnny are backed up against a
The movie “the Outsiders” is very different from the book, written by S. E. Hinton. The very first scene in the movie shows Ponyboy writing in his journal the very first words in the book, “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight…” (The Outsiders). The book does not show or say in the beginning of the book that Pony was writing in his journal. Almost right after that scene it barely shows a slight argument/fight between greasers and socs. The book tells us that the fight was more serious and Ponyboy got hurt pretty bad, when in the movie all Pony gets is a little scar. After Johnny gets hurt when the old church catches on fire he ends up dying. Dally, another greaser that is part of the main group of friends, ends up shoplifting because he really cared about Johnny. Dally was eventually shot and killed by the police. The scene in the movie where Dally is in the store, thinking about shoplifting, is not in the book. “He’s just robbed a grocery store and the cops are after him.” (Hinton 153). The whole scene of Dally in the store is not in the book. Although there are many differences between the movie and the book, “the Outsiders”, there are also many similarities.
Ever read a novel then watch the movie about the novel? Were the two made exactly the same or were some events or people different? It is alway interesting to compare the writers work to the director's work. The novel The Outsiders was written by S.E. Hinton and was published in 1967. The movie was made about 15 years later. The novel takes place in Oklahoma in the 1960’s in a town that is socially divided into gangs determined by their economic classes. One gang is made up of group of teenage guys known as “Greasers” who wear leather jackets, get into trouble, and are “tuff.” “Tuff” means you are cool or sharp looking. The other gang is called “Socs”and is short for socials. A group of teenage guys who wear preppy clothes and drive expensive cars, and are always drinking. These two gangs are constantly fighting each other. The main character is Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen year old, living with his two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop after their parents were killed in a car accident the past year. The brothers are always hanging around their gang of friends; Steve, Two - Bit, Johnny, and Dally, who all grew up together and are like family. They all face many hardships of their own struggles between right and wrong in a society in which they believe they are Outsiders. There are many similarities and differences between the novel and the movie.
Having everything happen at the park, none of that would’ve happened If Ponyboy or Johnny didn’t run away from their homes. They could’ve stayed at other friends homes or asked for help from Dally. By killing another man Johnny died because he was always trying to help everything and save everyone. Johnny said as Ponyboy woke up near a dead and bloody body “I killed him”. This relates to my thesis because later on risking his life to save someone else really bites him back. Life isn’t always about saving other people, sometimes you have to save yourself
Fighting in a vacant lot, a church on fire, heroes saving kids and a stabbing in the park keeps you wanting to know the full story. The Outsiders is a story about how the Greasers get in fights with the Socs.The three brothers are in the Greaser gang. These three kids come together as a family. Although the book said ponyboy's parents died in a accident in the movie they died in a train crash.Johnny parents were both in the movie and book because the book said how bad they were and the movie show them fighting.Although in the book it had the horse that belongs to sodapop it’s name is mickey.Cherry Valance didn’t like dally in the movie or the book.Johnny and ponyboy are different because one has different hairdo then the other.Darry and ponyboy
Are things tough all over? The book The Outsiders written by S. E. Hinton, translates prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence, and oppression by using strong characters, symbolism, and compelling events. The Outsiders is a book about and narrated by a fourteen year old, greaser named Ponyboy Curtis, who lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darry after their parents that died in a car accident. This book takes the reader through the world of a teenage “hoodlum” written by a woman, from a young boy’s point of view. During a small brawl at the park one of the Soc gets killed by one of Ponyboy’s friends, Johnny. Which sends Ponyboy and Johnny into hiding.