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The Outsiders Comparison

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“The Outsiders” Compare and Contrast Essay In the movie and book “The Outsiders” a group of greasers live their lives fighting with soc’s, stealing, and causing trouble but, one day it all changes. One night Pony and Johnny meet Cherry Valance ,a soc,. Cherry tells Pony how different and hard their lives are compared to the greasers. Later that night Johnny and Pony are jumped by a few soc’s. Johnny kills one to save Pony from dying. Dally then sends them away so they don’t get in trouble. While at the church Dally comes back for them. When they go to get there stuff the church caught on fire while children from a local school were in it. Pony and Johnny save the kids but, Johnny gets burned bad from the fire. A rumble takes place for Johnny as their revenge towards the socs. The greasers and soc’s are put in a situation where they revert back to violence. In both the the movie and book you can see obvious differences. Like in every movie they miss out pieces from the book, character's physical appearance is sometimes different, and it’s not as elaborated as the book. …show more content…

The scenes are more elaborated. When Ponyboy gets jumped the author really put detail into the situation. “He had on a madras shirt. I can still see it. Blue Madras.” (Hinton pg 18.) She also described each Soc and greaser as you met them. Unlike the movie when you meet a character and sometimes you don’t know their name. In the book you see more of the relationship between Soda and PonyBoy. Like when PonyBoy and Soda are laying in bed they are talking personally about how Soda wants to marry Sandy. The book is also longer. Most of it is in the movie but, when you're reading it there are obvious places when a chapter is twice as long. In the movie a lot of things are different but, when you read the book and observe there isn’t that much

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