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The Outsiders Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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The book The Outsiders was written by S.E. Hinton. The movie was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The book The Outsiders shows a conflict between two groups, the Greasers and the Socs. Two of the characters Ponyboy and Johnny run into trouble and have to run away from their home. They then hide out from the cops and get themselves into more trouble later in the book. Some of the differences between the book and movie are the way the movie starts, how Darry pushed Ponyboy in the movie, and how Randy never came to visit Ponyboy at home. The first difference is the way the movie starts. In the book the author talks about how Ponyboy is walking home from the movies but does not tell that it is a story until later in the end of the book. Then in the last chapter the reader sees that the book starts over again with the line, “When I stepped out into the bright …show more content…

In the book Randy, a Soc, comes to visit Ponyboy to see how he is doing and tell him what Bob, the Soc who got killed, was normally like. Then in the movie Randy does not even come to see Ponyboy. This was not an effective change because the audience does not know that Bob was not a bad guy to his friends. The viewer does not know that Randy cared enough about Bob to come and tell Ponyboy about what he was like souber. This change does not show that Bob has a different sid that is good all the movie shows him as is bad. Personally I liked the book better than the movie. The book makes almost everything more descriptive and easy to picture. When I watched the movie I would picture some things different. Like when Johnny brings the bologna back to the church and Ponyboy starts to dig threw the box. I imagined them taking out the food and spreading it out threw the church. But they kept it on the table. The movie makes parts of the book more clear but it's hard to be made clear of the scene when the part does not exist in the

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