The Outsiders Movie And Book Comparison 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

The novel has more detail than the movie because in the novel it showed more of the characters backstories it doesnt talk about Ponyboy’s school or about Dally’s past life was like before he moved and how Johnny got beat up by the Soc while the movie skipped all of that. Another is that in the novel you can hear the character’s thoughts you could hear what Ponyboy was thinking throughout the whole story and because the novel was in first person and the movie was in third person so you couldn't really hear what the character was thinking in the movie.

There are some similarities between “the Outsiders” movie and novel. For example The greasers winning the rumble. “...but he was grinning happily because the Socs were running,”(Hinton 145). The rules of the rumble were hands only and who ever runs first lost and the Socs ran first. As well as Ponyboy waking up next the fountain with Bob lying in front of him dead and Johnny completely shocked. “I was lying on the pavement beside the fountain, coughing and gasping,” (Hinton 56). This shows the reader Ponyboy waking up after trying to be drowned. “...Bob, the handsome Soc, was lying in the moonlight, doubled up and still. A dark pool was growing from him…”(Hinton 56). After Ponyboy wakes up and catches him breath he looks over to see Bob Sheldon

Like one I thought was important was how Darry shoved Pony in the movie and didn't hit him like the book said it happened. I felt like that was important because they both showed a size of violence, but I felt like shoving Pony showed more angry anger and not a I hate you anger. I thought that was important because it did show that Darry wasn't mad and that he was just fed up with it and scared/paranoid of losing another person he loved. Another major difference I noticed was that was that near the end of the movie was that when Johnny died and Dally rushed out of the hospital on his way out he pointed a gun at a doctor, and was talking about how it wasn't fair and Jhonny was the only thing he loved. I thought this one was really important because it really showed how much he cared for Johnny and that he was the only thing he loved. And when he died Dally had nothing to lose and broke and it showed his true anger. Those were the major differences I noticed between the book and movie and why I thought that they were the most

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”.

“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong,” captures the essence of a bestselling novel that has resonated within the hearts of many around the world. The Outsiders, written by S.E Hinton, is a coming-of-age story about a group of teen boys struggling in a fight between social classes during the 1960’s. It is an emotional and compelling story that was eventually adapted into a movie. The movie has been critically acclaimed and watched by people of all ages. Even though the movie was based off the book and contains close similarities, there are some differences regarding the characters, the plot, and the themes between the two.

A few similarities between the movie and book are that the movie still has the complete Greaser gang Pony, Johnny, Soda, Darry, Dally, Two-Bit and Steve. They still have some of the more sad part like when Johnny and Dally die. There is still lots of conflict between the Greasers and the Soc’s. There is still the situation where Johnny

They may think the book’s ending drags out too long and includes an unnecessary storyline about Ponyboy’s failing grades while the movie ends after the exciting action is over. However, this opinion is false. In the book, Ponyboy becomes sick and distracted after the deaths of two of his friends. His grades slip, and he is assigned a paper in English class to pass. He decides to write about his experiences to help other teenagers and to bring attention to the problems in Tulsa’s teenagers, thinking, “It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell [other teenagers in my situation that there was still good in the world] before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then...It was important to me” (179). The whole purpose of the book is Ponyboy’s desire to share his story in the hopes of helping other teenagers. He wants to make people see how hard life is for the Greasers, and even for the Socs. Without this key plot point, the story becomes just that: a story. It loses its mission to resonate with young people who feel like outcasts. In the movie, Ponyboy writes his experiences in a diary, meaning he has no intentions to share them or change anything like he does in the book. The film’s ending may seem less “boring” or “cheesy”, but it cuts out the purpose of the

Many of the characters in “The Outsiders” have to make hard decisions during the chapters of the book; from Johnny fatally stabbing Bob, to Darry and Ponyboy deciding to chase after Soda, or just deciding what drink to get at the movies all are important. "It's not my idea of a good time to sit in a drive-in and watch people get

Both novels contrast in the area of adult involvement. In “The Outsiders”, there is little to no parental involvement, adults are either dead or completely negligent of their children. The young boys

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.

The Outsiders is a book that changed the style of young adult writers because it went off from the genre that young adult writer were using during that time period. The reader sees the everyday problems that teenagers were going through, “I can’t take much more

The book and the film were both simular, and yet different in many ways. An example would be, in the film, Ponyboy was walking to the drive-in and meeting Cherri and Marcia. Although in the book, Ponyboy began his journey by telling the readers about his experience about being jumped by the Socs and being threatened. The director probably had some options to pick from to leave out from the movie, and the director chosed this to leave out. Leaving out the part where Ponyboy was jumped was an effective move because without the experience Ponyboy was lost and helpless because he did not know what to do when he and Johnny got cornered in the park by Bob and other Socs.

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.

In the beginning of “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy only likes a few people but in the end, he realizes that he judged people unfairly. In the beginning, he only appreciated Johnny (the second youngest gang member), Soda (the middle child in his family) and Two-Bit (a wisecracking member of the gang). He dislikes Dallas (the most criminal of the gang) and Steve and thinks that his oldest brother, Darry, dislikes him. He also believes that all Socs are bad. His judgments are first brought into question when he meets Cherry Valence, a female Soc. Ponyboy, referring to her and her friend wrote, “It seemed funny to me that Socs -if these girls were any example - were just like us.” (37) Pony’s views on the Socs evolve again when he talks to Randy. After talking to Randy, Pony thinks, “Socs are just guys after all. Things are rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too." (118) By the end of the novel, Pony does not think all Socs are good because there are Socs like Bob, who jumped Johnny and Pony, but he realizes that people should be