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Differences Between The Outsiders Movie And Book

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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

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