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The Outsiders Movie And Book Differences

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Comparing the differences in the book of “ The outsiders” to the movie there are a few things that have been changed. There is a significant difference with one of the deaths. A few situations are also changed . Such as the rumble and how the boys enter the hospital to see one of their friends.The intro and ending of both the book and the movies are different.There are scenes that weren’t added to the movie. The author, S.E Hinton, and the director Francis Ford Coppola deviated which parts were not as valuable and chose to cut some unimportant scenes.

The difference between how they show Dally’s death was not as significant as it was showed in the book. Dally robbed the store shortly after Johnny died in the hospital. When the rumble was over Dally and Ponyboy go to see Johnny at the hospital. When they get there the doctor in the book said that they couldn’t see him. In the movie they just go in without threatening the doctor. In the book Dally threatens the doctor with Two-bits switchblade and the doctor said” Okay you can see him, …show more content…

In the book the socs. and the greasers are lined up waiting for someone to step up to begin the fight. In the movie the way this plays out is that Darry and the socs., that Darry knows, stands there already to start the fight. Before this happened the reason Ponyboy and Johnny run away was different. The reason Ponyboy ran in the book was because Darry hit him. Although in the book Darry pushes him and then Ponyboy runs out of the house to Johnny. Going to after the church burns when they were riding in the ambulance was the same. Dally’s room was the same when they went to see him. The nurse in the room was heard to be the author of the book. Even though this movie was very good, the introduction and the ending of the book compared to the movie it was different, because Ponyboy was writing his book at the end of the book and they put that in the beginning and the

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