The Outsiders Comparison Essay

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The Outsiders Movie Compared To The Book The Outsiders. A heart touching story of the young Ponyboy Curtis, and his life as a “Grease” or Greaser. Stated in both the book and the movie is that Pony and his gang have a rivalry: The Socs. Pony and his friend Johnny get into some trouble involving the Socs and runaway thinking they committed a crime when really they were using self defense. The Greaser gang endured a couple losses of it's members and they gain a bit of triumph after beating the cold, hard Socs in a rumble or fight. This gave them hope that people might not see them as just hoods, greasers or trash, but as normal human beings. Some People think the book is very different from the movie. But what those people are missing, are also the pairs similarities. …show more content…

Though, it has quite a few differences than the movie, which made shortly after the book was released. In the book, it's hard for most people to completely visualize a character, when in the movie you see the characters acting the story. A few other differences are as follows; Darry slaps Pony (Hinton 50) , It begins with Pony stepping outside (Hinton 1), Pony is more descriptive in the story and talks more, Each character's personality is described (Hinton 2-12) , and that Soda’s girlfriend is mentioned and talked about. (Hinton 111&174) The book by far had more details than the movie. Though, they were small details, they were still

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