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The Outsiders Movie and Book Compare and Contrast Essay

The Outsiders is mainly about the separation between two gangs of teens living in Windrixville who think the grass is always greener on the other side. The two gangs are the Socs and the Greasers and the only difference between them is the Socs have a lot of money and the Greasers are poor. The main characters are the three brothers, Sodapop, Ponyboy, and Darry Curtis, and then Johnny Kincade. The three bothers are living in the poor end of town without their parents who died in a carcrash. Johnny is an abused child who is the gang's pet because of his brutal parent and a Soc named Bob jumped him. Socs feel they are better than Greasers and sometimes when not so many Greasers are around they jump them and hurt them usually pretty bad. One day Ponyboy, the youngest brother came home late and the oldest brother, Darry hit him. Ponyboy ran away with Johnny and got jumped by the Socs. Bob, the Soc was drowning Ponyboy so Johnny killed Bob with his switchblade.

They had to run from the fuzz (that is what they call the police.) They ran to get help from Dally who gave him a gun and also told him where to hide. Johnny and Ponyboy took Dally's advice and hid in the old church in the country. The two lived in the church and learned a lot about each other's feelings. They read Gone with the Wind to past the time and created a special bond. Dally came and got them and they went out. Then, when they came back to the church and found it had caught fire. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally overheard a women in a schoolteacher saying that a couple children were missing and had been playing around the church. Ponyboy ran after him quickly followed my Johnny and Dally. They ran into the church to save the children.

The trio saved the children but Johnny got seriously hurt and Dally got a broken arm. After Ponyboy got out of the hospital he went to visit Johnny. He learned from the doctor that Johnny would be paralyzed if he lived. The Socs and the Greasers wanted to end this nonsense between them by having a huge fight which they call a rumble. It was a long match but the Greasers won. They ran to tell Johnny and he died on the trip.

Three similarities between the movie and the story are they both have therumble, Johnny died, and Dally got shot by the fuzz. In the story the described the rumble and in the movie they showed the rumble. Johnny died in the hospital in both the book and the movie. The showed in the movie Dally getting shot by the fuzz and in the book they described Dally was dead before he hit the ground.

Three differences from the book and movie is that it was raining during the rumble, hey didn't show Ponyboy failing in English, and in the movie they never showed the trial. The book never said that it rained during the rumble. The didn't show Ponyboy failing English but they do show him writing his essay but they never knew the reason he was writing it. The movie never showed the trial Ponyboy had to go to.

I preferred the book way over the movie because the book was detailed and gave me very vivid pictures. I like the way the book describes each character in such detail that I got to know them. The scenery described was easy to picture and making me feel like I was actually there.

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