Outsiders Book and Movie Comparison Essay

The book and the mental picture of the Out human facers are two very different stories. The book has so much more detail and and then(prenominal) the impression. The pictorial matter is not the most detailed but it does get its point across. There are may similarities and also many differences between the two the book is by far more interesting and more detailed then the movie. I enjoyed the book a lot and the movies a lot but the movie was missing a lot. A a few(prenominal) similarities between the movie and book are that the movie tacit has the complete Greaser gang Pony, Johnny, Soda, Darry, Dally, Two-Bit and Steve.They still have some of the more sad part worry when Johnny and Dally die. There is still lots of conflict between the Greasers and the Socs. There is still the piazza where Johnny kills one of the Socs and Johnny and Ponyboy both skip town. They still go to the church and incubate off for 5 days. They still save the little kids from the burning church ho use. They still have the muttering and they also still win it. The settings are both still the same they both take outer space in Tulsa Oklahoma in the mid 1960s. They both still have the same conflicts and the same out comes to the conflicts.Both the book and the movies are very much a uniform. There are still a few differences like in the book, there is a rich west side and a poor eastern side. In the movie, there is a rich south side Soc and a poor north side Greaser. Darry doesnt treat Pony as bad in the movie as he did in the book . Pony takes the death of Johnny and Dally a little less harder the movie then he did in the book. The movie dosent mention Sodapops horse Mickey Mouse. Sodapop and Dally arent blonds like they are in the book, instead they are brunettes in the movie.The church that Ponyboy and Johnny run away to isnt on a hill it is just out there. The movie also never mentions sodapops girl friend. In the book Soda gives Ponyboy money while in the book he didnt. Also the book was scripted in Ponyboys perspective and the movie was not, the movie was written in bothones perspective. In the movie the Socs were from the South instead of the West. Ponyboy doesnt smoke as much in the movie as they verbalise so in the book. Ponyboy Curtis in the fourteen-year-old boy that explains the story in both the book and the movie, and also the youngest of the greasers.Ponyboy is ery prehensile compared to the rest of the gang he is most defenatly the smartest to them all. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his two brformer(a)s Darry and Sodapop in both the book and movie. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense in the book more so then in the movie, but Ponyboy is a much brighter then his brother takes him for. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love but in the movie they dont focus on his train as much. He matures oer the course of the book a nd the movie both.Darrel Curtis Ponyboys oldest brother. Darrel, known as Darry, both in the book and in the movie. He is a twenty-year-old greaser who is raising Ponyboy because their parents have died in a car crash. Strong, athletic, and intelligent, Darry has quit school in the book and in the movie. He works two jobs to hold the family together. One of the leader of the greasers, he becomes an parent role model for Ponyboy. He also makes good chocolate cake, which he and his brothers eat every day for breakfast in the book but the movie really does not mention it. The other greasers call him Superman. Sodapop Curtis Ponyboys fun, intergetic, handsome brother. Sodapop is the middle Curtis boy. Ponyboy admires Sodapops good looks and charm. Sodapop is really a great psyche in both the book and the movie his plans are to marry Sandy , a greaser girl. Two-Bit Mathews The jokester of Ponyboys group. Two-Bit, whose real name is Keith, is a wise-cracking greaser who regularly shopli ft he gets in douse a lot more in the movie more so then in the book. He loves his sleek black-handled switchblade so much in both the book and the movie. Dallas Winston the toughest hood in Ponyboys group of greasers.Dallas, known as Dally, is a big bad teen who used to run with gangs in New York shown both in the book and the movie. He has an elfin face and icy blue eye and, unlike the others he do not put grease in his white-blond hair. Dallys reddened tendencies make him more dangerous than the other greasers in both the book and the movie, and he takes pride in his criminal record more so in the book then the movie. Sandy is Sodapops daughter in both the book and the movie. Sandy is pregnant with another boys child and moves to Florida to live with her grandmother in both the book and the movie.Like the other greaser girls, Sandy only is shown in the book and the movie when the boys mention her. red Valance Bobs girlfriend, she is a Soc cheerleader. When one night Ponyboy m eets her at the movies in both the book and the movie. Cherrys real name is Sheri, but people call her Cherry because of her red hair. Ponyboy and Cherry have so much in common, and Ponyboy feels comfortable talking to her more so mentioned in the book then in the movie. This is why I say the book of the Outsiders is far ruin then the movie. The movie is missing lots of detail and the book is far more interesting then the movie.