The Outsiders Movie Vs Book Essay

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The Outsiders
The Outsiders is based on a group of friends who are a group called the Greasers and they have a rival group called the Socs. It’s the time of book that keeps you at the edge of your seat at end of each chapter. It’s based of two groups the Greasers the not so rich tough guys versus the rich fancy groups. It’s a book that has want every person who loves to read books good story, death and a good plot. They hate each other because is because a specific part in the story were the Socs really hate the Greasers.
The characters in the Outsiders they have to deal with death, family and fighting the rich. Johnny is the gang’s pet he is the one that everybody cares about and has been raised by a bad family who beated him and didn't
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The book actually had more than the ever had in the book like it had Pony got jumped by some Socs and got beat up, but in the movie in did not have that in the movie. You could compare the movie in the book by the using something like a T-chart. In the movie the person who wrote the book was in the movie but not in the book so I thought that was cool. It has the movie in front of you, but in the book you could picture it in your head so that's why I thought the movie was better than the book. I would rate this book a solid 5 because it had a good plot and had good details in the book and it had some good parts in the book. This book would definitely be in my top 5 books. I thought this book was good because when Johnny passed away in the Hospital his final words were “Stay Gold Ponyboy Stay Gold”. The book was excellent because it had some people in the book that you never think that would die, but they ended up dying. It left me wanted to know what happened next like what happens in the next

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