In the beginning of the novel, S.E. Hinton wrote about Ponyboy as walking from the movies and comparing himself with Paul Newman. But in the film, he began with Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally walking to the movies. The next difference from the beginning of the story was when Cherry asked Pony to go with her to buy some popcorn and drinks for the rest as in Johnny, Marcie, and the other two socs which also was a difference because those socs didn’t appear to talk to Cherry and Marcie. Next difference was inside the store to buy snacks and drinks there was happing an argument which wasn’t in the book as well. Third, difference was when Pony and Johnny were leaving to take Johnny to his house and both of them saw Johnny’s parents arguing. Which didn’t happen in the book, in the book Ponyboy and Johnny were at the lot before going to their houses.
Second part of the differences is how the fight started and ended when and after killing Bob. The difference was how it started because the socs came and found Pony and Johnny. Then they surrounded them and got Pony becuase he spitted them in there shoes and offended the socs when …show more content…
In this book I learned that no matter who you are, you don’t need a label or nickname to be guilty or to be treated differently, just because of the nickname or label they, people put on you. In the end of the novel. I loved how S.E. Hinton ended the story with going back to Ponyboy starting to write the essay because he was remembering how Dally acted so cold hearted forward everyone when he got out of jail but he believed that he couldn’t be happy no more because of such bad memories he had. But they prove Dally wrong but also it was to late because he got