The novel and the book are similar in tons of ways!! At the beginning of the film, Ponyboy (one of the main roles in the movie) walked out into the bright light out of the movie theater, which happened in the novel, and movie. When Cherry comes into the movie she has red hair, and green eyes, which is also the case in the book. They cut Ponyboy's hair and made it blonde, they also cut Johnny's hair to make it shorter with matches the book. When Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally got back from Dairy Queen, the church …show more content…
At the top of the movie, Ponyboy got jumped, but in the movie it never showed Pony getting jumped. In the film it was North and the Southside, in the book it was the East and West.
When Ponyboy came home late, in the film Darry pushed him, but in the book Darry slapped Pony. Another one of the differences, is when Pony and Johnny were trying to find the church Pony asked a farmer, but in the film there was no farmer. In the novel Johnny and Pony kept going outside when Dally strictly told them not to, but in the cinema they only went outside once. In the book, during the rumble it said Darry got punched, but in the movie Pony got punched. When Johnny and Ponyboy went to the park, the videotape put Pony spitting in Bob's face, but nobody recalls Pony doing that in the book. Last, but not least, in the book everyone called Johnny “ JohnnyCake”, but in the movie they just called him “ Johnny ”. As you can tell there are a lot of differences!
The “Outsiders” is an amazing movie, even though it not exactly like the book. The novel and the tape are different in many ways, but more differences than similarities. The movie did have all the same characters, the fire at the church, and many