Comparing The Outsiders Book And Movie

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The Outsiders book and movie are both good but the book is better in my opinion.
The book and movie are both the same in some ways but the movie goes by faster.
The movie has some the things that it doesn't show like in the book. Although the I like the book the movie was great to.
Both the book and movie show the church burn’s and them saving the kids. They're both similar but the movie doesn’t show things the book says.
The main characters are the greasers but the real main character is Ponyboy.
The soces are the west side rich kids who jump the greasers.
There are more similarities to go over but it says to list one similarity.
Ponyboy Curtis

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