S. E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders'

S.E. Hinton’s World Famous Book “The Outsiders” was published on April 24, 1967. She started the book when she was 15 and finished it a year later. The book is about a group of teenagers who are dealing with Bad social situations at school and in the neighborhood. Because over 14 million copies of the book were sold, Director Francis Coppola helped S.E. Hinton bring her book to life. Doing so, she told the Director how she wanted it to go. To my surprise the movie came out almost exactly the same to the book. There are similarities and differences in the movie and the book and these are to now be discussed.
In the book many details are discussed that are not shown/ talked about in the movie.In the book Ponyboy starts of at the movie theater. After that he is mugged by the socs. Lots of details are provided to show the build of the person and features. The book, to me, was better than the movie. The reason for this is because the book provides more information to enhance a better picture of the story in my mind. The outsiders book said that ponyboy fell asleep on the train ride to the church. While ponyboy …show more content…
All of the characters in the book appeared in the movie, The boys go to the nightly double and meet cherry and marcia. They soon become friends. After that Johnny and Ponyboy fall asleep in the lot, pony then gets hit by Darry for not using his head. Johnny then saves ponyboy by killing the soc. The have dally help them leave town to a safe house. Dally comes to the safehouse to help them more. The fire starts at the church and they all go to save the kids trapped inside. Johnny his hurt badly and goes to the hospital, Ponyboy gets reunited with his family and Dally is hurt too. The next night the Rumble goes on after the Greasers win Johnny dies. Dally technically kills himself over Johnny's death and that is how the story