The Outsiders Movie And Book Comparison Essay

So nowadays a lot of books old and new are getting movies and maybe even movies are getting books. But what we want to be looking at is what they put in or what they left out. We're looking at the compare and contrast of things. In this case we are talking about The Outsiders movie compared to the book and vice versa.

In the book Two-bit was always making jokes and having a good time. I think Two-bit in the movie is similar to Two-bit in the book because he was funny and knew when to get serious. He also seemed like he was a life of the party kind of guy in the book and in the movie, too. Two-bit in the movie may have acted a little like Two-bit in the book but there were some different between. Two-bit in the movie seemed rude to a lot of people even though in the book he was only rude to the Soc’s.

Another thing about the book is it seemed like it could have happened to someone out in the world. When the characters were sad or happy it seemed as if it were real and they weren’t just characters in a book. However in the movie it seemed different, because it didn’t seem to be as real as the book …show more content…
In the book it’s because he robs a store but it doesn’t give any details about what happened when he robbed it. In the book, when he gets shot by the cops it says that he was shot under a streetlight and all the cops shot him at once. It also says that he was dead before he hits the ground. There are many similarities between when Dally dies in the movie and when he dies in the book. In both of them it seemed as if he wanted to die and he was being chased by the cops because he robbed a store. The cops shot him because he pulled a gun even if it wasn’t loaded. Some of the differences are that in the movie he got shot one at a time by the cops and he didn’t die instantly. He rolled down a hill, so unlike in the movie he wasn’t under a streetlight, said Ponyboys name and then he