The Outsiders Movie Essay

The story The Outsiders are an amazing story in which takes place in the 50’s to 60’s era. The story is about the Greasers and the Socs which were two different social groups. The Greasers are like the criminals and the hoods, and the Socs are the rich kids with fancy cars and wear button up shirts. The story is based around a kid named Ponyboy who lives with his two other brothers since their parents died. One day Ponyboy and Johnny, who is a kid that hangs in the Greaser’s gang, go walking in the park until a group of Socs jumps them. A group of the Socs tried drowning Ponyboy, so Johnny kills one of the Socs for self defense. Johnny and Ponyboy then run away from the law and hide in an old abandoned church. One day they come back to the church and it was on fire, so they went into the church and saved the kids. Johnny ended up dying in the hospital from the severe wounds, but Ponyboy survived. Johnny gave ponyboy a note telling him to “stay gold”. The story is about keeping your innocence. The movie and the book have some similarities …show more content…
The first thing is that in the fight between the Socs and the Greasers all of a sudden right when they start fighting it starts to rain really hard. In the movie, the parents get killed by a train, but in the book the way of how their parents died is unknown. Two-Bit makes fun of the Socs while Ponyboy and Randy talk privately in the car about Randy not going to the brawl. Ironically, the end of the story is shown in the beginning of the movie. This is a little peculiar, but only occurs in the movie. Throughout the whole movie the Socs are referred to as the South Side and the Greasers are the North Side. In the book, they are referred to as the West Side Socs and East Side Greasers. This is a major difference in the movie. There is a bus near the site of the burning church which is only in the movie. There are a couple of small differences in the movie, but not