The Outsiders Movie Vs Book

The Outsiders was written in the 1960’s to describe the struggle between the upper and lower classes in that time period. S. E. Hinton, the author of the book, wrote it when she was in high school and published the book when she was a freshman at the University of Tulsa. She became known as “The Voice of the Youth”. This pressure brought her writer’s block that lasted three years. Hinton broke the block by writing two pages a day, which led to her next novel, That Was Then, This Is Now. She has since written various other novels and many different awards. The Outsiders remained popular, and Francis Ford Coppola directed a movie based off of the book in the 1980’s. The book The Outsiders is both similar and different to the movie version, but …show more content…
It discusses how Johnny was beat up: “Johnny’s face was cut up and bruised and swollen, and there was a wide gash from his temple to his cheekbone” (Hinton 32). This experience gave Johnny a scared and cautious demeanor. The book version also talks about Soda’s relationship to his girlfriend Sandy. Once Pony and Johnny get home, Pony is required to go to court, not only about the murder, but the possibility of him going to a boy’s home. All of these points are mentioned in the …show more content…
Both the book and the movie are amazing and recommended, however the book outranks the movie in the those ways. The book contains considerably more details than the book, which makes reading it much more interesting and relatable. There is more emotion and fewer gaps in the plot, because every aspect is discussed in considerable detail in the book. As with all movies, you cannot hear the character’s thoughts, so you are unable to earn a deep understanding of the character. These way make the book much more entertaining to the reader than the