The Outsiders: Movie or Book?

I like the movie in many ways, but I also have to say I enjoyed the movie as well.
I do prefer the book because it gives us more information about Sodapop and Darry’s relationship with Ponyboy and Dallas’ relationship with Johnny. I also liked how it gives us a better ending and keeps us interested to the very end. I think the ending of the book is better because it shows what happened after all the trouble with Johnny and Dallas. It tells the readers that even though this is all over, Ponyboy might not ever be the same with all the horrible things that have happened and that kick to his head. It also makes us want to read more and when the book ends, it’s like, “But, I want to know what happened with Ponyboy!” I think the book is very well written and explains and shows so much more than what is read. What I mean by that is, the words have so much meaning and it gives the readers a visual of what is going on in the story even though it is all written down in words.

The movie was good because I could see all the characters and places. I liked how the director chose to change certain things in the movie or add things to make the movie make sense. An example of this is when Ponyboy and Johnny are at the movie with Cherry and Marcia and Tim Sheppard comes to the boys and asked where Dallas is because he slashed his tires. This didn’t happen in the book because it already explains earlier that Dallas did that, but in the movie chose not too so they added that character into that scene to give us an understanding of Tim and Dallas’ relationship. I didn’t like, however, how much that was taken out of the movie.
I enjoyed the rumble more in the movie because it wasn’t in a first person view of Ponyboy, we saw the whole bunch of boys fighting and could make out who’s winning and how a rumble would look like.

Overall, I think I like the book much better because it’s so much more detailed and the imagery is so great without even needing pictures.