Max Brodin Mrs.Alvstad English Feb 16, 2023 due date Outsiders Essay. When I walked out of room 372, I had two things on my mind; An essay on The Outsiders, and will I be able to write it in time? The Outsiders was a popular book written by S.E Hinton. There was a movie released in 1983 using the same name. This begs the question, how well does the movie stay true to the original book? The plot of the story stays the same throughout. A kid named Ponyboy, who is in a gang named “Greasers” gets in trouble with a rival gang “the Socs” because he was at the drive-in with a Soc’s girlfriend. Ponyboy and his friend Johnny go to the park and run into the Socs again. The Socs threatened Ponyboy by drowning him, so Johnny murdered one of them. The two go to a city to run away. They find a church burning down. The duo go in to save children who are stuck. Johnny gets badly injured and Ponyboy goes home. Ponyboy and his other friend, Dallas, go back to the hospital to visit Johnny again. Johnny dies and Dallas has a mental breakdown. Dallas later commits suicide by police. Ponyboy has to write a story about what happened while he missed a month of school. So he wrote a book named “The Outsiders”. One thing that isn’t mentioned in the movie is Ponyboy’s brother, Sodapop’s relationship with a girl named Sandy. …show more content…
In the movie you can see many signs pointing to a city in Oklahoma. Although in the book, you don’t know where it takes place as the author never directly states it. In the scene where Ponyboy and Johnny go see Dallas, the author never states that Dallas lived above a bar. But in the movie you can see that the duo go see Dallas at a bar, looking for help. In the movie, Ponyboy has a dream about how his parents died. In the book however, it is never explained how or why his parents are dead. It is apparent that in both the movie and the book, Ponyboy lives in a sketchy