The Novel”The Outsiders” and the movie”The Outsiders”are different in some ways and similar in others.For example in the movie they don't include the trial scene that happened in the novel which absolutely helped create tension in the novel.Likewise the movie don't show the effects of Dally’s and Johnny's death on Ponyboy contrary to the novel which the death of both Dally and Johnny had an immense effect on Ponyboy causing his grades to drop and his once soft-spoken and naive character to harden and become tougher furthermore Randy wasn't developed that much and in the movie we didn't get to really understand that the socs and the greasers were the same.The movie was quite faithful in the book in some ways since it included most of the scenes in the novel such as the scene where Johnny kills Bob to help Ponyboy which was a driving force of the plot in both the movie and the novel and caused most of the crucial events to happen like Johnny and Dally’s death.Furthermore the movie included the church setting on fire and causing the death …show more content…
He looked a little nervous and I wished they'd let him have a cigarette.I wished they'd let me have a cigarette:I Was more than a little shaky myself”and the movie didn't include this whole section in the movie and the trial was a source of tension in the novel.In the novel it also states”I was lousing up my schoolwork,too.I didn't do too badly in math,because Darry checked over my homework in that he usually caught all my mistakes and made me do it again,but in english I really washed out”In the movie it didn't talk about any of this and this part was important because it affected Ponyboy in a great deal and indirectly caused him to write the