Both the book and the movie of the story the Outsiders were exceptionally the same. They were both great in their own ways. I am the type of guy who normally says that the movie is obviously is better than the book, but in this situation the book actually wins between the movie and itself. The book and the movie were quite similar, but there is just a few differences in the movie than the book and there is more detail in the book than there is in the movie which is why it make the book better than the movie. In the book it just seems to be a little more emotional than the movie, probably because the book chose really standing out words and the book put a lot of detail into it. To be honest the outsiders movie seems to be quite old, which means that in the movie it is probably not as good as the book because it had actors didn’t really act as well as modern day actors do. Another reason that adds to saying that the book was better because it had more detail is that in the movie it did not have special effects like we do nowadays, so that is another reason for why the book is better than the movie because the detail in the book kind of added more suspense and drama than the movie because the movie had somewhat bad acting and bad looking special effect, but that is …show more content…
One of the many similarities between the book and the movie was of course when Darry starts to flirt with Cherry and Darry ends up dripping wet with Soda. Another similarity was when Ponyboy comes back to his house really late only to run away after getting hit by Darry. Last similarity that I am going to say is the most obvious one that stood out both in the movie and the book. Johnny ends up killing a soc to protect Pony. They later end up asking Dally for help and then they go and live in an abandoned church for a couple of