A comparison of the novel “The Outsiders” using advantages and disadvantages of each medium helps determine which one is better the book, or the movie . Both the movie and the book have their own disadvantages and advantages because of the way is been told. Those reasons will determine whether the book or the movie is better. The book has more details about what is happening in the book the book and because it is told in Ponyboy’s point of view. In the movie it is told in 3rd person. The book is also not rushed like in the movie because you are reading it at your own pace. There’s different interpretations of the book because different people interpret it different than another person would. The interpretations change the many ways the book …show more content…
It gives a sense of what could happen earlier on in the book as you read it. Explains the background of the setting in the book. Describes the places and the surroundings around the characters and how it makes them feel or what it makes them think about. In the situation they are in the book. The movie doesn't tells you what the characters are think and why they are doing what they are doing in the movie and in the book it tells you the What ,When, and Why of what is going on. The emotions in the characters in the book about their feeling and who they are in the inside and who are they on the outside or how they act around certain things. The way the characters are described in the book is better than how they are described in the movie. The descriptions of the characters are clear in the book about what they look like but when you see the movie you expected them to look like what they said in the book. In the movie they look different than what it says in the book. It gives you more about inside of the characters past life, Before what makes who they are in the present in the book. The development the character in the book is better than in the