Synopsis Of The Book 'The Outsiders' By S. E. Hinton

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The Outsiders is a book by S.E. Hinton. A group of people called the Greasers are the main characters. There names are Dally, Sodapop, Ponyboy, Darry, Steve, Two-Bit, and Johnny. In the book they all have rough lives, some don’t even have parents. Ponyboy and Johnny get it trouble in the middle of the book and they have to go away to a church were later is the cause of Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dallas’s injuries. There were 7 main characters in the book. They were described very thorough in the book. In the book it said that Sodapop had Blondish, gold hair, but in the movie he didn’t have blonde hair. In the movie Dallys hair was dark brown but in the book it said that it was almost white. In the book they said that Two-Bit was supposed to be tall but in the movie he was shorter than everybody else. I think that they weren’t accurate because they couldn’t find anyone who played the part better. I also thought that they would all be a little tougher looking that what they were. Except for Johnny and Ponyboy I thought that they were pretty accurate with what they're toughness looked like. They also never introduced Sandy. I think that they did that because it wasn’t that …show more content…

In the movie it didn’t show them eating or drinking anything but in the book it explained all of it. ALso they were in the car in both the movie and the book. When they headed back they found that the church was on fire. There were a lot of things that were the same in the movie and book. How Johnny and Pony both went into the church. Also when they were lifting the little kids out, a little girl bit Ponyboy. When Pony ran out of the church the jacket was on fire just like the book and Johnny got struck by a post that fell off of the ceiling. Dally had to run into the church and grab Johnny. I thought that the movie did a good job of showing the

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