~~Cahil Neal's review~~

The Outsiders

‘The Outsiders’ was published by S.E Hinton in 1967, it is an excellent novel and a great film, I enjoyed reading the novel and watching the film because it was a great novel and about what I like. I think that the novel was better even though I don’t like to read. The novel had more detail and description of the characters and scenes, then the film.  The film cuts out scenes that the novel had. The film was good and a lot of the scenes I read in the novel I pictured differently in my head compared to the film.  The plot of the film is about the two main gangs fighting, The Socs and the Greasers. The Socs get anything they want and the Greasers have to work for a living. The Socs are the rich people who live on the East side of town and the Greasers live on the West side of town. The gangs get into turf wars and the Socs always enter the Greasers turf and start fights with them. 

The plot of the film is that the two main gangs are at war and they get into a lot of fights. The Socs are the socials and they get what they want, when they want. The Greasers are the hoods; they are the people who get jumped by the Socs and have to work to survive.  The guys in the Greasers gang are Johnny, Ponyboy, Darry, Soda-pop, Dallas, Two-bit and Steve. Ponyboy is the fourteen year old narrator writing the story in his life. Johnny has a really bad life; he is the puppy of the group that has been kicked too many times. Darry is the oldest guy of the gang; he is super smart and athletic. Soda-pop is seventeen years old, smart, athletic and a hard worker. Dally is fascinated by Ponyboy. Two-bit is eighteen years old and is the joker of the gang, he never stops talking and always has a smart comment about everything. Steve is Soda’s best friend and he thinks of Ponyboy as a child, Ponyboy is least close to Steve.

The Characters in the novel sound tougher, the novel make it sound like there is more action, but in the film there is hardly any action and it depicted scenes that aren’t in the novel. When Dallas steals from the shop, he is mad because he let Ponyboy get hurt; the clerk in the shop starts shooting at him when he runs out of the shop and hits him, in the novel the clerk never has a gun. The novel is good because it displays scenes that aren’t in the film and the film is good because it shows a little amount of scenes that aren’t in the novel.