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The Outsiders: Comparing The Book And Movie
The movie “The Outsiders” and the book “The Outsiders” are close to being the same,but not quite. They both have the same characters and the same setting. The differences from the book compared to the movie are that in the beginning Ponyboy the main character doesn’t get jumped. Another difference is that Tim Sheperd was never at the movie theater,but there are some similarities.
Here are some of the similarities between the two. Bob is still killed by Johnny. The same thing happens in the movie and the book.Ponyboy and Johnny still hide in the church. They hide in an old abandoned old church in both the film and in the book. They might have their similarities, but they have a good bit of differences.
The differences will be judged based

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