Compare And Contrast Essay On The Outsiders

“Stay gold Ponyboy stay gold.” A young boy said this while he was on his deathbed but who was it? In The Outsiders there are many similarities and differences with the movie and the book. There are also many different themes that happen in the book and movie as well. In The Outsiders it has many similarities in the movie and the book. Gone with the Wind is one of the allusions. When Johnny and Dally died they referred it to Gone with the Wind because the southern men were gallant and when they died they died as heros. Robert Frost wrote a poem called “Nothing Gold can Stay” in the poem it meant that when you’re young you’re very innocent and pure and when they say stay gold it means don’t change no matter what and they perceived these in both the film and the novel. One of the very obvious conflicts they had in the film and the

In the movie it says that the North side were the Greasers and the South side were the Socs but in the book the East side were the Greasers and the West side were the Socs. Johnny killed a Soc named Bob out of self defense and Ponyboy witnessed it. Johnny and Ponyboy went to go find Dally to see if he would help them out and in the film it shows Dally at a bar but in the book they find him at a house. When Ponyboy and Dally were at the hospital visiting Johnny he passed away and his last words were “Stay gold Ponyboy stay gold” and when Dally realized that Johnny wasn’t going to wake up he freaked out and he hit a wall and stormed off. Ponyboy eventually ends up going home and tells Darry and all of the gang that Johnny died. They got a call from Dally saying he robbed a grocery store but in the film it shows him getting shot by the cashier but in the book it says he gets gunned down by police officers. After Dally and Johnny both die Ponyboy gets really sick and is homebound for several weeks in the book but in the movie it doesn’t show anything of Ponyboy being sick at