However, there are two versions of the film: the theatrical version and the 2005 “complete novel” version, which has 22 minutes of additional footage, making it more faithful to the novel than the original film.

The book is a coming-of-age novel, but the movie focuses on the characters’ loss of innocence. The movie follows the story line very closely. The reader is only told that this story takes place in the southwest, but the movie places it in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the year 1966.

The book is a million times better. I enjoy the movie but it is only a shadow of the book. They don’t have enough time to develop all of the characters, like Two-Bit and Sodapop. The extended version is better but it still doesn’t measure up.

The novel of The Outsiders is better than the movie. The novel gives more vivid details than the movie does. Even though the movie shows actual image, the novel lets you have your own image of what’s going on. The movie did not show the part where Ponyboy was getting jump.

Expert Answers Ponyboy goes to the movies alone because other kids he knows, and his brothers, don’t appreciate them as much as he does. Pony also says, “When I see a movie with someone it’s kind of uncomfortable, like having someone read your book over your shoulder” (2).

As explained in the above answer, Ponyboy, part of the Greaser gang, is jumped by a group of Socs, a rival gang, on his way home from the cinema, and saved by his brothers and other Greasers. Ponyboy is rescued by his brothers and other Greasers whom he also regards as family.

member Dallas Winston
Johnny idolizes gang member Dallas Winston. Dally is living proof that one can survive without parents or family. Johnny needs to follow in the footsteps of someone in his life and Dally, his hero, is the one he chooses.

Johnny thinks that Dally is a hero because of Dally’s deep loyalty to his fellow Greasers. Dally expresses this innate loyalty through acts of self-sacrifice. Additionally, Johnny thinks of Dally as a man of honor, someone who will never betray a fellow Greaser.

The Uncut PG version is, as its title suggests, uncut and runs 121min (the original version runs 91min).

Why is there a feud between the Socs and the Greasers? Q. Why is Ponyboy nervous when a red corvair pulls up next to him while he’s walking alone? Darry and Ponyboy never fight because they have a strong brotherly bond.

One of the Socs wore several rings and the rings badly cut Johnny. The beating wasn’t what had changed Johnny, it was the fact that they had scared him. Johnny never walked alone anymore, and he vowed that he would kill the next person who jumped him.