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Making connections - The Outsiders vs “What love isn’t”

“What love isn’t,” is such a great and very accurate poem. It explains love very well and compares to the book The Outsiders very well. They both have a lot in common. Life does not always go well, there are many troubling parts to it but we always push through it no matter what. In the poem What love isn’t there is this short excerpt that says, “It is now and till the end. It is never a slither, never a little it is a full serving it is much too much and real never pretty or clean.” This relates to my connection to the outsiders because this quote means that love is now to the end and you never give up, it's a lot to handle. Just like the Greasers. They stick together no matter what. Sometimes they might have big problems but they never give up on trying to deal with them,. Yeah it’s hard but they’re brothers. What love isn’t also has this quote, it is weight and it is too heavy to feel good sometimes. It is discomfort — it is not what the films say.” This quote connects to t

THE OUTSIDERS - movie is trash, book is not

In some ways the movie did stay true to the novel but, there were many things that were just plain out had about the movie compared to the book. The emotion, the acting, it just wasn’t the same. The book made it feel more real. I think the director did a bad job delivering the novel's message because the actors did not show the same emotion that the characters in the book did. I didn’t really feel the same way I did when I read the book. They were almost like robots. Between The Outsiders book and movie there were many similarities. For example, in both Pony and Johnny were in the drive in movie where they met Cherry Valance and Marcia. Also, Johnny had killed Bob the SOC leading him and Ponyboy to run away and hide in the abandoned church. Both the movie and the book had the scene about the Church fire and Johnny had broke his back. In both movie and the book, Johnny tells Ponyboy to stay golden. This is an important scene because when Johnny tells him this he wants Pony to r