In the novel, The Outsiders, events are depicted with great detail by the author but in film those events are somewhat lost on the screen in at least five instances. The first instance is revealed in that the story from the novel is told in first person from Ponyboy’s perception, in the movie you do not know that he is telling the entire story. A good example of this is in the first sentence …showed first 75 words of 779 total…

…showed last 75 words of 779 total…the novel. The best examples of this would be seeing the skyline of Tulsa and the Admiral Twin drive in theatre. In the book you have no idea where the novel meant to depict. There are many differences between reading a novel and watching a film and I for one am a person who would much rather experience a novel in full detail and use my own imagination to make the novel come to life.