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Writing Assignment 6/21

I have posted two video clips, one of Dally right after Johnny's death and one showing the moment of his death.  Because these scenes evoked, I thought, particularly good discussions about Dallas's reactions to Johnny's death, see if you can do a comparison of the book's treatment of these event's versus the movie's. Do you think they both handle Dallas's reaction and death in the same way or does each one--book and movie-- interpret the events somewhat differently.

 

Please watch the clips in order at least twice, then read pages 154-155 of The Outsiders two or three times and think about how similar or different the book and the movie are. Because they are different media, they might focus on different aspects of the same scenes. If they do, please point those out. Then again, the movie may simply recreate the scenes in the book without introducing any new elements. You decide based on your comparison of what you see and what you read. 

 

Also if you can open this link, it contains an audio version of The Outsiders, which you may enjoy hearing. Some of the free Web audio versions of books are perfectly awful. But this one is well done, and I thought you might enjoy it since I think we all liked reading the book. 

https://monteromyp2english.wik.../Audio+The+Outsiders

 

 

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