Maybe-by Brent Runyon

          11/17/17

          The book that I have read is a book called Maybe. Maybe is written by the author Brent Runyon, the genre of this book is teen-fiction.

          

          Maybe, is about a boy named Brian who has just moved with his mother and father to a new neighborhood. He goes through the struggles of having to go to a new school, trying to make new friends, and trying to lose his virginity. The relationship with him and his parents is something he is not proud of, and he says it all went bad due to his brothers abscense. In fact he does make friends, although they may not be friends that are loyal to him. Personally my favorite part of this book is when Brian has a talk with his brother in his car, because it allows Brian to get everything out. Also because he finally realizes how much he loves his brother and misses him dearly. 

          The main character, Brian is lonely. This is shown on page 171 of the book where it says “I’m all alone. I don’t have anyone and I don’t care about anyone and no one cares about me.” This shows that Brian feels as if no one cares for and that he is not important. Throughout the book you can see how he truly feels when it comes to his importance.

          Personally, I truly liked this book because it can relate to many teenagers out there in the world. It goes from relating to the hardships of being a teenager in school to feelings that you go through in life. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone. Mostly because it’s a book that many people can relate to, and also a book that people very much will enjoy. The theme of this book would have to be is that ‘it may feel as if you are the only one alone, but there are people out there who feel exactly the same.’
         

         

We real cool poem connected to The Outsiders Novel

“ We real cool” , is a poem that describes the life of seven main friends that are probably in a street gang, that get into quite frequent trouble. Or maybe I'm entirely wrong, whatever, I think it is connected to the novel ‘The Outsiders’, because both stories revolve around 7 young boys that both go through many obstacles along the way.“Seven at the golden shovel”. Meaning maybe there are seven of them maybe as like the main people who are being talked about in this poem. This connects to the outsiders by the characters, there are seven people (main) because the seven people in the outsiders were only really, Ponyboy, Sodapop, Johnny, Darry, Dally, Steve, and Two-bit. “We die soon”. Probably meaning someone somewhere in the poem, something happens to them and they die. This also connects to the outsiders as well because someone dies in the poem who was most likely a beloved character and in the outsiders Johnny died who was a very beloved character. In conclusion both of these show that The Outsiders can compare to other things. In both a poem all the way to real life. These poems connected with each other in a way of teenage life or young adult life. As how it can be hard and confusing for some people. In the outsiders there was very much of this, which shows that the poem and the outsiders can be connected and compared.

The outsiders- Book to movie comparison and differences

There were many differences and similarities in the movie and the book ‘The outsiders’.

A difference between the two was how, in the book after Ponyboy accidentally falls asleep in the lot Darry gets mad and slaps him. Although in the movie Darry only harshly pushes Ponyboy to the ground. Also when Johnny and Ponyboy try to find the church to hid in, in the book Ponyboy asks for directions, but in the movie he does not and Johnny just walk straight to the church. As well in the movie and the book Dally offers to take Johnny and Ponyboy out to eat after they were in the church for five days. When they are eating in the book no one seems to disturb them or talk to them, although in the movie a little girl and boy go up to Dally and ask him if he has any change. One thing that did quite stand out is that in the book Ponyboy says how Sodapop has this rusty blonde colored long hair, but in the movie Sodapop had blackish brown dark hair. Another thing is when Ponyboy is talking to Randy and Randy says how his friends will think he's soft if he were to talk to nicely of Bob. Although while in the movie he says they will think he is off his rocker if he would even say something like that to him. Lastly when Two-bit and Ponyboy see Johnny pass out the nurse rushes them out the door and tells them they have to leave. Although in the movie they decide that they should leave and the nurse doesn't say anything about them having to leave immediately.

Within the book and movie there are five particular similarities I have found. The first one was, how in both the book and movie Darry tells Ponyboy he looks like he is really sick and shouldn't fight in the rumble that night. Second is when both Johnny and Ponyboy are at the church in hiding all they have to eat is bologna sandwiches. Also when there is a fire set to the church Ponyboy and Johnny save the kids from the church. Also after Johnny kills Bobby Cherry becomes a spy for the greasers. Sadly the last similarity is how when both Dally and Johnny die in the book and movie they both mention to say Ponyboy or speak to Ponyboy.

Throughout the movie I do not believe that the actors or directors deliver the messages that were taught in the book. The actors did not do so good at showing their emotions well enough for someone to receive it fully. Also during the important and sad moment of some of the scenes in the movie they were not showed fully by showing the true emotion of the actor/character.
Overall this is how I felt about the movie and how it was portrayed, and what differences and similarities were shown in both the book and movie.