Sometimes people are introduced to things that they find so fascinating it might just change their lives. For me, the thing that absolutely changed my life was this movie I watched in the seventh grade. After I watched the movie I thought it was the best thing ever, this movie that I was now obsessed with was everything to my friend and I, it was all we would ever talk about. Then, in the beginning of 8th grade I was gifted the book version of the movie I loved known as "The Outsiders" At the time I never realized how special this book would be to me. When I watched the movie, I only saw it because I liked movies around the timeframe of the 80's but when I read the book it was different because you were able to focus more on each character and see their development which the movie failed to express. The movie/novel changed my life because my perspective on people wether I liked them or not changed. When I read the novel "The Outsiders" something that I was able to takeaway was the adversity of all the characters and how being different affected each of their backgrounds.