Comparing The Outsiders And Nothing Gold Can Stay

The poem, ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, by Robert Frost is an important part of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Explain how the poem relates to the key events in the novel.

“Nothing gold can stay” (77). These wise words from Robert Frost state that nothing can stay young forever. Johnny Cade is a quiet member of the Greasers gang. Johnny’s home life is rough, his father beats him and his mother could care less about him. The Greasers are the good gang from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their rivals, the Socs, are preps who spend their time partying, or tormenting the Greasers. Throughout this story, Johnny is depicted as sensitive, selfless, and strong.

I have read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost. In The Outsiders 2 gangs fight with each other and will not like each other and have peace. One is rich and one is poor so the rich people think they are totally different. In “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Robert is telling us that not everything can stay.

Have you ever heard of the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay’? Well, in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, this poem is used. It ties in by explaining how none of the Greasers, really have a childhood. They grew up very fast, and didn’t have much with toys, and friendship. The Greasers have each other and that’s all.

“Nothing gold can stay”, When it says nothing gold can stay means nothing good can stay so when something good is happening it can’t stay forever. Gold means good, Johnny in the Outsiders is “Gold”. Johnny is one of youngest in the gang and he would end killing himself if he didn’t have the gang around him. Johnny is a greaser, he is 16 years old, at home is family beats him or yells at him, he know as the gang's pet. His gang kept him alive and the reason why he is so good is that his family beats him but yet he so nice to everyone and he also thinks that fighting is no good.

The line in the poem "Nothing Gold can Stay" describes how nobody can stay innocent forever. Although Ponyboy had only known life through sheltered eyes , he soon realized that not everything is perfect. Also, he was a different person after. Before he witnessed death, he was scared to death by Soc's and wouldn't dare stand up to them.

I have read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and “Nothing Gold can Stay” by Robert Frost. The Outsiders is about two groups whose names are the Greasers and the Socs that don’t get along and always want to fight. “Nothing Gold can Stay” is about how nothing perfect in life will stay perfect. The theme of The Outsiders chapter 1 is divided community, the theme of “Nothing Gold can Stay” is nothing perfect will stay perfect forever.

The Outsiders The greasers face some problem when one of them kills someone from their rivals gang. Together they fight, help others, and remember to stay gold. The outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about a gang called the Greasers. They get themselves into trouble, but the criminals come out hero’s when they save some children from a burning church. They hero’s are severly hurt but push through, except for one…

Imagine being separated into two different groups based on what side of town one lives on and what one wears, then imagine having to act a certain way when one feels a whole different way. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are two groups, Socs and the Greasers, they have a rivalry with each other; the Greasers are known for having bad reputations that will never go anywhere in life and are poor, while the Socs can be disrespectful to the community, but an asset to the community the next day, and with a lot of money. In the novel, S.E. Hinton includes Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to focus on the poem’s deeper meaning. When examining Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, one can analyze the usage of color, lost of innocence, and identity change.

Ponyboy and Johnny had very good relationship to each other. They were like brothers to one another and loved each other. Johnny wants ponyboy to stay gold, as in stay the same because he doesn’t want ponyboy to change. He doesn’t want ponyboy to change because ponyboy is perfect in Johnny’s eyes. So in Robert Frost's poem “nothing gold can stay “ he is explaining nothing perfect will stay forever.

The Outsiders was about the greasers and the Socs. The Socs always jump the greasers, one day Johnny fights back, he ends up killing Bob. Johnny and Ponyboy run away to a church and hide until Dally comes and gets them. They then see the church was burning, Ponyboy and Johnny run into it to save the kids inside. Johnny and Dally get injured, Ponyboy is okay. The greasers win the rumble, the Socs will stay out of the greasers territory, Johnny passes away from his injuries, Dally robs a store, the police shoot him, and he does not survive the shots. In the end Ponyboy decides to regather his life and he starts with writing his theme for his ELA class. The book The Outsiders book, the

In this essay, I am going to compare the similarities and differences of teenage life in The Outsiders to the life of teenagers now. The life of The Outsiders and the life of teenagers now are different in some ways and are similar in other ways. The Outsiders had different technology and social media, similar daily lives, and looked and wore different things then what we do now. They didn’t have much technology as we do now, they used payphones and a 300 series phones, but and now we use cell phones and have a lotlots of social media. They had similar daily lives like we do. We both hangout with our friends after school, eat, and slept, and had daily problems to solve in our daily lives. But the difference in our daily

“Stay gold” was Johnny Cade’s motivational advice for his best friend Ponyboy Curtis, a boy who’d always remember to stay innocent and kind, keep things new and fresh, and enjoy his time with the people closest to him. This quote was taken from a poem excerpt by Robert Frost in the book The Outsiders. This book narrates the journey of an introverted 14 year old facing daily challenges of identity, a feeling of belonging, and a sense of family. He lives with his older brothers Darry and Sodapop in Oklahoma. They are considered lower-class because of their location and the gang they belong to, which consists of Ponyboy, Johnny, Darry, Soda, Two-Bit, Steve, and Dally.

I have read The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost. The Outsiders is about a group of boys that are really poor and they get in a whole lot of trouble, and their hair is what they consider the best part of being a greaser. The poem is exactly how it sounds, it is about how the first leaf dropped by a tree is the most precious, but eventually fades away.

Part of you is being slowly chipped away, the more and more you live life the less and less you have of it and you don't even know it. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a poem by Robert Frost that uses nature to represent innocence in a person. The Outsiders is about a boy named Ponyboy and his gang the Greasers dealing with bullying, deaths, and life threatening situations that chips away at their personalities. In the Poem “Nothing gold can stay” by Robert Frost and The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the theme innocence is portrayed in similar ways.