Comparing The Outsiders And Nothing Gold Can Stay

The book and the movie of the Outsiders are two very different stories. The book has so much more detail then the movie. The movie is not the most detailed but it does get its point across. There are may similarities and also many differences between the two the book is by far more interesting and more detailed then the movie. I enjoyed the book a lot and the movies a lot but the movie was missing a lot.

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.

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.

S.E Hinton’s, “The Outsiders” and Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s ,“Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” are two young adult novels with greatly different stories yet support the same ideology. Both works focus on the lives of two teenage boys, Ponyboy, of Hinton’s novel, and Aristotle, of Sáenz’s. The story of Ponyboy takes place in the year 1969, and focuses on a huge but short period of his life. It tells about his struggle as an orphan under the care of his two older brothers and deals with gang violence, socioeconomic status, and death. Whereas, the story of Aristotle takes place during the 1980’s and covers a long period of his life and involves his experiences with his relationship with his hands-on parents, his sexual orientation, and struggling with his awkward years. There are many conceptions of what is appropriate for young readers, but these two novels defend that young people should be informed. By examining “The Outsiders” and “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe”, this ideology of communicating mature topics to these readers is supported as the characters of both novels deal with the challenges of belonging, identity, and staying true to themselves, as well as reinforce the notion that adolescents can benefit from this knowledge.

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.

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

In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, she includes the poem called, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” many times inside of the book. The more you comprehend the poem, the more you can relate it to the book. At the first sight of the quote, you probably did not have any idea why Hinton would include this quote; eventually you understand the true moral to the story and how it relates to The Outsiders itself and the characters that the novel incorporates.

“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.

How could two juvenile delinquents who share many differences and similarities have such a solid friendship? In the novel The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, Dallas Winston and Johnny cade are very different, but besides their differences they have a special bond. Although they have differences such as advice giving, and rule following, they also have similarities like comparable parents and their concern for each other.

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.

The book excerpt and movie clip of The Outsiders have several similarities and differences. The two different mediums have some clear similarities. In the text portion and film clip, they both show 1950s dialect. In the book snippet, Ponyboy uses the word “a’woofin,” which is sort of a slang word in the 1950s. In the film adaptation, the dialect and accents from Ponyboy, Johnny, and the Socs show that they were in the 1950s, along with the use of some 1950s slang. Another event both accounts have that are alike is that they use the same insults in the excerpt and movie. In both accounts, a Soc said, “You know what a greaser is? White trash with long hair.” In addition, Ponyboy also threw back an insult in both mediums, saying, “You

The title of Robert Frosts poem was not obvious as to the meaning. In the shorter, eightlined version the poem appears to be about how good things dont last forever, but in the much longer poem we see his fear of the world ending. The title "Nothing Gold Can Stay" would not seem relevent without having read the poem.

“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.” Johnny Cade breathed his last breath while asking Ponyboy to do the impossible. In the fictional novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, there is a main theme that fits with the phrase “stay gold”. Ponyboy can not stay gold because he has witnessed too much hate and horror already within his lifetime .

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.

In Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold can Stay, the theme is also about death like it also is in Out Out—, as well. Yet, this poem emphasizes more about the transience of life rather than the suddenness of life ending. “Nothing Gold can Stay” is about the appreciation for the golden days while the cycle of life continues and death becomes of each and every one of us.