Examples Of Innocence In The Outsiders

One thing the book talks about is keeping childhood innocence. Mostly through the characters of the story the novel also shows how easily experience can change people and cause them to lose their youthful traits. Dallys rough youth has made him tough and fearsome, and he seems not to care about anything. But Dally has a soft spot too caring for Johnny.

Have you ever asked yourself what experiences have guided you to maturity? S.E. Hinton’s “coming of age” novel The Outsiders, was published in 1967 and is set in the 1960’s Southern United States. The book is about a boy named Ponyboy, who gradually reaches maturity. As well as reaching maturity, Ponyboy has to deal with social differences too. In the novel, the last chapters show that Ponyboy is growing up and becoming more mature.

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.

Darry, Ponyboy, and Sodapop lost their innocence when both of their parents died in a car accident. It was traumatizing to them. In the book it says: “I remembered the funeral. I had sobbed in spite of myself; Soda had broken down and bawled like a baby.”(98) When their parents died their whole lives changed. Darry was now in charge of the household, which made him act like an adult. Here is an example: “... Darry, getting old before his time trying to run a family and hold on to two jobs and never having any fun…”(43) In The Outsiders, it is almost impossible for the characters to keep their

"Johnny begs Ponyboy to stay gold this is a direct reference to Robert frosts poem, sadly the world the the boys live in makes it almost impossible to 'stay gold.'"

Boo Radley is the one example of innocence. For example, when Jem goes back to the radley house to get his pants , he does not tell scout what had happened until a while later saying, “ When i went back, they were folded across the fence .... like they were expectin’ me… They’d been sewed up. Not like a lady sewed ‘em , like somethin’ i’d try to do. All crooked.”(pg. 78) Him doing this displays to the children that he is not there to harm them but instead has a loving heart.

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 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.

To begin, the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” has different imagery than the poem “ The Beauty of Fall.” In one point in Frost’s poem, he uses an actual event that occurred in life to help readers fully understand his poem. In the text it states, “Then leaf subsides to leaf./ So Eden sank to grief”(Frost 5-6). The line is reminding readers about a biblical story about Adam and Eve. Eve was a girl who ate the forbidden apple and was banned from living in the Garden of Eden. On the other hand, “The Beauty of Fall” by Copper, Wovna, and Wovna just uses imagery of nature. The poem states, “Acorns on the ground,/ October was red and brown”(Cooper, Wovna, and Wovna 3-4). In the poem, it focuses on how nature changes throughout the season of fall. It starts with the month of October, which talks about the

In the Novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy, the main character, along with his family and friends, grew together while dealing with death and impermanence, while showing loyalty and love. Ponyboy showed these actions/feelings, in many different ways. When Johnny died, Ponyboy learned about death and the meaning of impermanence (nothing lasts forever). Before Johnny died, he said something to Ponyboy that Johnny knew would mean a bunch to him. He remembered this saying that Ponyboy loved and repeated it to him as his lasts words.

(page 90) Innocence is shown at the beginning of the book by Jem and Scout, because to them they lived in a perfect world that showed no evil. They are innocents who have been destroyed through contact with evil. The loss of innocence in a way is a coming of age. This happens by an experience in a child's life where they realize the world's darkness instead of only seeing the good side of it.

In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, many characters changed a lot from the beginning. As they grow older, they endures a lot of dramas which make everybody mad, and they lost their innocence. Johnny. the Greaser, lost his innocence because he killed Bob, the Soc, which is unacceptable, which is shown on page 56. Sodapop, Ponyboy’s brother, lost his innocence. Soda never really wanted anything except Mickey Mouse, the horse. But, Mickey Mouse got sold. Sodapop lost something so special at young age. His parents could not keep it because they never had enough money. Sodapop realized the hardness of reality early, which is shown on page 40.

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.

First, Sodapop a character in the story, when he had not received anything from Sandy, he did not change his spirit. Second, Ponyboy was also “gold” by doing different things from his reputation as a greaser. Last, Darry was also another character that had stayed hopeful even after two of his good friends have died. To begin with, Sodapop had retained his “gold”

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.