Nothing Gold Can Stay In The Outsiders

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.

Robert Frost is the author of Nothing Gold Can Stay. Although you have to break down this poem to get the real meaning, it is based off of his point of view of politics. But, this poem can also be taken many different ways. Even though I said it was based off of politics, it can also be about nature and life.

There are many things that the word gold can refer to in the novel the outsiders, it can portray Johnny or Pony boy. I say this because a person like Johnny on comes around once in a life time and when you find a friend like that you will want to cherish it forever. For someone like pony boy he was a different type of gold.

Johnny and Ponyboy are two characters in S.E Hinton’s novel ‘The Outsiders.' They both have contrary lives from each other with a few similarities, as well as being two greasers from a second society. Johnny has had a rough life so far since both his parents never cared for him. His mother would abuse him verbally, and his father would abuse him physically and verbally. As for Ponyboy, both of his parents died, leaving him with his two older brothers Sodapop and Darry. Johnny and Ponyboy both read ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ at the ran down church. They didn’t know precisely what the poem meant, but little do they know that the poem would have a significant similarity to them individually. Each line and stanza refer to the experiences that Johnny and Ponyboy have lived through throughout the story.

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.

The novel, the Outsiders by S.E. Hilton has many symbols to represent characters and events. There are many struggles throughout the story. Johnny killing Bob and when Darry slapped Ponyboy causing both boys to run away. The symbols gold, the sunsets, and Gone with the Wind.

This poem is a narrative about how nothing gold can stay. It is telling about anything perfect and beautiful and how they end up not staying. For example, when a baby is born and a mother gets to see her child for the first time, that is gold. Once it grows up it will not be innocent and perfect.

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.

Had you ever wondered how the novel ¨The Outsiders¨ and the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay compared? How do they relate to each other? How they are similar to each other? In the novel ¨The Outsiders¨ by S.E Hinton, there was the greasers and the sos.

Nothing Gold Can Stay. In the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hilton there are two gangs that always fight with each other Until Johnny kills Bob Johnny, Pony we're on the run from the cops but they came back before the rumble. Johnny made two important choices in the book one is when he killed Bob, and the other is jumping in the fire.

When Johnny hears the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” he interprets it to mean that gold is like being a kid, when everything is new. As he lies on his deathbed, his last words to Ponyboy are “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold (Hinton, pg. 148).” Ponyboy doesn’t understand what he means by this at first, but Johnny wants him to stay lively and young because “…it’s a good way to be (Hinton, pg. 178).” Unfortunately, several of “The Outsiders’” characters do lose their gold throughout the story.

In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost the themes are some what similar. The Outsiders talks about two social classes fighting each other and what happened because of it. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” talks about how we need to treasure beautiful things because they can’t stay forever. The Outsiders and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” themes are about self-sacrifice, honor, and treasuring things.

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.