Relate To The Outsiders

Nothing Gold Can Stay was written by Robert Frost in 1923. The poem is aboout how as things grow older they lose their innocence. Like how when a leaf in the fall turns brown and dies or how when a child turns into an adult they mature and lose the innocence they had a a young child. The poem says "nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold". This means that when something is first born, they are born clean and pure, which is the hardest thing to be in our time.

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.

Have you ever wonder how to keep kids out of gangs? S.E Hinton is the author of The Outsiders a heroic story of friendship and belonging. The story is about a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy- a 14-year old boy who lives with his brothers. He has many problems that he has to face, but One of the most important and problems that he has to face is the socs a vicious gang and for fun they beat up greasers like ponyboy. Friends and family are the best things you can have in life shows, though many of the characters.

Johnny was the one that needed his friends the most, with a dad that beat him, and a mom that ignored him, until she needed something to yell at, then she yelled at him so loud Ponyboy could hear it from down the street. Due to this abusive relationship with his parents, Johnny needed something, or someone to fall back on, this was the gang, including Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Two-Bit, Dally, and Steve. Johnny often slept over at Ponyboy's when life at home was especially hard, and Ponyboy even claimed "He would have ran away a million times if we weren't there"

A piece of evidence that shows Johnny’s strength is, “Johnny yelled, ‘Shut up! We’re going to get you out!”’(Hinton 92). This is after Johnny kills the soc, and Johnny and Ponyboy are hiding out in the church. When they return to find the church on fire, they run in a save the kids that are in the church. In the fire Johnny gets hit in the back with a piece of wood, and he is then hospitalized. Sadly while he is the hospital, the gang realizes he is gonna pass. So when the greasers win the rumble, the big fight between the greasers and socs, Ponyboy goes to see Johnny. Since Johnny knows he is dying, he says, “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold”(Hinton 148). While Johnny and Ponyboy were hiding in the church, they watched a sunset. Johnny thought the sky was so pretty and he wished it could stay like that forever. So, Ponyboy recites a poem about how nothing gold/perfect can stay. When Johnny is dying he says this to Ponyboy in regards to Ponyboy’s sensitive side. Johnny and Ponyboy understand each other so well because they are the only very emotional guys in the gang. Johnny does not want Ponyboy to lose his sensitive side just because he is the only very emotional guy in the gang. Finally Johnny becomes more outgoing. In the fire Ponyboy describes his attitude as, “He wasn’t scared either. That was the only time I can think of when i saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes”(Hinton 92). Johnny’s

Have you ever felt like you didn’t fit in? Like you were an outcast in your society. That you didn’t fit in with anyone in the group or even your society. In the outsiders it shows how some people just don’t fit in with a crowd. The novel is The Outsiders and the author is S.E Hinton. Even 50 years after it’s release the outsiders theme of the society/class and violences are still uncannily similar in our modern society.

His actions of running away define him largely because he was running from police. When he went to the church after dairy queen, he saw the church was on fire, so he rushed into the church with Johnny and later Johnny died. When Johnny was about to die, he told Ponyboy, ‘“Stay gold”’ (148). Johnny’s actions shows that a person should always put others first even if a person risks their life to save someone or something. Johnny risked his life for the little kids in the church. Then, later when he was in the hospital he said stay gold. He was saying that Ponyboy should stay the way he is and should put others First, like in the real world differences define people not their actions but their differences. Because two types of people are different or the same, the people that are alike would most likely hang out but people that are different would not hang out but rather judge them on their looks or money. Ponyboy thought there was the better coming but money can hold people

Robert Frost utilizes many different figurative devices, imagery and allusions in his poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to reveal to the audience that every beautiful thing will come to an end, and any pure or permanent thing will eventually appear false or temporary. These ideas combined with metaphors and alliterations dramatizes the truth of the title, even though it sounds ironic in itself. His allusion and use of different images, depicted in the minds of the reader, further completes his idea on the topic of gold. The poem opens by talking about the beautiful colors of spring, establishing that nature is gold before it is green. Leaves start as flowers, but they do not stay forever. This natural process is related to the fall of the Garden

Society has always been separated into stereotypical groups. Now’a’days, those groups are represented by classes: lower, middle, and upper class. What about back then? During the 1960’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma; high school student Susan Eloise Hinton (S.E Hinton) writes a book called The Outsiders about the diverse groups in her town. Between the Greasers and the Socs, who are the real outsiders of the story? Though the groups are separated into privileged and unfortunate, the outsiders are the ones who unintentionally disassociate themselves with their social clicks by socializing with the “opposite side” and treating them respectfully.

In the Outsiders by S.E Hinton the theme is that nothing good can stay. For example the sun never stays up, it always goes down. In the poem “Nothing Gold can stay” and the Outsiders the themes are almost Identical. The theme is that nothing good ever lasts forever, and that all good things must go. The Outsiders presents a roller coaster of events where things go from atrocious to wonderful.

Whether it be good or bad expect change and the world evolve. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is only eight lines long and makes a bold statement. Saying that nothing good can last, as it mentions nature in the first line. Using nature helps the authors tell the story mainly through the cycle of life and death. Season change and so does life, so when moments are precious we should appreciate those moments.

In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, the story revolves around two social groups and the different choices the individuals make in each group. As the role of the narrator and main character, Ponyboy explains to readers how different factors, internal and external, affect the individual in the two groups, Greasers and Socs. These factors affect the choices they make in different situation, leading to different consequences. One characters from the Greasers that let their internal emotions and expectation drive their decisions is Ponyboy. Another character from the Greasers that let external factors and stereotype threats affect his choices is Dally. Last, but not least, Cherry, a character from the Socs, lets the external factor take over even though she doesn’t feel like she fits into what the external expectations are. Internal emotions and external stereotypes affect the choices of individuals in each social group which leads to different consequences for each.

The Desire of freedom, the temptation of danger and nostalgia for childhood are examples of twists and turns observed going through life, but it is often at their last moment that people take the time to realize how important their surroundings are and the time passed is precious. Frost poem, “nothing gold can stay” is a writing, underlining the lost in which we are confronted and the incertitude of the future. However, Sylvia Plath’s poem is pointing out more and more the unusual way she sees the world and her own life with her writing “Mirror”. With both of these poems, the reader go through the meaning of life according to both authors. Through disparate personification, imagery, and symbolism, Frost and Plath utilize those literacy diverse to emphasize their poems themes human vanity and the fear of aging.

Johnny wants Ponyboy to remain gold, or innocent. Johnny now senses the uselessness of fighting; he knows that Ponyboy is better than getting into fights. Therefore, he wants Ponyboy to hold onto the golden qualities that set him apart from the rest of the gang.

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.