The Outsiders 'Poem Nothing Gold Can Stay'

"Sodapop came loping back. By then I had figured that all the noise I had heard was the gang coming to rescue me" (7). The reason why Ponyboy and Sodapop are really close brothers is because they've been loyal to each other. And now, as they continue to show loyalty, the trust between them

He had never done that before, he learnt to resist and fight. Meanwhile, he also became very negative.“I used to make A's in English, mostly because my teacher made us do compositions all the time. I mean, I know I don't talk good English ……Now I was lucky to get a D on a composition.”(Hinton Chapter 12)，his grades began to drop.He could get A’s in English before，whereas, after Johnny's death, he was grateful that he got a D on his composition. Therefore, the Ponyboy after Johnny's death had a huge contrast to his previous personality and

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.

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.

In this poem, gold alludes to an object, or in this case a person's fragility or innocence. Dally is so crazy about keeping Johnny golden. He does not want Johnny to end up messing up like he did, and getting tough inside. Dallas Winston was in the slammer for a while, and it made him hard and tough, that is what Dally is trying to hide Johnny Cade from. The moral of Gone With the Wind is relative to Nothing Gold Can Stay. “Love and understanding are gone with the wind.” A film taking place in the setting of the Civil War, where characters had to make an effort everyday to survive, like Johnny was having to do after the church fire. Johnny’s understanding of why this had happened to him was long gone, he knew why he did it, and that his love for his brothers was never going to leave his side. Greasers were always different. It seemed like it was everyday one of them or the gang together would have to risk themselves to save another. Greasers hated the Socs and vice versa. That is what Ponyboy talked about. Ponyboy told the story, he either did it in his journal or told it in first person limited, which was through his eyes or how it all went down for him. The movie could be showing scenery and he would be talking about what he felt, or in the book, you cannot see what is happening so in between dialogue breaks, it would pause and he would talk about what he was thinking at the moment or what was happening and his thoughts on it.

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 Chapter 3, another conversation is brought into play. In this Chapter the conversation between Ponyboy and

At the beginning, Ponyboy doesn’t understand the concerns of Darry, but towards the end, he understands that Darry is overprotective for him. For example, when Ponyboy came late home from the lot and Darry hit him and he ran away with Johnny. He said to Johnny, “He didn't use to be like that... we used to get along okay... before Mom and Dad died. Now he just can't stand

It is apparent throughout the movie that Ponyboy struggles with his identity. After his parents had passed away, his older brother, Darrel, became the parental figure for Ponyboy and his other brother, Sodapop. Ponyboy had felt that Darrel didn’t like him anymore and feels that Darrel blames

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.

In the outsiders Ponyboy convinces himself that johnny didn’t die. In the outsiders it says on pg.151 “Johnny was dead. But he wasn't.

Pony’s parents died in a horrific car accident. His oldest brother, Darry, had to drop out of school and give up a football scholarship to college so he could stay home and take care of his two younger brothers. He was constantly afraid that if any of them were engaged in bad behavior and the cops found them, his younger brothers would be thrown into a boys home. This situation caused Pony to lose his gold because he had to witness all of the struggles and suffering he put Darry through. Darry also became very hard on Ponyboy about his grades to make sure he didn’t drop out of school like him and Sodapop did.

Dally may not have said or did the best option for Ponyboy and if he had parents, they would probably give him a better option. Ponyboy becomes very lonely and needs the feeling of friends or family. As a result of him being lonely, he joins a gang to fill in the space of a family. When Ponyboy’s parents died, Ponyboy had a new identity where he was lonely, made bad choices and had no

P:” Johnny was as your buddy, don’t remember that he didn’t want to die.” (Hinton #page156) After Johnny died, Johnny would never know what happened next. He didn’t know that Dally also died because of him. Ponyboy is different, he saw both Johnny and Dally died, his friends. Ponyboy’s personality may change.

“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.