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    Johnny In The Outsiders

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    One Of The Greasers ¨stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold¨.Johnny's last words to Ponyboy means that don't give up in life and be happy. In this book by S. E. Hinton shows that Johnny is quiet and is the gang's pet. She also shows that he is scared to. Johnny can be nice too by helping each other. The Outsiders, a novel by S. E. Hinton Johnny is very quiet, scared, nice in The Outsiders, a novel by S. E. Hinton. more importantly, Johnny is quiet compared to the others. He is very quiet when they were

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    The Outsiders, is a book about love, hate, loss and mistakes. These things are causes for many events. Over the course of the book the identity of the narrator, Ponyboy Curtis changes. His identity goes from an outsider in the group of greasers. Most greasers are hoods, criminals and they all have a specific look. While Pony looks like them, he is different. He grows more like them throughout the story. At the end it’s almost like a repeating cycle. He becomes the kid he use to be again. In the

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    Nothing Gold Can Stay

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    In The Outsiders, Johnny explains that to be “gold” is to be like a kid look, and the way kids become aware of the world before they find out about the pain and hardships. Johnny's last dying words were “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.” In the poem by Robert Frost, it says the exact opposite. The poem says that “nothing gold can stay.” This means that all good things must come to an end. Another line that represents this is “leaf subsides to leaf.” It represents that even the green of the greenest

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    You are a greaser or a soc, and whichever group you land into, you hope to fit in. Johnny, Cherry, and particularly Ponyboy are all outsiders. They do not match the societal normalities, they are in the grey area. People made the two groups to feel accepted and to be with those who are like minded, however, some people fit in between the two groups. The quote “It seemed funny that the

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    Conflicted What are conflicts everyone experiences? They could be horrible and terrifying. Or maybe extremely easy. The novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is about The Curtis brothers, Darrel ‘Darry’, Sodapop ‘Soda’, and Ponyboy ‘Pony’, Johnny and Dallas ‘Dally’. The Curtis brothers lose their parents in a car accident and Darry, The oldest, has to take care of his younger brothers, Soda and Pony. One night, after a drive in movie, Ponyboy and Johnny go to the lot. They both fall asleep and lose

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    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. In chapter 12, Johnny writes in the letter, “I’ve been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy who wrote it, he meant you’re gold when you’re a kid, like green” (Hinton 178). What

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    movies: stereotyping and labeling. Just like in the Outsiders when Ponyboy and all of his gang all get stereotyped by the Socs. But mainly they would get labeled or stereotyped because of money. The socs where the rich kids thinking that if they get in trouble money gets them out but the greasers where the poor kids and that was there major difference. That is why people get killed or hurt because they think money is the key to life. In the outsiders S.E Hinton illustrates that two types of people

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    Honor Among the Lawless In the novel “The Outsiders” it is shown that although considered delinquents by society , the greasers still have honor. The Outsiders tells the story of two groups of teenagers whose bitter rivalry stems from socioeconomic differences. However, Hinton suggests, these differences in social class do not necessarily make natural enemies of the two groups. The members of the group share some things in common as showed by Pony and Cherry by relating to their shared love of literature

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    The Outsiders is a classic novel written by S.E. Hinton when she was just 16 years old, and the book was made into a blockbuster movie in 1983. In this story, two rival gangs, the Socs, are elite and rich and the Greasers, are portrayed as hoods. Two boys, Jonny and Ponboy, kill a Soc in self-defense and become delinquents. They escape the police and save children from a burning church, but Jonny dies and Pony is acquitted. The Outsiders movie portrayal includes similarities and differences to the

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    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. There are several

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