Response: In The Outsiders, the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is very important to Johnny and Ponyboy. The phrase “Nothing Gold Can Stay” means that nothing gold (something precious) can stay. In the novel, Ponyboy explains about Johnny,” He was the gang's pet, everyone's kid brother.”(Hinton, 11) It shows how Johnny is important to the Greasers. It relates to the outsiders because the phrase “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is like Johnny who holds everybody together being someone precious. And then he dies showing how he didn't stay, fitting the phrase “Nothing Gold Can Stay”. One example of when they talk about the poem is in Johnny's note. He explains what he thinks the poem means, “I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote