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Natures First Green Is Gold In The Outsiders

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Everywhere everyplace, and every time that you pass by something there is a message within it. The author of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton has made it a strong point that the book relates to the poem by Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay. Messages and themes in novel can be related to another piece of text no matter the size. “Natures first green is gold” is the is the first phrase of the poem; in the novel this means that Humans are innocent. This shows when Pony is talking to himself about the socials. “I really couldn’t see what Socs would have to sweat about-good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs- Man,I thought, if I had worries like that I’d consider myself Lucky.” This is an example that Pony at this point is innocent and he has not yet been exposed, he doesn't know the struggles there is as a Soc. …show more content…

“Johnny’s ears got red. I was still in staring at him. It had taken more than nerve for him to say what he’d said to Dally-”. Johnny was still innocent at the time and this shows because his ears got red out of nerves. Johnny was scared of the consequences he had never spoken out against a rule before. “Then leaf subsides to leaf” meaning the many hardships in life. There are many hardships in this book as there is in life. When Sodapop had to get rid of his horse Mickey Mouse. “...Soda had bawled all night long after they came and got Mickey Mouse. For Soda this was a hardship that he will always remember and set him back at the time. When Johnny died it tore everyone apart. “Oh dammit Johnny, don’t die,please don’t die… He suddenly bolted through the door and down the hall.” All the boys in the gang went different ways and they all took time to grieve and deal with the current

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