In every society, in every community, in everyone's life, people are faced to be unheard. Ponyboy is a greaser from the book Outsiders who has lost his parents and is living with his brothers and his gang.The greaser gang is more of a poorer gang than you would the socs being a rich gang. The poem Nothing Gold can Stay by Robert Frost is represented in themes throughout the book Outsiders. Although these two pieces of writing may have differences, they also have similarities too. One theme you can make from the book and poem is there are marvelous things that don’t stay. This theme relates to the book Outsiders because when Ponyboy and Johnny are on Jay Mountain the mist was silver and gold and Ponyboy said it wouldn’t stay. “The mist was what was pretty…” “ Too bad it couldn’t stay like that all the time.” This text relates to the theme because with …show more content…
This theme means that if someone is having their life go down the drain, you can change and become a new person. Therefore, this theme relates to the book Outsiders because at the end of the book Ponyboy is going to be better in school and is going to change after he faced running from the police, friends dying, and going to court. “How to start writing about something that was important to me. And finally it began like this: When I stepped into the brightness of the sunlight from the darkness of the movie house I only had to things on my mind Paul Newman and a ride home…” This piece of text relates to the theme because it shows you how Ponyboy is going to change and be more focused before all the bad things happened. This theme also relates to the poem Nothing Gold can Stay too.This theme relates to the poem because the poem Nothing Gold can Stay is basically a story of how something grows and falls/dies and goes through life. “ Nature’s first green is gold.” This piece of the poem represents the start of a new