We read the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and the poem “Nothing Gold can stay” by Robert Frost. The Outsiders is about two groups of people that fight a lot, and “Nothing Gold can Stay” is about life. The theme of The Outsiders is divided community, and the theme of the poem is that nothing good can stay forever. The theme of chapter one is divided community. The soc’s like to jump the greasers.
Johnny took action by stabbing the soc and killing him. So johnny and ponyboy started panicking and they went to visit dally. Dally gave them a safehouse money and a gun to keep them safe. The boys migrate to that safe house and stayed there untill dally
Dally or Dallas Winston was a seventeen year old. He was the toughest and most dangerous member of the gang as a result of his time spent in New York. He had a tough childhood, and was arrested at the age of 10. He identifies with Johnny because of how both of their parents treated them. Johnny idolises him, and Johnny is the only one who Dally loves, according to Ponyboy.
That shows that Johnny wanted Ponyboy to stay the way he is, liking sunsets just like an example, but also because he’s soft and hates hurting people. He wants Dally to look at sunsets, and to appreciate things for once, and that might make him become gold again. Dally, also, who committed suicide after hearing that Johnny died didn’t stay
(Add a one sentence summary of Lily’s speech and insert here.) The poem that is read in The Outsiders, called “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, by Robert Frost, supports the claim that one should be content with what one has because greatness never stays for long, and causes more sorrow than happiness. The poem states that, “Nature’s first green is gold; Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour” (Frost 1-4).
Also while the boys are at the church in Windrixville Ponyboy gets his hair cut and bleached and Johnny gets his haircut and take all the
All in all, the permanent theme of S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is nothing gold can stay; Nothing good lasts forever. In other words, this means that good times always come to and end happiness cannot thrive too far, you're never having too much joy in life. Early in the book , and in the boys lives there is an underlying message that tells the reader nothing gold can stay. When Soda was ten, he got a horse named Mickey Mouse, He loved the horse and then later it was sold.
It is the giving you the message that you cannot always get what\ you want and can’t have everything. Something in your life will happen whether someone important to you dies or someone in your family gets diagnosed with a harsh disease. Furthermore, it is giving you the idea that all good must come to an end. In addition, the title also helps build up the theme. The title “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, it is pretty much saying that not anything gold, is able to stay.
A part of the poem that sustains the meaning of “Stay gold” can include, “Her early leaf’s a flower;/ But only do an hour./ Then leaf subsides to leaf.” This piece of “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” includes how quickly a golden moment can last “only so an hour.” This can relate to The Outsiders that shows how quick a golden moment lasts. From the poem, when a golden moment ends, everything goes away like from a flower, “leaf subsides to leaf.”
After Johnny died, Ponyboy denied it all, becoming delusional to the fact he was dead and blaming himself for the killing of Bob. Dally then couldn’t take the death of Johnny and basically killed himself by luring the police in to come and shoot him. This connects to the theme because Ponyboy is focusing on Johnny and on the past instead of paying attention to the present and believing that Johnny is dead. Both my quotes are of Ponyboy denying Johnny’s death. “Johnny was dead.
Within every character, in every scene, on either side of town, important lessons can be learned to turn the community around. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, several roles portrayed could use some lessons being depicted in the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” written by Robert Frost. Tough hoods on the East Side of town and the snobs of the West Side, also known as Greasers and Socs have very different stories but could learn a lot from each other if they were willing to put aside their differences. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is all about the diminishing of the gold soul you had the chance to keep. A mass group of characters from the novel can take the themes presented in the poem to heart, whether they’re from the East or West side.
All of Pony’s greaser gang rescues him and chases the Socs away. Pony is okay, but shaken up. Later in the novel, Pony, Johnny, and Dally go to the Nightly double and meet Cherry Valance and Marcia. It, for the most part, goes well.
Also, most of the characters changed: Two-Bit; Ponyboy became more belligerent; Soda Pop changed for Sandy; Darry’s and Ponyboy’s relationship was mended. The other themes that also work for this particular story is society and class, loyalty, love, violence, appearances, and choices. Many of these themes ran along with the story, and sometimes were demonstrated
This shows how he gained back his self-confidence and his ability to stand up for himself. Johnny finally found his acceptance from Dally when Dally said, “We’re all so proud of you” (148). When Dally said that Ponyboy noticed Johnny’s eyes glowing, “Dally was proud of him... That was all he ever wanted” (148). In the letter he wrote to Ponyboy, “It’s worth saving those kids...
Johnny shows Ponyboy that the world isn’t corrupt with mean people and that it is still full of good. Johnny stated in the note Ponyboy found in the book Gone With The Wild that it is was worth saving the kids even if it meant his life. He also stated that the poem in the book meant “He meant you’re gold when you’re a kid,like green… and don’t get bugged over being a greaser. You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world” (Hinton 178-9).
