Nothing Gold Can Stay

The gang can help you and give you mental and physical support. For example, when Ponyboy was doubting that Darry loves him, the gang encouraged him and told him that Darry just has a different way to show it. Soda says “ ‘It's just because…

Where do you take place in society? What does that place mean to you? The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton makes you wonder how your place would change if you were in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. Would you be considered a low class, poor greaser? Or would you be a wealthy, living the high life Social? No matter how you answered those questions, you should read The Outsiders. The narrator of this book is a fourteen year old boy names Ponyboy Curtis. Yes, that is, in fact, his real name. One of his brothers…

Steve: considers soda and pony his kid brothers and works at the gas station with soda Ponyboy: 14, the youngest greaser and loves to read which sets him apart from the others and lives with soda and darry Johnny: he’s 16 and considers the greasers as his real family and he is nervous and sensitive. Soda: Everyone thinks he’s good looking he works at the gas station Darry: nickname is superman, he’s the leader of the greasers he’s twenty-two and works two jobs and is pony and sodas older brother…

strong, telling Ponyboy to stay himself, also all the times Johnny’s parents abused him he still went to meat up with all the greasers and still manage to be himself. Dally ability to keep his cool when in stressful situations and his advice to Pony about staying tough. Throughout the book, spending time with Dally and Johnny, Ponyboy becomes a better person adopting Dally’s confidence and toughness and Johnny’s ability to keep him together when times are hard and to always stay who he is.…

In a split society with Greasers, the hoods, the lower class and Socs, the higher class rich white boys. Ponyboy Curtis who is a 14 year old greaser lives at home he tends to be alone an outsider. His has two brothers Sodapop and Darrel Curtis who they call Darry. Ponyboy’s parents died in a car crash( so he is raised by Darry, He cared about Ponyboy, he cared about his grades (Hinton,9) Ponyboy had to adapt to these changes. Ponyboy had to grow up, these changes were hard but Ponyboy…

would instruct him to relate and parallel his actions and experiences to Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” in a short essay. I would do this because, as Ponyboy’s English teacher, I would want him to further analyze the poem and find it relatable to his life. I would also want Ponyboy to realize what Robert Frost was writing about. I think that Ponyboy would relate to the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” through Johnny’s gallant and dauntless death, his short lived youth and innocence ,…

see many trends. This may include things pertaining to the American dream, love, or like both The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, loss and impermanence. Both Fitzgerald and Frost examine how difficult it is to hold onto something In Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, he states that, “nature’s first green is gold, the hardest hue to hold” (Frost 1-2). In this statement he is talking about how hard it is to keep hold of something great. Frost…

Robert Frost had a political reference in the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". He wrote about the ending of the world. That could have been one of the reasons he decided to title it that. He wrote about how when the end comes, that the Earth won't stay. He also could have been talking about childhood in his poem. When you are little, everything is new to you, and when it's not new anymore, it can be sad. The poem is a descriptive poem that could also be confessional because of his reference about…

2011 after reading the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost. Gold is a valuable chemical element with hue that is held to great stature, “Nothing gold can stay” as interpreted by me means that the things we value that are “gold” to us will not stay with forever whether it be physically or mentally. I also use my tattoo as a manta, meaning that even though gold is cherished the glaze will fade eventually and knowing this I can cherish the people I consider to be gold in my life, as they…

He says in the first line “Natures first green is gold”, later on, he says, “Then leaf subsides with leaf. - So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. - Nothing gold can stay”. This all shows us that we should appreciate rare opportunities in life because they don’t last forever and they don’t come around often. Frost shows us that nothing is immortal. “Mending Wall” is one of the greatest poems written by Robert Frost. The literal…