Loyalty, sometimes it is good and sometimes it is bad. In The Outsiders, the author S.E. Hinton shows many acts of loyalty from the greasers. From good to bad there are many ways of showing these acts of loyalty.
On way of showing loyalty is that Ponyboy stay with the greasers, but also questions their decisions. He is anti-aggressive, he does not like to fight but he will act like he will to protect himself. He also does not agree with how two-bit steals a lot of thing, that is something that Ponyboy would never do. Ponyboy says, “ Stay gold.” he was refering back the the poem by Robert Frost called Nothing Gold Can Stay. (P. 148) to Jonny, meaning stay good and to not make terrible decisions like some of the ones other