Near the end of the novel before Johnny’s death, he preaches, "Stay gold
Ponyboy. Stay gold" which means that Johnny wants Ponyboy to hold onto the golden qualities that set him apart from his companions, he wants him to be a good kid, he wants Ponyboy to see all the beautiful things in the world. Johnny also wants him to stay who he is because he’s golden and don’t want him to be unsuccessful in his life or hard and cold like Dallas, he said stay gold because he wants Ponyboy to be unique amongst the greasers. In the beginning Ponyboy was missing the poem meaning but after what Johnny asked him to do he figured out what the poem means. Which it reflects the boys innocence in their experiences as being Greasers, but Johnny …show more content…
Ponyboy was gold because he wasn’t like all the greasers.He understood that the differences between the socs and the greasers doesn’t create outsiders while that the government and all the other people were divided into two different groups and nobody can be friends with someone from the other group.
Ponyboy is a very clever person and he thinks older than his age which give us an advantage that he will listen to Johnny’s testament of staying gold. Maybe he lost his first chance of being gold when he went to the rumble to fight against the socs but as what I mentioned before that experiences will change someone’s life just like how the rumble changed Ponyboy. Few days after the fight Ponyboy remembered what Johnny told him so he went back on the right way and started writing the story novel that we are reading in the English class.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a small sentence with a really big meaning. If you want something gold to stay in your life you should run to it to protect it. In my body paragraphs I talked about what Johnny meant when he said “Stay Gold Ponyboy”and if Ponyboy would stay gold. I also explained the meaning of the poem. The outsiders talked how the life was in the 60s and regrettably it’s happening now in these days with the stereotypes thinking about
Ponyboy. Stay gold" which means that Johnny wants Ponyboy to hold onto the golden qualities that set him apart from his companions, he wants him to be a good kid, he wants Ponyboy to see all the beautiful things in the world. Johnny also wants him to stay who he is because he’s golden and don’t want him to be unsuccessful in his life or hard and cold like Dallas, he said stay gold because he wants Ponyboy to be unique amongst the greasers. In the beginning Ponyboy was missing the poem meaning but after what Johnny asked him to do he figured out what the poem means. Which it reflects the boys innocence in their experiences as being Greasers, but Johnny …show more content…
Ponyboy was gold because he wasn’t like all the greasers.He understood that the differences between the socs and the greasers doesn’t create outsiders while that the government and all the other people were divided into two different groups and nobody can be friends with someone from the other group.
Ponyboy is a very clever person and he thinks older than his age which give us an advantage that he will listen to Johnny’s testament of staying gold. Maybe he lost his first chance of being gold when he went to the rumble to fight against the socs but as what I mentioned before that experiences will change someone’s life just like how the rumble changed Ponyboy. Few days after the fight Ponyboy remembered what Johnny told him so he went back on the right way and started writing the story novel that we are reading in the English class.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a small sentence with a really big meaning. If you want something gold to stay in your life you should run to it to protect it. In my body paragraphs I talked about what Johnny meant when he said “Stay Gold Ponyboy”and if Ponyboy would stay gold. I also explained the meaning of the poem. The outsiders talked how the life was in the 60s and regrettably it’s happening now in these days with the stereotypes thinking about