The Outsiders: Nothing Gold can stay

THE OUTSIDERS a novel written by a teenager!

"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold."

Our class is going to read The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton.

So what is The Outsiders about?

Here is a brief idea:

P onyboy Curtis belongs to a lower-class group of Oklahoma youths who call themselves greasers because of their greasy long hair. Walking home from a movie, Ponyboy is attacked by a group of Socs, the greasers’ rivals, who are upper-class youths from the West Side of town. The Socs, short for Socials, gang up on Ponyboy and threaten to slit his throat. A group of greasers comes and chases the bullies away, saving Ponyboy.

What do you think happens now?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Nothing Gold can stay

This poem is in The Outsiders, Johnny reads it at the church. You need to comment on this poem, discuss the content, poetic techniques; such as rhyme,alliteration, personal narrative and metaphors and discuss why the poem is so important to Johnny and then Ponyboy.

Nature's first green is gold

Her hardest hue to hold

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

by Robert Frost