S. Hinton's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'

Everywhere around the world, for 21 centuries, all men and women, boys and girls, lose their innocence and cannot gain it back. The Outsiders is a book of depression, death, fear, grief, and a group of friends that act tough but are soft of the insides. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost describes a character in the Outsiders by S.E Hinton in metaphorical ways.

The first line of this delightful poem is “Nature's first green is gold”. In literal terms this line means that there is new growth in spring is cherished. When the poet states “Nature’s first green is gold” he means spring is nature’s first green with all of the green grass and flowers that are worth gold are cherished. During the springtime I adore the beautiful flowers and grass that are in the scenery of my meadow of a backyard. This first line means that Johnny from the Outsiders was an innocent 16 year old boy. Metaphorical this beginning line means that humans are born innocent, and Johnny was born an innocent boy who had many hardships. Everyone in the world is born as an innocent child weather your parents are killers of thieves, you are born faultless.

Subside is a synonym for fall, and during autumn leafs begin to fall and die. During this autumn season I always begin to get depressed because all of the beautiful leafs start to descend. For some animals this is a hard time, but for Johnny his hardship was when his parents abused him and ignored him. “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house.” Johnny was mistreated because his parents weren't concerned about