Passage: “ Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower: But only so an hour. Then subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. … ‘Robert Frost wrote it. He meant more to it then i'm gettin’, though.’ ”
(77- 78)
This poem is said by ponyboy to Johnny in chapter 4. This is when Johnny and Ponyboy had woken early and decided to watch the sun rise. S.E Hinton picked this for many reasons. The poem relates to the characters as well as the tone of the story. If you pick the poem apart, it has a deeper meaning. The title is “Natures first green is gold.” Gold in that phrase has another meaning though apart from the obvious shiny metal gold is in reality. Gold is the underling good in people, and to continue down the poem. Robert Frost is using the change of the seasons by starting with birth and explaining how life can be as short as a sunrise to convey and relate to peoples everyday lives.
But besides what the passages general meaning in the context of all life, S.E Hinton specifically took Frost’s words into her text. To relate something as broad as the changes of life and the world to a character in a book must have been a very hard connection to make. I am almost sure that one day S.E Hinton did not just have a light bulb just go off and The Outsiders was born. Hinton related the change of Johnny to the course of life. Johnny changed his approach to everything. Instead of letting someone else in the gang handle something for him, when he ran away Johnny was forced to live life on his own and stop being treated as the pet. Little Johnny-Cakes ran away as the pet and returned as a brave greaser who had saved Ponyboy. Change is a big part of life; Robert Frost and S.E Hinton displayed this well together.
(77- 78)
This poem is said by ponyboy to Johnny in chapter 4. This is when Johnny and Ponyboy had woken early and decided to watch the sun rise. S.E Hinton picked this for many reasons. The poem relates to the characters as well as the tone of the story. If you pick the poem apart, it has a deeper meaning. The title is “Natures first green is gold.” Gold in that phrase has another meaning though apart from the obvious shiny metal gold is in reality. Gold is the underling good in people, and to continue down the poem. Robert Frost is using the change of the seasons by starting with birth and explaining how life can be as short as a sunrise to convey and relate to peoples everyday lives.
But besides what the passages general meaning in the context of all life, S.E Hinton specifically took Frost’s words into her text. To relate something as broad as the changes of life and the world to a character in a book must have been a very hard connection to make. I am almost sure that one day S.E Hinton did not just have a light bulb just go off and The Outsiders was born. Hinton related the change of Johnny to the course of life. Johnny changed his approach to everything. Instead of letting someone else in the gang handle something for him, when he ran away Johnny was forced to live life on his own and stop being treated as the pet. Little Johnny-Cakes ran away as the pet and returned as a brave greaser who had saved Ponyboy. Change is a big part of life; Robert Frost and S.E Hinton displayed this well together.
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