JuliaW_E2’s Reviews > The Outsiders > Status Update

I really like the poem that Ponyboy told Johnny:
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf's a flower,
But only so an hour,
So eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
This represents in this book that some people are still "Gold". Which means that they are honest and pure. Ponyboy used that poem to describe Johnny and him before " the incident".

There are 2 gangs in where Ponyboy lives, the Greasers and the SOCS. Later in the book you will begin to notice that most of them are "born" in the groups even if they didn't want to be apart of it. After Ponyboy talks to one of the SOCS he finds out that they both are human and have emotions, and the only thing that basically separates them is the amount of money they own.

So far in the book the protagonist Ponyboy has ran away with his friend Johnny, not long before they ran away from home they bumped into some SOC's and something really bad happened that made them have to really run away for good. Before the book wasn't that attention catching but now more events has happened and they had a few problems. so now I really want to know what will happen next in the book.

In the book The Outsiders the protagonist is called Ponyboy. He is in the lower-class gang called The Greasers. So far I believe one of his character traits is that he is really observant. For example 1 night when they were driving the girls home he notices that on of the boys from the blue mustang had three rings. Which tells him that, that boy is one of the guys that had beaten his friend Johnny up really badly.