Week+2+Discussion

1) What do you think this poem is saying? How might this apply to the characters in the novel?

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost 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.

2) On page 78, Johnny compares Pony and his brothers to their parents. Which one of your parents are you most like? What similarities do you share?

3) The bond between Johnny and Dally seems especially strong. Why do you think that is so? Why would those two characters have such a strong relationship?

4) If you had read about Johnny and Ponyboy in the newspaper (page 107), how would you have reacted to the events? Would you have considered them heroes? Or juvenile delinquents? Why?

5) “Maybe people are younger when they are asleep” (p. 104). What do you think about this comment?

6) Why did Pony think it was better to see socs as “just guys” on p. 118? What do you think he means by this?