This book report was done for S.E. Hinton's novel, THE OUTSIDERS. In my essay, I explore the quote, "stay gold" and it's meaning. I used a poem that was in the novel to express this topic (the poem is by Robert Frost). What it basically is about is the cycle of life. Title: "Stay Gold" I have just recently completed reading S.E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders. The author raises many topics faced by …showed first 75 words of 558 total…

…showed last 75 words of 558 total…that almost anyone who can do something a little childish once in a while will be able to stay gold. The poem is all about the cycle of life and about how short the best part of it is. Being a child is one of the only times in life where you get to try so many new things in such a short period of time. So staying gold means just being young at heart.