How many of you remember this book? This is probably the book I have re-read the most. For the same reason as many of my generation have seen Star Wars more times than any other movie… I read this book at least a couple dozen times a year in my teens. I don’t know why I love this book so much, I just know that there are parts of it that I can still recite without too much effort.
I don’t know if I related to Ponyboy or Jonny Cakes more. Or maybe it was the whole “I don’t belong” and feeling caught in circumstances beyond my control.
I do know that the poem by Robert Frost featured in the book has stuck with me my whole life. (I was going to attempt to write it out by memory, but I didn’t want to mis quote, so I have looked it up. I could have done it though)
Stay Gold
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.
I have always tried to live by Jonny’s last words to Ponyboy.
Give an example of how you live by those words in the comments, if you know them.
