Thursday+9-18-08

 1)     What would your advice be to Johnny and Ponyboy if they’d come to you for help instead of Dally?

 2)     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.

 3)     On page 78 (or page 70 if you are at Trinity), Johnny compares Pony and his brothers to their parents. Which one of your parents are you most like? What similarities do you share?

4) 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?

5) If you had read about Johnny and Ponyboy in the newspaper (page 95 if you are at Trinity, page 107 if you are in Colorado), how would you have reacted to the events? Would you have considered them heroes? Or juvenile delinquents? Why? 