outsider's essay
... The gold that ponyboy did have but didn’t last was the conditions of existence dictate that everything loses its initial innocence. Before the murder of Bob the soc Ponyboy and Johnny were free they had a clean record but when Johnny killed the soc and Ponyboy spat on him to show his rage they now, have no more innocence. The gold was there clean record which didn’t last for ever because they killed Bob the soc and spat on him to show anger which then made there gold disappear. 4. Think that this poem can be both a sad and happy poem but I believe that the poem is more so sad than happy because the poem reflects the sad losses of the greasers but especially of Ponyboy and Johnny. It also talks about the things they gave up for example the way Darry dropped out of high school to support the family when there parents passed away in the car crash, by working two jobs just to put a roof over the heads of his two smaller brothers Sodapop who is 17 years old and Ponyboy who is 14 years old. Vocabulary Development: Premonition Premonition: a feeling that something unpleasant is going to happen or occur 2. The premonition that Ponyboy is having a bad feeling about is the church being caught on fire and the police coming and giving them the electric chair. The reason that it gives him a bad feeling is that Dally said that if you keep on somking those “cancer sticks “ you will get sick, and that got Ponyboy thinking if he keeps on smoking those “cancer sticks” and by accident she left on that was still lit the church would burn down the ground and they would be in double the trouble than before. 3. The list of things I would put in the set design would be: - hard, cold stone floor - real old, spooky and spiderwebby design - dingy, dusty glass - small cracks that allow wind to travel trough them - pieces of broken glass on the floor - huge stain glass window in the middle - rusty and squeaky door hinges - rows of seats with dust covering them - larg...