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Commentary On The Story 'The Outsiders' By S. E.
Pony boy not to change. If you are wealthy, does it make you better than people who are not? Just because they are different, and do not have enough money to afford material things. Does it make you better and more of a person? If you think that you are right, then you are incorrect. Just because you have a lot of money, it does not make you more of a person, and it does not make you better at all. I mean big whoop, you drive a nice car, and have nice clothes. Guess what, when you cut yourself, you bleed red blood. Do you want to hear something that is really going to get you? Inside your body, your blood is blue and we are human so of course were going to bleed the same and have similar things alike were not that different. Look around, like the girl that is always sitting in the front of the class, she has dressed …show more content…
I mean really looked around, at the people and noticed beside the money, fame, or being poor. That were all not so different, I mean take away all the money and fame away the celebrities and forget about people’s wealth that we’re would all be just ordinary regular people. We all bleed, red blood when we cut ourselves, we all hurt and have emotions and rights we are all humans. Reading this incredible story “The Outsiders” By S.E. Hinton was an inspirational book it opened my eyes to such other things that is more important that is going on in the world. I’ve learned a valuable lesson, like to stay gold like the poem in the book. Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold, her leaf’s a flower, but only as an hour, then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief. So dawn goes down to day nothing gold can stay. I am guessing by that he means nothing good stays, because you are a kid, everything is new and you are pure and innocent, and when you get older, everything changes Like Johnny was telling Pony boy to stay gold , he was telling pony boy to stay good and b himself and not

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