.★★★★★
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Man oh man what a good book. I guess that's why they call it a classic. There's so many things I liked about it, the fact that we're all the same, maybe just grew up in a different place, different parents, but when it comes down to it we all are the same deep down. It was interesting seeing how a group of boys can grow up under unfortunate circumstances yet be so strong, loyal and always looking out for eachother.
This part of the book blew me away:
“Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
And the ever famous Frost poem in the book:
“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 today.
Nothing gold can stay."
- Robert Frost
I really liked Jonny's meaning of the poem:
"I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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Finished Reading: July 8, 2016
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