How Does Johnny Change In The Outsiders

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As it goes with the Greasers, it means sometime the Greasers may change into something else, maybe become Neutral or be rich. It has a lot of meaning for Ponyboy and Johnny due to the fact the change in the story instead of being perfect. Such as Darry will change later on in the story, Johnny changed before the story, he was perfect as of not being scared of Socs at all to becoming mostly terrified of them, and Ponyboy usually taking Darry’s yelling to talking back at him. Ponyboy’s “tuff” hair went from perfect or beautiful to, not so perfect and beautiful. Soda will be the same, although there’s no change in him throughout the story, other characters change, Darry changes, Ponyboy changes, Dally slightly changed, Johnny changed, everyone changed. They all changed, Who knows, Dally may have been a good kid, he was probably gold, then once he got older he wasn’t gold anymore and he turned into a hoodlum, all of …show more content…
In the poem it says “Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold.” It shows that Spring struggles to keep the green leaves and by the time Fall comes all the green leaves die, and Eden’s paradise is no more. The leaves die one day or another, the grass will die one day, trees will burn, vegetation will burn, nothing is able to stay perfect or beautiful. Everything has a time limit for how long they can stay perfect or how long something or someone can stay beautiful. People always say “I’ll always be beautiful!” You can’t stay beautiful, you don’t like in a fairytale or myth that you can stay beautiful, it will fade, it will leave, you can’t keep perfectness, beside no one is ever perfect. People can be beautiful but they can’t always be beautiful, when they age their looks go away, their nice looking hair turns gray or white and they develop wrinkles, and you trade in your beautifulness for years of knowledge and

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