I think the poem, Nothing gold can stay mean the boring of a plant is very precious like gold. That gold can’t stay for a long time, only one hour. Then the flower fall down and another leaf grow. The precious thing can’t stay for long. Eden, the holy place also becomes sad at last. The beautiful dawn also can’t stay for a long time, it also need go down. That is that poem mean.
In Outsiders, the character like Ponyboy and Johnny, they born as their own person. But they join gangs later and they don’t stay gold anymore. They become greasers, a class instead of themselves. Everyone else knows them as greasers instead of themselves. So Johnny want to become his own person and want other people know him as Johnny instead of greaser. So he cut his hair off. He also save a lot of children in fire although he died at last, other people know Johnny is a hero instead of he is a greaser. They don’t care about the greasers. So Johnny achieves his dream. In his last words, he wants Ponyboy do some good thing and stay gold.
In Outsiders, the character like Ponyboy and Johnny, they born as their own person. But they join gangs later and they don’t stay gold anymore. They become greasers, a class instead of themselves. Everyone else knows them as greasers instead of themselves. So Johnny want to become his own person and want other people know him as Johnny instead of greaser. So he cut his hair off. He also save a lot of children in fire although he died at last, other people know Johnny is a hero instead of he is a greaser. They don’t care about the greasers. So Johnny achieves his dream. In his last words, he wants Ponyboy do some good thing and stay gold.