Outsiders book questions: 1) when ponyboy and johnny were at the park they were in greaser territory. why do you think the socs crossed this invisible boundary and went to the park to fight the boys? 2) when johnny tells dally about killing bob, dally grins and replies, “good for you.” why do you think dally responded like this? (page 60) 3) at the end of chapter 5, ponyboy recites a poem called, “nothing gold can stay.” what does the poem mean (think about theme)? can you relate it to something in life?

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man