One of my favorite books is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. It includes many moral messages for young people. A very emotional part comes when a dying youth tells his friend, “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.” This is a reference to Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay. The way it is used in The Outsiders reminds us to hold on to innocence and goodness.I was thinking of this messa...