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This image represents Pony's innocence as a flower, surrounded by death and  things that want to hurt him, like Cacti. It's hard for Ponyboy to keep his innocence when he's in an environment like that, but somehow he manages to.

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"Can you see the sunset real good from the west side?" Ponyboy, page

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In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the author develops the theme of loss of innocence throughout the story with characters, events, and plot. An example of her doing this is the act of Johnny killing Bob. Johnny was once pure and innocent, still "gold." he had never participated in the horrible acts that his gangmates did, although it was hard sometimes. But Johnny had no choice but to kill Bob and lose the innocence he so deeply valued to save Ponyboy. As the story progresses, Hinton puts more emphasis on innocence, especially when Johnny dies and the full weight of his words is put onto Ponyboy. Ponyboy realizes that the words "stay gold" mean that he should stay pure. Johnny does not want his loss of innocence to be in vain when he says this. But, Ponyboy eventually does lose his innocence when he threatens the Socs. At that point, he was so tired of losing everyone that he didn't want to be innocent in a world of corruption, it was too hard. So when he had the bottle that time, he was going to use it for good, and keep on doing bad things. In the novel, the author uses characters, events, and the plot to create the theme of losing innocence.

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Example 6- Ponyboy threatening with the bottle

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Example 6- Ponyboy threatening with the bottle

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After the rumble with the greasers and socs, Ponyboy is no longer innocent as he used to be. He's tired of trying to help and has just given up on everything after the deaths of his friends. So when the socs approach him, he won't hesitate to hurt them. His innocence is gone, replaced by hatred.
"I've had about all I can take from you guys," he says.

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The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is about loss of innocence and reveals that  even when times are rough, a person should hold onto their happiness and innocence even when it seems like the whole world is trying to take it from them.

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When Dally gives the gun to Pony,  it is a sign that their innocence is being compromised. Innocence is all about staying pure and not doing anything horrifying like the members of their gang. The gun is a sign that Johnny's innocence is gone and they will never be the same.

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When Ponyboy recites the poem, he's not really sure what it means. But Johnny, on the other hand, realizes what it means and knows that he is no longer "gold."
"'Yeah,' he said with a sigh. "I guess we're different.'" (78)

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When Johnny killed Bob, he lost the semblance of innocence that he had. He'd never committed an act of impurity, but after killing Bob he did something bad and lost his sense of purity.
These flowers represent Johnny losing his sense of innocence and losing the "gold" that he once had.
"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold," Ponyboy recites during sunrise at the church. (77)

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