"I barely heard him. I came closer and leaned over to hear what he was going to say. 'Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold …' The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died." These were the last words past between Johnny and Ponyboy before the demise of Johnny. I think that Johnny's final words relate to the theme of stereotyping.
Stereotyping is displayed throughout this whole book. The world just assumes that greasers are cold mean hoods and that is all there is too them. The world also views the socs as nothing more than snobby rich kids. Not every character in this story follows these stereotypes. I think that the quote relates to not everyone being a stereotypic greaser or a stereotypical soc. Johnny is telling Ponyboy to stay golden which I think means to stay the way he is which is being a non stereotypical greaser. Johnny defies all of the stereotypes given to greasers. He is not mean but in fact nice and caring. He doesn’t like participating in the events that the gang does but occasionally does it anyways because everyone else does. Johnny completely defies the stereotypes given to greasers.
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