Name five objects that mean a lot to Ponyboy and Johnny. Why?Any little info helps.

There are two things that both Ponyboy and Johnny like which are
symbolically important: sunsets and Robert Frost's poem, 'Nothing Gold Can Stay.' It is Ponyboy
who imparts an admiration of those to Johnny. Their appreciation of such things shows how both
Ponyboy and Johnny have a softer, sensitive side which is not really apparent in most of the
other Greasers. Ponyboy is particularly artistic and given to daydreaming; as the previous answer
states, he also has an interest in writing and of course the whole story is his
narrative. 

The poem, 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' comes to have a
profound meaning for Johnny. Despite being not so artistic and literate as Ponyboy, he seems to
have a greater understanding of it and he refers to it on his deathbed when he urges Ponyboy to
'stay gold'. Johnny recognizes that the 'gold' of the poem represents purity, innocence, beauty,
joy, all the good things of life and human nature which, sadly, are often all too soon stripped
away by the harsh realities of the world. Johnny has seen and suffered a lot of violence and
neglect in his life yet he never became hardened and uncaring like so many others, and he exhorts
Ponyboy to also retain the 'gold', the goodness in his nature, no matter what
happens.

The sunset also functions as an important point of
connection, when Cherry, the Soc girl, remarks that she can see it just as well from her part of
town as Ponyboy can from his. Here, the sunset is seen to link the Socs and Greasers who on the
face of it are diametrically opposed to one another. However, Ponyboy comes to understand that
underneath their different exteriors, Socs and Greasers, both being human, are really the
same.