The meaning of RENEGADE is a person who changes his religion and goes to another religion. In this work renegade is used as a simile: it means to say all men are renegades - how? All men are born innocent: as children we are all innocent. We do not know the outside world; we are inwardly glad ourselves. But as we grow up, we know the world; we feel joy at the outside world. We come to know beauty, we come to have ambition. We come love and friendship, and the like. Thus when we enter life we are all renegades. The story of the book involves the main character in love and friendship. But he picks a bad friend, and he brings great sadness and frustration in life, to the point of heart-stroke.