Hinton at her publisher's recommendation. There was a fear that boys might not be interested in the novel if they knew it was published by a female writer. The name of the novel was a whole other issue. Though the book's title seems obvious now, at the time, Hinton and her publisher struggled with a name. She and her publisher sent lists of titles back and forth via mail and telegram.
The feeling of being an outsider is universal, and it's part of the appeal of the book. The Outsiders is one of the best-selling young adult novels of all time and is part of the reading curriculum in schools around the world. In , a group of students in California loved the book so much that they petitioned for it to be made into a film. Their teacher wrote a letter, including their petition, to Francis Ford Coppola , who had recently directed The Godfather series and Apocalypse Now.
Within two years, Coppola began shooting the film and it was released in theatres in Coppola also decided to shoot the film in Tulsa, so Hinton was able to be involved with every aspect of the movie.
Thomas Howell, who played Ponyboy. Hinton was a constant presence on set and became quite close with the actors in the film. So I immediately took on the job of being their den mother," laughs Hinton. But then you get them in front of a camera and they're serious actors and it was just amazing to watch.
She says she and the actors try to get together whenever they're in the same town. O'Connor grew up in Brooklyn and says that when he saw the film as a teenager it changed his life.
I was one of the those kids who wasn't well-read," O'Connor says. He says once he read the book, he loved it even more. O'Connor now says he's Hinton's biggest fan. Last year, he bought the Tulsa house in which Darry, Sodapop and Ponyboy lived in the film. He's now restoring it and hopes to open it as a museum by the end of the year. Greasers see it as their duty, Ponyboy says, to stand up for each other in the face of enemies and authorities. In particular, we see acts of honorable duty from Dally Winston, a character who is primarily defined by his delinquency and lack of refinement.
Ponyboy informs us that once, in a show of group solidarity, Dally let himself be arrested for a crime that Two-Bit had committed. Furthermore, when discussing Gone with the Wind, Johnny says that he views Dally as a Southern gentleman, as a man with a fixed personal code of behavior. As hostile and dangerous as the greaser-Soc rivalry becomes, the boys from each group have the comfort of knowing how their male friends will react to their male enemies.
When Randy and Bob approach Ponyboy and Johnny, everyone involved knows to expect a fight of some sort. It is only when the female members of the Soc contingent start to act friendly toward the greasers that animosities blur and true trouble starts brewing. With these plot elements, Hinton conveys the idea that cross-gender interaction creates unpredictable results.
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