Why does se hinton get the idea for the outsiders

And a lot of the Socs took a second look at themselves. I was there. How did you come up with some of the names? Did people really have names like Sodapop and Ponyboy? You spent a lot of time on the Outsiders movie set. What memory stands out the most? The best thing, besides working with Francis [Ford Coppola], whom I adore, was the boys. Tommy [Howell] was 15, and Rob Lowe had his 18th birthday on the set. Matt [Dillon] had just turned Tom Cruise and Emilio Estevez were just Ralph Macchio was the oldest at I loved watching that.

Rob used to call me Mom half the time. Who are you closest to now? Last time I saw him was in Vancouver. I visit Vancouver twice a year to visit the Supernatural set, so I was up there for that. And Tim Hunter was directing a Wayward Pines episode that Matt was in, so I went up a little early and we had this little reunion on the set.

I should quit calling you that. So he got me a set visit, which I immediately jumped on. I had a really good time, and I got an invitation to come back. Have you ever done a cameo? Oh, yeah! I got killed in the diner by the evil Leviathan Sam and Dean. When the Leviathan Sam and Dean were wiping everybody out, Jared [Padalecki] jumps up on a table and cocks a gun at me and starts yelling.

He just thought it was hysterical that he scared me. I was the nurse there, and I was a typing teacher in Tex.

Talk about an obsolete profession nowadays! And I was a hooker in Rumble Fish. But I always played a professional. When S. Hinton published The Outsiders in , a novel she began writing at age 15 and sold at 17, the idea of a teenager writing fiction for her peers was a novelty.

But it was a hit with teenagers across the country. Fifty years later, the book has sold upwards of 15 million copies, become a steady feature on middle school reading lists, inspired a Francis Ford Coppola film of the same name and helped shape an entire literary genre marketed to young adults.

Though the era of Socs and Greasers has long past, the adolescent dynamic Hinton picked up on remains, even though the name of the groups changes. The Outsiders captured, as if in amber, the ongoing fight at the heart of the adolescent experience — knowing that the way things stand is wrong, but being unclear how to fix it, and frustrated with older adults for continuing on, obliviously.

You can see what it should be. Unfortunately, you can see what it is, too. Just go to a restaurant instead. All of a sudden, they realized that there was a separate market for young adults. For Hinton, who almost single-handedly brought the Y. The author who changed the way that books for teens were written and published has seen her own work go from the spinning wire display rack near checkout to an online marketplace accessible while you wait for your morning latte.

Given the furor, it seemed like a propitious moment to talk to Hinton. She spoke to me over the telephone from her home in Oklahoma. Of course, I disagree.