Does she think they don’t have words? Does she think that by virtue of being focused on images and dialogue that they aren’t books? Does she believe that the prose of The Outsiders is so golden and special that to adapt it would be to destroy it? She certainly didn’t have a problem when they made the book into a movie in 1983. It may be influential but it’s certainly not “the first book many people read” and it’s pretty self-important for Hinton, who wrote the novel in her teens and has not published a major work in decades, to say so.īut what’s more grating is Hinton’s misunderstanding of graphic novels. This is a book about juvenile gang violence in the 1960s. The Outsiders is not, by any measure “the first book many people read in their life.” I’d give that title to, I don’t know, Goodnight Moon or Green Eggs and Ham. Does she mean the first book without pictures or a chapter book? Again I don’t think so. Not that they can turn the pages on a graphic novel. No The Outsiders is the first book many people read in their life & it shows them they CAN read a book. Her answer was both ignorant and arrogant. The authors of The Outsiders was asked today if she’d ever consider allowing the YA novel to be adapted into a graphic novel. Hinton, who is famous for writing one novel that many people were forced to reading high school, is at it again with the bad opinions on what constitutes writing and reading.
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