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I think most writers really want to solve something about their
own lives. I think The Pigman represented a problem solving for
me in that I took two kids who had no sense of responsibility
toward an adult community, who had a cynical view of life. One
of the kids in particular was one who I knew from real life who
used to drink and smoke and curse and do all sorts of wild and
crazy things, which meant he was good for an action adventure.
But I felt that this character should come to terms with some
responsibility about his own life. So, as a writer, I thought like
that character, John Conlan, and his partner Lorraine Jensen.
And I assigned them the problem which I wanted to solve for
myself: How was I going to find responsibility in the world?
That’s one of the reasons why I think The Pigman probably is
successful now, because it triggers discussions with kids about
problems that are very important to them. I think that’s just the
way that books work and what’s behind all authors writing
books, whether they know it or not. We write stories that are
going to solve a problem, and what a wonderful job it is to assign
characters elements that bother us in our own lives and then to
live through a story where they go conflict against conflict, and
reach an epiphany and insight and some answer to the problem.
And I think that’s where the final lines of The Pigman come in.
We build our own cages, which is what the kids finally realize at
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