Journal #3

I am going to talk about Rusty James. He is very strong and has never lost a gang fight before so he is very strong. His brother is also the strongest person in town. At the begging of the book, before a fight his eyes would always see red but near the end of the book that stopped happening and he didn’t want to fight anymore. Everybody else is afraid of him except for the Motorcycle boy but near the end of the book someone took his girlfriend and he was supposed to fight him but he didn’t want to fight anymore because he had almost died in a fight. Rusty James is very important in this novel because he is one of the strongest people in town and is part of a gang and is the leader. I would not want to be the main character because his dad is a drunk and he is part of a gang so he has a very hard life. He also almost died and has many knife cuts. I would rather be a friend of the main character because I would not get in as much trouble as him or probably not as many fights.