Rumble Fish Book Review

Rumble Fish
S.E. Hinton
Teen Fiction
Rusty James is the main character. One of the most important and memorable events that he was part of a gang and he had never lost any fights. Also his brother was the strongest person in town. Rusty James had got into many gang fights before and had been stabbed many times. One time he was in a fight with a person that had just been doing drugs right before the fight and he did not want to fight fair. When they were about to fight he pulled out a knife and tried to stab him. Then he got a bike chain and Rusty James was winning the fight but then the motorcycle boy came and Rusty James started to stare at him. Then the guy that Rusty James was fighting stood up and stabbed Rusty James right across the side of his ribs. He fell to the floor and the Motorcycle boy went over and broke the guy’s wrist. Rusty James got up and was bleeding badly but he said that it wasn’t that bad so he didn’t go to the hospital. Then Rusty James got into another fight with a guy that he met in an ally way. He almost died because the guy had punched him so hard. Steve, Rusty James’s best friend thought he was dead so he started to yell and scream at him. Then the motorcycle boy came and punched one guy and the other guy was so scared that he ran away. Rusty James then had to go to the hospital. He had a bruise the side of a baseball. When he got out of the hospital, he went to a shop called Benny’s and he saw someone with his girlfriend. He then asked the guy to come outside with him but he said that he didn’t want to fight but Rusty James said that he wasn’t going to fight him. One day he was following the motorcycle boy around and he broke into the pet store and let all of the animals free but he died. Rusty James tried to run away but they caught him and sent him to juvenile. When he got back then lost all of his status in the gang and moved away. When Steve asked him to meet him at dinner and talk about the good old days he didn’t want to because he wanted to forget what happened back then because his childhood was so bad and he wanted to get as far away from it as possible.
Rusty James is the main character. He is very strong and his father is a drunk. His brother is the Motorcycle boy. I think that they are realistic because if you didn’t have a mother and you father was a drunk you wouldn’t be brought up properly and you would get into gangs and other terrible stuff. His father is a drunk that has no money and his son is a leader of a gang and strong. I like the characters because they are all very determined to get what they want but they have a very hard life so I would not want to be any of them. The importance of the story is to forget about the past and carry on with your life.