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Book Title: Rumble Fish

Author: S.E.Hinton

Number of Pages: 135

Genre: Fiction

Setting Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Time Period: Mid-1960s

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Rusty James- Rusty-James is a fourteen-year-old kid who feels he can achieve any thing in life with his fists. He is the number-one tough guy among the junior high kids who hang out and shoot pool at Benny's, and he enjoys keeping up his reputation. What he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. Rusty-James confesses himself that he isn't a particularly smart person, and he relies more on his fists than his brains. Every time he gets into trouble, which he can't handle, his brother is there to help him out. Rusty-James' lack of direction, causes him to …show more content…
Together they discuss and recall their adventures and crazy childhood. It starts off with Rusty playing pool at Benny's when he hears that Biff Wilcox, a tuff gangster wants to kill him because he swore at Biff's girlfriend. Rusty acts real cool about it and pretends not to care. He goes to Patty's house, his girlfriend, and she pleads him not to fight anymore and he's just like this is the last one, but she doesn't believe him anyway. After that he goes to the parking lot where the fight is taking place. He sees his friends there and he also sees Biff's friends there. He counts the people and makes sure no one brought any weapons just like his brother, the motorcycle boy taught him to do just before a fight. They start cussing each other out and then the fight starts, while everyone else watches. Biff pulls out a blade and this makes the fight unfair. But still Rusty manages to take him down and knocks the crap out of him. While Biff is on the floor Motorcycle Boy walks in the middle of the fight and gets pissed of at his little brother. While Rusty is distracted Biff gets up and cuts Rusty on his side above his hips. Motorcycle boy gets angry by seeing this so he breaks Biff's wrist and leaves him lying there. All of Biff's friends abandon him when Motorcycle Boy arrives, as he is sort of the legend of the town because he used to be the leader of the former gang of the neighbourhood called
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