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Rusty gets angry with Steve for bringing up Motorcycle Boy (Rusty's older brother, a former leader of the gang) and makes plans to fight Biff.

He tells his friends what he said, and when the gang agrees that Rusty is telling the truth, the notion of fighting about it seems silly. Rusty seems to think that Biff wants to kill him for the comments he made about a girl named Anita. At the age of 14, Rusty is hanging out at Benny's, playing pool with his friends when he learns that Biff Wilcox wants to kill him.

When Steve mentions that Rusty looks just like someone from their past, Rusty thinks he could have been happy to see Steve again if he had not made him remember everything. He tells Rusty he was there when it happened. When Steve looks at the scar on Rusty's side, Rusty tells him that he got it in a knife fight. Steve is in college and Rusty is not long out of the reformatory. It has been five years since they last saw each other. Rusty-James runs into his old friend, Steve Hays, at the beach. It was adapted to film and directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983. "Hinton knows how to plunge us right into dead-end mentality-his inability to verbalize much of anything, to come to grips with his anger about his alcoholic father and the mother who deserted him, even his distance from his own feelings.Rumble Fish is a 1975 novel for young adults by S. The brothers are inseparable, and Motorcycle Boy will always be there to watch his back, so there's nothing to worry about, right? Or so Rusty-James believes, until his world falls apart and Motorcycle Boy isn't there to pick up the pieces.Īn edgy, emotional portrait of a troubled kid trying to navigate the chaotic world around him, Rumble Fish was made into a film by Francis Ford Coppola and has become a modern classic praised by School Library Journal as "stylistically superb" and beloved by multiple generations of readers. But Motorcycle Boy is also smart, so smart that Rusty-James relies on him to bail him out of trouble. Rusty-James wants to be just like his big brother Motorcycle Boy-tough enough to be respected by everyone in the neighborhood. From the author of The Outsiders: This novel about two brothers in a tough world "packs a punch that will leave readers of any age reeling" ( School Library Journal).Ī School Library Journal Best Book of the Year