I guess the only downside about this little novel is that you don’t get to spend much time with the characters, and I definitely would have liked to learn more about them. I also liked Motorcycle Boy and Steve a lot.

I liked Rusty-James because he is a complex character and not just a two-dimensional knob head or anything like that. He gets into plenty of fights and has trouble at school, and even though he has his best friend Steve, a girlfriend, a brother and a father, he feels as though he doesn’t have anyone to count on. Because of this Rusty-James lacks direction/motivation for anything else and longs for the Gang life, which he thinks is so much cooler than it actually was. He’s a tough nut who just wants to be like his brother Motorcycle Boy, the most respected ex-gang member and the coolest guy of the town. You have to really look hard at the sentences and into the mind of Rusty-James’ character to make meaning from this little novel, especially when the events of the novel all seem to fly by. Hinton’s writing style is so simple and elegant that it can be a little hard, at first, to realise the complexity of everything she’s writing about. In actual fact, once I sat back after reading it (I read it on a long trip on the train so had plenty of time to process it afterwards) I realised that there was a lot happening and that the novel brings up a lot of important issues regarding family, class, masculinity, violence and adolescence. What I mean by this is that not a lot happens in the novel, or at least, because it’s so short, it seems like not a lot happens. It’s one of those stories that are kind of about nothing, but also about everything. But I liked Rumble Fish a lot, and in this review I will attempt to explain why. It covers similar themes of masculinity (and more) as in S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, which beats out Rumble Fish for me simply because it’s a longer story and you get to spend more time with the characters. It’s powerful and subtle and immensely enjoyable. Urn:oclc:76090730 Republisher_date 20150429021055 Republisher_operator Scandate 20150409083722 Scanner Fish is the perfect novella to read in one sitting. OL2718325W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.71 Pages 138 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0844672831 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:52:31 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1130606 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Janesville, WI Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition.

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