Book Title: Rumble Fish Author: S.E.Hinton Number of Pages: 135 Genre: Fiction Setting Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Time Period: Mid-1960s Characters 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 …
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…first person and its limited. Theme The main theme of this story is to be prepared for the future and have a proper realistic goal in life that will make you successful. The reason for Rusty's failure is that he didn't plan for the future and he depended too much on one person, his older brother, as his idol and role model. If he were more original and sensible, he would have made it through.