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kksummers05
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How does Rumble Fish begin?

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Posted by kksummers05 on Friday February 2, 2007 at 3:18 PM and tagged with rumble fish.

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  1. brandih

    eNotes Editor

    The novel opens five or six years after the main action, as Rusty-James runs into his old friend Steve, whom he hasn't seen in all that time. They are on the beach, far from the original action. Rusty-James has been "bumming around," not working since getting out of the reformatory after serving five years, and Steve is on vacation from college, where he's studying to become a high school teacher. Steve invites Rusty-James to dinner, an invitation he has no intention of accepting. Steve is too much of a reminder of some bad times.

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    Posted by brandih on Friday February 2, 2007 at 3:21 PM


  2. brendawm Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    The novel begins years after the main action has occurred with two friends meeting on the beach reminded of old times.  The remainder of the book is told as a flashback.

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    Posted by brendawm on Sunday September 2, 2007 at 9:09 AM

  3. revolution
    revolution Teacher
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    The introduction of the novel "Rumble Fish" opens years later after the main action of the story, which talks about Rusty-James meeting his old friend Steve in the beach, which plays no important part in the story plot, so it has no link to the entire story. The rest of the story is just "flash-back" retelling by the narrator the whole story when he is older and he is just recalling the whole action, the ones that he can remembered, from past recollections.

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    Posted by revolution on Monday August 31, 2009 at 11:40 PM