Rumble Fish | Rumble Fish

In the following excerpt, the author explores the structure and themes Hinton employs to develop the characters and their relationships to each other in Rumble Fish.

Structure and Technique
As she did in The Outsiders, Hinton employs a frame to the story, the main body of which is a series of events that occurred five years earlier. The story is framed by the first and last chapters, which describe the surprise meeting of Rusty-James, the book's narrator, and Steve Hays, who had been his best friend during the time the story describes. The story is, in effect, a piece of Rusty-James's memory, and memory, the ability to remember things (or, conversely, to forget them) is a...

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