Tex | Social Concerns
Tex is unusual in the writings of Hinton in that it leaves the area of urban peer-group gangs and situates itself in the rural part of America. Tex is more concerned with school, with motorcycles, and with his horse, Negrito, than with gang life. The notion of social class does come up obliquely through run-ins with Cole Collins, the father of a girl Tex likes, who does not think that Tex and his brother fit the model he envisions for those who should associate with his daughter. Lem, an older character, is a drug dealer so that he may maintain a middle-class lifestyle rather than a...
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