Biff seizes the opportunity to grab the knife and stabs Rusty in the side. Rusty is momentarily distracted and vulnerable to being attacked. The Motorcycle Boy arrives and announces his return. Rusty is able to knock the knife away from Biff and beats him until it appears the fight is over. Rusty's fears are confirmed when Biff pulls a knife.

Biff's erratic behavior leads Rusty to believe that he is on drugs, which causes him to worry that the fight will not be a fair one. Biff, too, brings some friends for backup. Later, Rusty arrives to fight Biff and is accompanied by his friends Steve, Smokey Bennet, and B. They make out and James falls asleep while there, nearly missing the fight. At the fight day, Rusty is spending some time with his girlfriend, Patty. Rusty gets angry with Steve for bringing up Motorcycle Boy (Rusty's older brother, a former leader of the gang) and makes plans to fight Biff. He tells his friends what he said, and when the gang agrees that Rusty is telling the truth, the notion of fighting about it seems silly.

Rusty seems to think that Biff wants to kill him for the comments he made about a girl named Anita. At the age of 14, Rusty is hanging out at Benny's, playing pool with his friends when he learns that Biff Wilcox wants to kill him. When Steve mentions that Rusty looks just like someone from their past, Rusty thinks he could have been happy to see Steve again if he had not made him remember everything. He tells Rusty he was there when it happened. When Steve looks at the scar on Rusty's side, Rusty tells him that he got it in a knife fight. Steve is in college and Rusty is not long out of the reformatory.

It has been five years since they last saw each other. Rusty-James runs into his old friend, Steve Hays, at the beach. It was adapted to film and directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983. Urn:oclc:76090730 Scandate 20100728203620 Scanner scribe5.la.archive.Rumble Fish is a 1975 novel for young adults by S. OL2718325W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.71 Pages 140 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0844672831 Urn:lcp:rumblefis00hint:epub:ac29a933-6152-493a-8065-85a4d4c93eb2 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier rumblefis00hint Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t19k52z7c Isbn 0440059194 Lccn 75008004 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:05:31 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA120107 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 6.

Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton