Rumble Fish

Rumble Fish was a book by S.E. Hinton that i read in English class. It is about a young teenage kid named Rusty James in the time just after the gang wars. He goes through many troubles and learns to cope with them. In the beggining he meets up with an old friend and has a flash back on his life. All of his troubles start when his brother gets back into town. Rusty gets into a big fight and almost dies but his brother saves him. He goes through many other things including getting expelled and hsi girl friend dumping him for messing around with other girls. At the end of the book His brother gets gunned down for breaking into a store. Then Rusty goes back to present time and his friend asks to go get something to eat but he zones out and the next thing he knows he is walking away waving.