Summary Of The Novel 'Rumble Fish' By S. E. Hinton

In the novel “rumble fish” the writer S.E.Hinton illustrates sometimes we want to forget what happened in the past by crossing out that memory. The story begins when James sees Steve for the first time in five years. At first James could not remember who Steve was because he has a memory loss, but when Steve tells him he starts to remember. Steve stares at James’s scar that runs down on his side, James says, “I got that in a knife fight, a long time ago” (Hinton 3). When James says that he starts to remember how he gets into that fight, noticing how Steve tries to not look for the other scars that is there when he knows where to look. Furthermore, Steve brings up the death of the motorcycle boy and how James looks exactly like him he says,