Our current actions, our worldviews, our sense of identity are all grounded in our experiences from the past registered in memory, inscribed within our corporeality. On the one hand, we can say that both past and future impinge upon our present. We build our lives upon the foundation of the past and in the sway of our hopes for the future. But insofar as human beings are characterized by the capacity for reflection, and insofar as reflection requires a lived experience of temporality, we find ourselves involved in time as an integral part of our humanity.
They engage in the lifecycle, seem to be aware of their own mortality (or at the very least, aware that their lives can be threatened), and seek to preserve themselves in the face of adversity. They experience youth, maturation, and senescence. Other animals, of course, live through time and experience its vicissitudes.
“Hinton knows how to plunge us right into dead-end mentality-his inability to verbalize much of anything, to come to grips with his anger about his alcoholic father and the mother who deserted him, even his distance from his own feelings.Our relationship to temporality is deeply ingrained in what it means to be human. The brothers are inseparable, and Motorcycle Boy will always be there to watch his back, so there's nothing to worry about, right? Or so Rusty-James believes, until his world falls apart and Motorcycle Boy isn't there to pick up the pieces.Īn edgy, emotional portrait of a troubled kid trying to navigate the chaotic world around him, Rumble Fish was made into a film by Francis Ford Coppola and has become a modern classic praised by School Library Journal as “stylistically superb” and beloved by multiple generations of readers. But Motorcycle Boy is also smart, so smart that Rusty-James relies on him to bail him out of trouble. Rusty-James wants to be just like his big brother Motorcycle Boy-tough enough to be respected by everyone in the neighborhood. From the author of The Outsiders: This novel about two brothers in a tough world “packs a punch that will leave readers of any age reeling” ( School Library Journal).Ī School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
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