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Later that night, Motorcycle Boy breaks into the pet store and starts setting the animals free. Rusty tries to stop him, but it is no use. Motorcycle Boy grabs the rumble fish and heads for the river as police arrive. An officer fires a warning shot that hits him. He dies near the river with the rumble fish flopping on the ground, dying beside him.
Rumble Fish is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the 1975 novel Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton , who also co-wrote the screenplay with Coppola. The film stars Matt Dillon , Mickey Rourke , Vincent Spano , Diane Lane , Diana Scarwid , Nicolas Cage , Chris Penn , and Dennis Hopper .
The book, like Rumble Fish, takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton's hometown and the setting of her first book, The Outsiders.However, unlike Rumble Fish, Ponyboy Curtis, the main character in The Outsiders, appears in That Was Then, This Is Now and even takes part in the events surrounding the dance.
Overall, Hinton has written nine published books. Hinton has won many awards for her books. Hinton has won the "ALA Best Books for Young Adults Award" four times; she won the award for That Was Then, [4] This Is Now (in 1971), Rumble Fish (in 1975) [5] and for Tex and Taming the Star Runner (in 1979).
Tex is a novel by S. E. Hinton, published in 1979.The book (like Rumble Fish and That Was Then, This Is Now) takes place in the same universe as Hinton's first book The Outsiders, but in a rural town called Garyville, Oklahoma, a fictional suburb of Tulsa.
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The five YA novels, her first books published, are Hinton's works most widely held in WorldCat libraries. [18] All are set in Oklahoma, and take place within a shared universe. The Outsiders (1967) That Was Then, This Is Now (1971) Rumble Fish (1975) Tex (1979) Taming the Star Runner (1988)
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