The book Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton begins and ends in the same place and at the same time. The book opens with Rusty running into an old friend, Steve Hays, five or six years after the main events of the book take place. The physical location is a beach. The two men get to talking, but inevitably their past lives come up. Chapter Two is a flashback and tells Rusty's story, starting five or six years before the present. Rusty's flashback story ends in Chapter 11. In Chapter 12, readers are placed back into the present, with the men talking on the beach. Steve explains why he left, and then he invites Rusty to dinner. Rusty politely refuses, because he does not want to be around Steve. Steve is a reminder of the awful past.
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