Rule of the Bone a novel by Russel Banks (70-130) and (130-190)

(130-190)
Summary:
Again Cappie or Bone founds that he has no place to go. He starts to deal with rock bands as was advised by Buster- new person he found to stay with. The name of chapter eight is The Soul of Assasains which is by the way is the name of the rock band that Bone and Buster went to deal with. However accident happens and Bone takes away Buster's money he got from rock band and runs away. He mets a person called I-man who becomes his best friend step after step. I-man is now an adult who brings Bone back to life from all the difficulties, durt and dust he had in his life and shows him more common way of living, where school and cooking can replace the joy coming from drugs and as an adult Bone undertands it. And by the way the greatest thing or idea i found is that in previous chapters narrator was called Chappie which is food for dogs but for very cheezy small weak domestic dogs, and now his name is Bone- food for real dogs! Great great great

Quote:
"When I reached the bottom of the hill by the Stewart's in Keene I had to ask myself for the first time in a while which way to go, west or east" (Banks 134).
Reaction:
By the way Chappie always had to ask himself where to go. However east and west is just a nice polite representation. He had to decide where to leave home or not, to sell drugs or not, to still or not and so on. That what it makes a good coming of age book because it shows how teenager starts to do his own choices at very young age, how those choices change his life and how he starts to realize which choice is right. Also this quote shows that he became a little bit more down to Earth as an adult. I was feeling a little bit sorry for him, but i could end up like him or anyone could if they make such an amount of wrong choices. As we had it for the SAT prep essay the question was Do your memories help you to succeed in the future. Memories of Chappie's mistakes started helping him a little and hope will help him to get out of that ocean of troubles.
(70-130)
Summary:
So far the name of the narrator is Chappie. He ran away from home and now he is in the dirty world of drug users. On pages 70-80 main conflict is around Chappie stealing a VCR from a company of people called bikers that i forgot to introduce in the first summary. Bikers are not people who have hurley daviidson's and wear leather jackes calling themselves angels of the sky or angels of hell. In this text bikers are people who do nothing but smoke weed eat pizza and drink all day and dont care what is happening outside of that world. I can see why it is a coming of age story. First step was his running away from home. He decided to do so and by the way what makes him more adult is that he did not go back and started appologizing yet as most kids do at the age of 14 or 15. Most of the people especially who had troubles with weed some day decide to run away from home. Chappie is like a classic example of teenager in that type of the situation. He is in circumstances where he have a strict step-father, mother that does not even care about him that much, and bad people to hang out with. He is the classical example of a bad kid however the thing that makes this story interesting is how will he get out of that situation or will he just leave everything as it is? Way, So far Banks makes reader feel sorry about Chappie, however at the same exact moment he makes reader angry about Chappie for taking easiest wrong choice. He and Bruce set bikers house on fire just because they wanted to steal VCR. From the Chappie's point of view we can see how all three realized that they are all criminals and Chappie asks himself who would be sad and who would care about him if he dies. I think it is also can be called a breakpoint because it is the thought of and adult! Kid will just say oh, okay, ill die, whatever... Russ left his car at the place of fire and there is weed in that car too and Russ wants to go back and take it. Chappie says that he is too material and he says : "I said, No way, man." This is second place where Chappie behaves himself as an adult by saying forget about money too alder guy and let's go, act smarter, and may be we will save our buds from troubles, and by the way older person- Russ listens to him.
Quote:
"Yeah, well, that's the difference between us, Chapstick. Which is what worries me about you. You can't spend your life dealing weed to Adironack Iron, man. You've got to start thinking about the future. Biker gangs, they come and go, man" (Banks 70).
Reaction:
Russ talks like an adult, like a father that met his bad son and just gives him a best advice, however afterwards Chappie takes this place and they chage roles!