The Commitments and Rumble Fish

People say that history is written by rich people but if we think about stories. Most of them take some lives experiences from people that all of us know and we feel represented in a book or script. This is the case of the two stories Rumble Fish and the Commitments, where you can feel your life or your neighbor’s being told as a part of the story.

Social class is a characteristic that was printed in the story. On one hand, we can see the commitments as a group of music that wants to represent all the working class people. If you have seen the movie you could tell in which part of the city most of the lived and the kind of places they visit and made part of them, when they started their musical group. All of this, you could see it through the book or the movie. On the contrary, in Rumble Fish you could see the social class represented by the places or parts of the city where you can include the gangs’ fights and the kind of living Rusty James and his brother had.

Also, social class is a characteristic that could be inferred from the story. On one hand, reading the book (The Commitments) you can feel in the air the issues that tell you about a group of people fighting and working hard to get a worthy life. On the other hand, in the other story (Rumble Fish), you didn’t have the same kind of information but using your imagination you could imagine in what kind of school Rusty James studied, in which part of the town was his house placed and what kind of hobbies Rusty and his friends had.

In conclusion, we can see that every story has something to tell and we can be represented or not for this but most of the time we are. Stories can be a resource to help us to see from outside our living and see ways we can change it, if we want to.