I-Man is Bone's mentor and becomes his closest friend. Bone, although a hardened drug dealer on the outside, is revealed to be quite compassionate, wanting to free an abused girl named Froggy from her captor and to return his mentor I-Man back to his home. He runs away from home to live with his best friend and a biker gang. He is a 14-year-old drug dealer living in upstate New York with his mother and his abusive stepfather. Chappie, Bone) is the protagonist of the book. The book contains frank descriptions of drug use such as marijuana and methamphetamine and sexual abuse by the narrator's stepfather, which, coupled with the young age of the narrator, has contributed to the book's controversy. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Some critics, such as Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times, describe the book as descending from other novels about rebellious teens, such as J. The novel is split into two halves: the first concerns his family struggles in America, and the second describes his experiences in Jamaica. It is a Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story about the 14-year-old American narrator, Chappie, later dubbed Bone (named for a tattoo that he gets), who, after having dropped out of school, turns to the guidance of a Rastafarian Jamaican migrant worker.
Rule of the Bone is a 1995 novel by Russell Banks.
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