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House Of The Red Fish Loyalty Quotes

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The word “loyalty” is used to define someone or something with a deep determination for another thing or person. In the “House of The Red Fish”, there are multiple occasions where either Tomi or his friends display the trait of being loyalty. One example is where Rico jumped into the canal with a shot up butt, another example is when Rico, once again, stayed behind to watch the pontoons and got beat up, but the pontoons were still there. Lastly, when Tomi was determined to not shame his families name when Keet was trying to start a fight. One significant display of loyalty in “House of The Red Fish” is when Rico got shot in the butt after curfew, and the day after he and the rest of his friends and Tomi went down to the canal to see what they could do to lift the Taiyo Maru. After a few minutes, Keet and his friends came down and tried to start a fight, but one by one each of Tomi’s friends jumped in the water. Even Rico, who jumped in the dirty Ala Wai Canal water with a bullet wound in his butt. This shows that even though he was injured, he still was loyal to Tomi’s wishes of bringing up his father’s boat. …show more content…

After Billy had borrowed the two 500 pound pontoons, Rico offered to stay behind as a watchdog to ensure Keet and his friends wouldn’t try and take them. The next morning however, when Tomi and his friends came back to the canal Rico was distant and had a black eye and scratches from Dwight, Keet’s “thug”. The fact that Rico hadn’t left the spot and stayed to protect the pontoons is admirable and loyal because most people would run away, leaving the pontoons for

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