The novel Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, By Sherman Alexie it show how Indians or African Americans struggle with who they are and who they want to be. Arnold learns how to live through and with his struggles because of how his friends accepted and helped him. In this book Alexie shows how all of Arnold’s friends helped him through different aspects in life. If he didn’t have those friends than his life would have been so much harder. When Arnold was going to school at Wellpinit Roger was the one that Arnold counted on to help him the most for protection and motivation; showing the importance of friendship. For instance when Arnold’s dog dies Rowdy was the one who distracted Arnold by him do something to get his mind off of it. Alexie writes “ After Oscar died, I was so depressed that I thought about crawling into a hole and disappearing forever. But Rowdy talked me out of it. ”(15) Also when Arnold gets beat up by the Andruss …show more content…
That was the most racist thing I’d ever heard in my life. Roger and his friends laughed like crazy. I hated them. And I knew I had to do something big. I couldn’t let them get away with that. I wasn’t just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo. So I punched Roger in the face.(64,65) After that roger had respect for Arnold because he stood up to the “top dog”. Then after the dance one night Roger talked to Arnold about joining basketball. “Hey” Roger said “Are you going to try out for basketball?” I knew that practice started in a week. I’d planned on playing, but I didn’t know if the couch liked Indians or not. “Yeah” I said. “Are you any good? Roger asked. “I’m okay” Arnold said. “You think you’re good enough to play varsity?” Roger asked. “No way” I said “I’m junior all the way.” “All right” Roger said “It would be good to have you out there. We need some new