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The Absolutely True Diary Of Part Time Indian Analysis

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Sometimes your best friend can become your greatest enemy. Especially when they ditch you for a white school and new white friends and become an APPLE! This was the case for Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian when his best and only friend (Junior) moves to a white school. ”Both of us (Rowdy and Junior) were pushed into the world on November 5 1992 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane”.

Rowdy's friendship is based on protection and understanding. It is the one constant in Junior's life. Rowdy and Junior know each other better than anyone else knows them. They have grown up together and they come from the same world. Unlike Junior's friends at Reardan, Rowdy also understands what it's like to grow up on the reservation. He understands Junior's losses and his triumphs because he shares them. Junior knows that Rowdy loves him even when he is bullying him, he understands that Rowdy's abusive home life has left him unable to express himself and that he often resorts to violence in emotional moments. So when he leaves for Rearden, it’s understandable why he is so mad and it's even the first real emotion he shows. …show more content…

Rowdy showed for the first time that he was truly sad but chose to show it through anger and violence. It shows that Rowdy really is just a sensitive kid and how he doesn't want his only friend to move schools. It was also the first time he had hit Junior in the fourteen years that they had know each other. This is the moment that set Rowdy and Junior on the course towards equal footing between the both of

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Junior again shows his power when he is being interviewed before his game against Wellpinit and talks about how he wants to win against Rowdy. Junior says, “And now I want to destroy him. I want to score thirty points on him” (185). Alexie uses this hyperbole to express Junior’s desire

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Throughout the novel the reader can see that Junior and Rowdy’s friendship slowly grows apart, which is what causes tensions between the two during the game. When the coach tells Junior he is guarding Rowdy that night, he says, “ I don’t think I can do this,”(188) which shows Junior’s lack of self-confidence. He starts the game and as Rowdy steals the ball, Junior chases after him. Junior says to the reader his calculations of what he needs to do in order to stop Rowdy. “I couldn’t foul him.

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In addition, Junior's best friend began a douche after he switched schools also. No matter what Junior still tried to be there and get advice, and email Rowdy. No matter how rude Rowdy was, Junior was just happy to get a reply. Throughout Junior's experience, he always tries to find happiness and never gives up on what he loves most. Junior's parents may be drunks, but that doesn't change how much he loves them.

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After Junior makes the decision to Reardan, and telling Rowdy, he says that “[he] knew that [his] best friend had become [his] worst enemy”. Rowdy saw Junior doing this as a way of Junior saying that he “ always thought [he] was better that [Rowdy]”. This event was also the thing that ended their friendship. But just as it ended, their friendship returned, with both of them coming to a realization. Rowdy tells Junior that he “ always knew [Junior] was going to leave [them] behind and travel the world.”

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