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.
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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