Part Time Indian Friendship

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The exceptional novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie, possess a great amount of themes. Yet the one that stands out the most is the theme of friendship. This essay will explore the various relationships that junior has with his friends Rowdy, Roger, Penelope, and Gordy. The audience and Junior learn that friendship can be found in the most unusually places or even when its least excepted.
Junior and Rowdy share a very special relationship it is undeniable that these two are inseparable. They’re practically twins because they share the same birthday which is November 5, 1992 and claim that they spending every waking hour together “Rowdy and I have spend 40,880 hours in each other’s company” (Alexie …show more content…

Before Junior and Roger became the buddies they are later in the novel, they had their differences. At the beginning Roger was a very rude person who would say racist things to junior. However if you fast-forward toward the middle of the book we find that things have totally changed. Roger now respects Junior and even helps him out in a drastic way that Junior would have never thought anyone would help him. Roger lends Junior forty bucks after Junior supposedly left his wallet at home. “Man, don’t sweat it. You should have said something earlier. I got you covered” (Alexie 126). This is a significant grand gesture of kindness. Junior and Penelope have an exclusive relationship. These two share a lot of their hopes and dream together and darkest secrets. Penelope told him what she wanted to do with her life “I want to go to Stanford and study architecture” (Alexie 112). Junior was the first person to find out that Penelope was bulimic. In like manner with Penelope finding out that junior was poor. Although Junior had superb relationship with Roger and Penelope, he had also shared a valuable one with his basketball team. “I wasn’t expected to be good so I wasn’t, But in Reardan, my coach and other players wanted me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to expectations” (Alexie 180). His basketball

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