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Who is Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em>? How does Rowdy help Junior learn about his life and identity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> is Junior’s best friend. Though they have their differences, the two come together and are able to rekindle their friendship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out more about Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Rowdy<\/strong> in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> is Junior\u2019s best (human) friend. (Junior\u2019s best<\/em> friend is his dog, Oscar.) Junior considers Rowdy to be the \u201cmost important person in [his] life,\u201d even more important than the members of his own family. Rowdy and Junior were born on the same day in the same hospital, and they\u2019ve been friends ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> is the toughest kid on the reservation. He\u2019ll fight anyone\u2014girl or boy, child or adult, human or dog. He even throws punches at the rain. He got into his first fist fight when he was in kindergarten: A first-grader had thrown a piece of ice during a snowball fight, which made Rowdy mad. He punched the first-grader and two of the first-grader\u2019s friends, and then he punched the teacher who tried to stop the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowdy\u2019s father is a mean drunk who beats him and Rowdy\u2019s mother, so they both always have bruised and bloody faces. Rowdy spends most of his time at Junior\u2019s house because it\u2019s a \u201csafe place.\u201d Rowdy loves comic books, and not the \u201ccool\u201d ones. He likes things like Casper the Friendly Ghost<\/em>, comics meant for younger kids. These are perfect for Rowdy because he has a juvenile sense of humor and he struggles to read on grade level. When Rowdy reads, his tough-guy persona disappears and he becomes childlike, laughing at all the dumb jokes. As does Junior, Rowdy pretends he lives inside these fictional worlds\u2014they\u2019re far better places to live than his real life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Powwow<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After Oscar\u2019s death, Junior wants to disappear into a hole and stay there forever. But Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian<\/em> tells him that no one will notice that he\u2019s gone, so he might as well stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year over Labor Day weekend, the Spokane Tribe has a powwow. It includes singing and dancing<\/a>, food, alcohol, gambling, and lots of drunken fighting. Junior doesn\u2019t want to go because the weakest Indians always end up getting beat up, and he knows he\u2019ll be an easy target, but Rowdy says he\u2019ll protect Junior and convinces Junior to go with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once there, Rowdy wants to find some bootleg whisky. On the way, Rowdy trips on a tent pole and smashes into a minivan, injuring his face and shoulder. Junior doesn\u2019t handle the situation well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mistake #1:<\/strong> Junior laughs. This makes Rowdy mad, and he pushes Junior to the ground. But Rowdy realizes he can\u2019t actually hurt Junior because Junior is his only friend. So instead, he lets Junior go, grabs a shovel, and starts destroying the van, denting doors, knocking off the rearview mirrors, and smashing the windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mistake #2:<\/strong> Scared of both Rowdy and the thought of getting caught at the scene of the crime, Junior flees. But he runs right into the Andruss brothers, 30-year-old triplets who have a history of bullying 14-year-old Junior. They form a circle around Junior and push him toward one another, calling him names like \u201cHydro Head\u201d and \u201cHydromatic,\u201d uninspired puns based on Junior\u2019s brain disorder, hydrocephalus. Then one of them knees Junior in the testicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Andruss brothers walk away laughing, and Rowdy finds Junior lying in a ball on the ground. After checking to make sure Junior\u2019s head is ok, Rowdy concocts a plan for revenge. He and Junior wait outside the Andruss brothers\u2019 tent until the drunk brothers return at 3 a.m. Rowdy sneaks in and shaves off their eyebrows and cuts off their braids. Cutting off an Indian\u2019s braids is one of the worst things you can do to him because those braids have taken him years to grow. Junior loves Rowdy for doing it, even while feeling guilty about loving him for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior and Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time<\/strong> Indian<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After the school year ends, Junior\u2019s at home watching TV when there\u2019s a knock on the door and  Rowdy enters. Junior, surprised to see him, says, \u201cI thought you hated me.\u201d Rowdy acknowledges that he does, but that he\u2019s also bored. He asks if Junior wants to shoot some hoops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After shooting in comfortable silence for a little while, Junior tells Rowdy he should go to Reardan with him in the fall. Rowdy responds by saying he was reading a book about how \u201cold-time\u201d Indians used to be nomadic. Rowdy thinks that Junior is the only true nomad on the reservation<\/strong>, and that\u2019s pretty cool. This makes Junior cry. Rowdy, dry-eyed, is unperturbed. He just tells Junior to make sure to send him postcards as he travels the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior knows that what Rowdy says is true: he\u2019s a nomad. Junior hopes that, someday, his tribe will forgive him for leaving, and that, someday, he\u2019ll forgive himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior and Rowdy<\/a> in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian<\/em> play a game of one-on-one. They play for hours, until the moon is high in the sky, and they don\u2019t keep score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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