Do you think that Rowdy change his mind or do you think that he was serious about just being bored and do you think Jr. is happy with the way life is?
Monday, November 23, 2015
Interpret/explain/explore the context and significance of the last line of the book (230).
In the last page of the book I think something beautiful has happened. Rowdy and Jr. Make up and do the one thing that they both love and that is playing basketball. The last paragraph talks about how they play together and don't talk and play and lose time. They didn't keep track of the score which means that Rowdy and Arnold got over their rivalry and could just play together and have fun. Jr. Said that they "Played for hours". I think this is significant because both Jr. and Rowdy agree that they can be friends and play one on one and not argue which is a major turning point in the book because Rowdy and Jr. are friends again. I think this is the climax of the book because Jr. and Rowdy made up and I feel that it is the climax because this is what the story has been leading to. when Jr. Says "we didn't keep score" in the last line of the book it is really significant because both Arnold and Rowdy are friends enough to not even be competitive against each other. Being competitive is a huge part of both of their IDENTITIES. So they must really be friends if they didn't keep track.
Do you think that Rowdy change his mind or do you think that he was serious about just being bored and do you think Jr. is happy with the way life is?
Do you think that Rowdy change his mind or do you think that he was serious about just being bored and do you think Jr. is happy with the way life is?
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I think that Rowdy did change his mind and decided that he wanted to become friends with Junior again. He said that he was bored when he came over to Junior’s house but he said this because he wanted to put on the act of being tough. If Rowdy really didn’t want anything to do with Junior he wouldn’t have gone over to his house. He would’ve asked someone else to play basketball. When they were playing basketball they had some real conversations about their lives ahead of them. Rowdy started saying that he always knew Junior was going to leave the reservation and travel the world and Rowdy wasn’t mad about it anymore. This shows Rowdy played basketball with Junior to let out emotions and recreate their friendship.
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