Saturday, November 21, 2015
PTI #7, Question 4, Explain the humor/irony of the title of the chapter, “Rowdy and I Have a Long and Serious Discussion About Basketball.”
The title is humorous/ironic because they don't have a long discussion. Instead of being open about themselves as the title indicates they just exchange emails. Junior emailed Rowdy a sorry for beating you email. Then Rowdy responds with "We'll kick your ** next year". This is not long because it is a short e-exchange. It is not a very serious exchange because it is just trash talk. Although it is not very serious it is still important. It is important because even though Rowdy was inappropriate he was friendly. That implies that he and Junior might be friends again.
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During Rowdy and Juniors "long and serious conversation" "Now that might just sound like a series of homophobic insults. but I think it was also a little bit friendly, and it was the first time Rowdy had talked to me since I left the rez." (Alexei, 198) Rowdy calls Junior multiple names that would usually be taken as an insult. Arnold didn't quite think of them this way. He took what he got and used what he knew about Rowdy's personality to realize that his name calling and trash talk is his way of being (somewhat) nice to Junior.
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