Blog Post #2 - PTI
Question: What does Arnold hide and ultimately reveal in “Dance Dance
Dance?” What does he learn? Be sure to discuss the final sentence on page 129.
In ‘Dance Dance Dance,’
Arnold ends up revealing his poverty to Penelope. At school, Arnold “pretended
to be middle class” because he thought it would not do himself any good if his
classmates knew he was “dirt poor” (119). But, later in the book, Arnold
realized that “If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be
pretty damn amazing” (129). Now that
Penelope and Roger know that he’s poor, Arnold can now feel more transparent to
Penelope, and can now score an occasional ride home from Roger. Overall, Arnold
learned that keeping such major aspects of your life from your friends does not
always go well in the long haul. Although this moment almost built a friendship between Arnold and Roger,
as well as substantially strengthen Arnold’s friendship with Penelope, Arnold learned
that it’s not always bad to talk about these things. In most cases, people will
(likely) be sympathetic of you, and ultimately less cruel and by realizing
this, life will only get better for Arnold.
I agree with you, I definitely think life is looking up for Arnold and I think it's good that for once things are going his way. I am also interested in there the whole Penelope, Roger, Arnold relationship will work out.
ReplyDeleteI feel that Junior will become friends with Rodger, but there will always be some kind of barrier between them. "He opened his wallet and handed me forty bucks"(126 Alexie). Rodger will always be the leader of the relationship, but he is still friends. Rodger will be the popular one while Junior will be the tag along.
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