Bud Not Buddy Analysis

Detailed Description of Setting: This story takes place in Flint and Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the middle of the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a really bad worldwide economic recession throughout the 1930’s, which caused high unemployment for adults and homelessness for many children. Bud “not Buddy” Caldwell is the main character and is a ten-year-old African-American boy who lives in Flint, Michigan. Bud has been staying in orphanages and several foster homes since his mother died four years earlier when he was six. Bud never knew his father. The few items Bud has left to remember his mother are a bag of rocks, a photograph of his mother as a child and fliers that show Herman E. Calloway and his jazz band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression. He keeps them in an old suitcase. Bud thinks that Herman Callaway is his father and goes “on the lam” to try to find him. He meets many people and gets into many adventures along the way. Eventually, his journey leads him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the jazz clubs where Herman and his band play.

Did you know that almost all African Americans were homeless during the Great Depression? Well, they were, and so was Bud Caldwell! Bud Caldwell is a ten-year-old African American boy. He is the main character in the book, Bud, Not Buddy, written by Christopher Paul Curtis. After Bud's mother died when he was six, Bud went to an orphanage. Then, Bud went to a foster family, but the Amoses were very mean to him. So, Bud ran away. Bud started trying to find his father in the hopes that he may not be an orphan anymore, and so that he wouldn't be treated so awful. Bud, Not Buddy would be a different book if it were written in a white person's perspective because white people got things that African Americans didn't, white people thought that they were better than African Americans, Bud would have been treated better, and he would not have been surprised when he found out that the Amoses had hot water running into their house.

In the late 1930 unemployment rates were dropping at exponential rates, people were traveling west looking for jobs, hoping to gain even the smallest amounts of money. They were struggling to survive, fighting for jobs and living in horrible conditions. The Dust Bowl had wiped out most of their homes and many were desperate, people referred to them as migrant workers. The story Of Mice and Men revolves around the adventure of two migrant workers, George and Lennie. The book begins with a scene of nature, calm and beautiful yet cruel and complex. Much like nature, John Steinbeck's book tells the dark side of our nation and it’s people. Because of this, Steinbeck's book is still valuable to teach students. His simple yet complex story characterizes

The story of Bud, Not Buddy "When one door closes, another door opens," Bud's momma said. This is a quote from the novel, Bud, Not Buddy. In this a young boy, Bud, struggles to survive living in the Great Depression. He struggles with abuse, loneliness, hunger, and also being on the lam. Bud, Not Buddy would have been different if Bud's father had stayed because Bud wouldn’t have gone to find Herman, he wouldn’t have gone to Hooverville, and he wouldn’t have needed the Home.

Today, it is more evident than ever that there are deep divisions within modern society along the lines of race, class and gender. These divides are highlighted by recent protests, riots and movements. These issues are relevant in modern society as well as in two famous stories. Both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men use character development to make commentary toward these points. Fitzgerald’s novel covers the tumultuous journey of Nick Carraway through the swanky social elite of the 1920’s. Steinbeck’s text covers the opposite end of the spectrum, detailing the experiences of George and Lennie, ranchers during the great depression. While also providing a riveting and captivating plot, these seemingly antithetical tales both develop their respective characters to be normal, everyday people who face difficult problems because of their class.

Some characters in this novel are alienated by mainstream society because they do not fit society’s ideal image of a person. And they are all not accepted as human beings. Throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, the social injustice of how people were treated during the Great Depression is explored through the characters Crooks, Curley’s wife, and Lennie, to show that society actually needs to become stronger than it really is.

“What those unsuspecting infants could not have realized, of course, was that these were temporary conditions, a false spring to life that would be buffeted by winds of change dangerous and unpredictable, so fierce that they threatened not just America but the very future of the planet.”(p4) Brokaw’s use of imagery here helps the reader understand the drastic nature of the change that occurred in the world between the 1920s and 1940s. He is stating that the youth of our nation was living in a safe-harbor for only a short period of time, almost as if under false pretenses, and that this promising future of America veered radically off a path as they had to face the unprecedented crash of the stock market, with damage so great that over a thousand banks would close, millions of people would become unemployed and homeless, and an overwhelming sense of economic calamity would sweep the feet out from under their fragile vision of security. Brokaw described this in the chapter titled “The Time of their Lives,” as a time when “A mass of homeless and unemployed drifted across the American landscape.” (p7) This gives the reader an image of millions of people hopelessly wandering the country in search for work to survive. The

Americans went from having business to unemployment and suffering from poverty, where some had no choice but, to live on the streets. This demonstrates to the readers how difficult it was for Lily and Jim from not going bankrupt and losing their house. Not only, did they worry about losing their jobs, but they also had to worry about feeding their kids seeing that they were too young to attend school or work. Lily did not obtain enough money to spend on things for them such as toys or affording brand new clothing. This demonstrates to the readers how significant this passage is because it affected the decisions Lily made in managing her family in this case, the only way to make extra money was if Lily sold bootleg liquor. Knowing that she desperately needed the money, she was willing to take the risk to prevent her husband to leave the family to find work. In conclusion, Lily and her family were able to make it through The Great Depression, and Jim was even offered a job in managing a ranch to a group of investors in

The book Bud, Not Buddy written by Christopher Paul Curtis is a fictional book with events that occurred during the Great Depression. Bud is a 10-year-old boy who has lost his mother. He has been in and out of foster care. Bud’s last foster parents were mean and abusive so he ran away. He liked to refer to himself as being on the lam.

‘..Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world they got no family they don’t belong no place.’ This is what many felt during the ‘great depression’ in the 1930’s. John Steinbeck gives us the sense that many felt lonely ‘they got no family they don’t belong no place. The main theme of this novel is alienation; the three characters, Curley’s wife, candy, and crooks are all alienated, and felt it by another person at some point. They all have dreams... it’s the American dream... but not all dreams come true...

The Great Depression broke down security and belief in American society during the early 20th century and brought out hidden prejudices. The once optimistic mood during the Roaring 20’s turned to pain. The dire economic situation caused Americans to return to past social stigmas where certain groups of people were seen as inferior; as a result, the American Dream, where everyone could seek their ideal of success, was reduced to merely a dream. John Steinbeck observed these changes in social behavior and witnessed the plight of many Americans during the Great Depression. Like in his later work, The Grapes of Wrath, he was inspired by his environment to expose the lives of people during the Great Depression using Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck observed these changes in social behavior and witnessed the plight of many Americans during the Great Depression. Steinbeck demonstrates in Of Mice and Men through the characters that the American Dream was naturally discriminatory towards certain groups of people because of common perceptions held during that period.

When one door closes another opens is the main point of this story. The book Bud not Buddy created by Chrístopher P. Curtis takes place with a 10 year old boy named Bud(not Buddy) who is trying to make a living in the great depression. The great depression was a time between 1926-1939 when nine thousand banks in the USA failed and all that money was destroyed . Most of those banks had bank accounts and people lost lots of money and became broke.

“One day there was a blowout so explosive that it sucked four workmen out of the tunnel and blew them through twenty feet of river silt and shot them up threw the river itself forty feet into the air on the crest of a geyser. Only one of the men survived. (13.1)” America had embedded industrialization so deeply at the core of the 1900’s that even though men, women, and children were all dying from the deplorable conditions and experiences it was considered a time of excellence. However this excellence came not only off the back of immigrants, but from a systematic oppression of thousands, including black Americans. Sarah and Coalhouse both suffer the injustices from white men and the mistreatment of those considered to be “less than”. Injustice is a main theme of this book, and nearly every character dies as a cause of it, “A militiaman stepped forward and, with the deadly officiousness of armed men who protect the famous, brought the butt of of his Springfield against Sarah's chest as hard as he

This is happening again! I wish that Buds mother wouldn´t like she did in chapter 1 of Bud, Not Buddy, Bud wouldn´t go hungry, and they might´ve been poor/broke. I wish that Buds mother wouldn´t die because, he wouldn´t have had to go out and look for his dad because he was already staying with his mother. Also, he wouldn´t be hungry because he was staying with his mother and he could go to school and eat. If Buds mother would have been poor/broke then they both would be looking for Buds dad. Bud Not Buddy is about a ten year old boy named Bud. His mother died when he was just six years old.

Bud Not Buddy and Red Scarf Girl, are two very deep, provocative stories that describe two different, but in some ways similar living conditions of two different children in different time periods. I noticed that both Bud and Ji Li Jiang have conflicts with society, and themselves. Bud has conflicts with the racist society in which he lives in, in Flint Michigan. After becoming an orphan at age 6, he lives in an orphanage. Later at a harsh family’s home, after feeling fed up and tired of the nonsense that they give him he runs away, only after he is stung repeatedly by hornets and is forced to break out of an old shed. Through his journey to find his father, an elusive figure that he knows only exists through an old flyer from his mother, he