Short Story : ' Crazy Right '

Bud Cardwell is a ten-year-old boy who lives in an orphanage and goes to bad foster homes, as he grew he became tired of these places. He decided to search for his lost father, in which little clues were left about

Response: I think the central theme of the book is the importance of family. Bud’s mother died when he was only six, and his life had been very tough. He said one time that “my eyes don’t cry no more.” It would have been very easy for Bud just to give up

Bud had a suitcase full of important things like a photo of his mother, rocks that his mother gave to him from different states and flyers that could lead Bud to his father (who he thought was Herman E. Calloway). The next morning after Bud arrived at

One of the major themes in the novel, “Bud, Not Buddy” is the importance of family. This theme is represented in the novel through Bud’s journey to find his family. Throughout the story, Bud looks for his alleged father, Herman E Calloway, as he has no other family, and if he were to find his family, it would give him hope, as he would have been able to find somebody from the family he was born into. On page 86, readers can see how important finding family is to Bud, when the flyer with Herman E Calloway flies towards him, and Bud thought, “Maybe it came back to me because this Herman E Calloway really was my father.” This information gave Bud a newfound sense of hope, which shows how important family is to Bud, as with the absence of one, finding one has been so important in his life to the point in which even a small chance of him finding his family seemed like something that would be able to benefit him in the long term.

In the text it says, “RULES AND THINGS NUMBER 16 If a Grow-up Ever Starts a Sentence by Saying “Haven’t You Heard,” Get Ready, Cause What’s About to Come Out of Their Mouth Is Gonna Drop You Headfirst into a Boiling Tragedy.” This rule helps him so he knows that he is going to get bad news. Bud mentions this rule in Chapter 7. He mentions this rule because Bud was looking for Miss Hill and a librarian told him that she got married and moved to Chicago. This shows that in Bud, Not Buddy Bud’s rules help him thrive.

First of all, the book would be different if Bud's dad had stayed because he wouldn’t have gone to find Herman. In chapter 10, Bud travels on his own so he can find Herman E. Calloway who he thought was his father. If his dad had been with him, then Bud would

To begin with, Bud, Not Buddy would be a different book if Bud had given up because he would have gone back to the orphanage. In chapter 5, Bud is on the lam after

This is primarily due to the fact that the setting of the story takes place during the Great Depression. Without background knowledge and contextualization, students will not be able to fully access many of situations and events (such as Hoovervilles, extreme poverty and emphasis on jazz music and trains) in the story. In order for students to really be able to digest this text, the teacher would need to ensure that students have an understanding of the cultural and economic ramifications of the Great Depression. Students must be able to understand the context of Bud’s situation – he is not simply an orphan. He is an orphan during America’s longest and most devastating period of poverty during a time with vastly different technological and cultural understanding from today. To further push the complexity further, the characters speak using language from the Mid 1930’s. Many of the characters’ words and references (such as John Dillinger, Brer Rabbit and “shucks”; see appendix B and c) will be foreign to many 21st century students. Without support from an instructor or from additional background knowledge, students will be unable to access a significant portion of the information in the text. Finally, the author embeds many instances of figurative and abstract language within the text (see appendix B and C). While not particularly challenging to understand, without a solid conceptual understanding of how to identify and unpack figurative and abstract language, students will be unable to access a significant amount of the text. Because of this text’s complex knowledge demands and unusual vocabulary, although, on the surface, this text is not incredibly difficult to read, teachers should be aware that students’ comprehension of this text will suffer if students are not provided the background

In Chapter 9, Bud goes to the library to find how far he will need to go to find Herman. On the other hand, if Herman lived farther away from Flint, Bud would have had to travel much farther. Besides, Bud faced many bumps in the road, just trying to get to where Herman lived such as, when cars drove by on the road, Bud hid behind the bushes along the road. Furthermore, if Bud experienced so many hard situations trying to find Herman, he could give up on finding him and going so far. To conclude, Bud would have to go a long way to find Herman and could have given

Once he got sent to a terrible foster home, he escaped and later found his best friend from the orphanage, Bugs. They tried to ride on a train for free but the cops came and stopped one of them, Bugs had left Bud for good. Bud was left all alone trying to find his dad.

What if Bud was not alone? In the book Bud, Not Buddy Bud is a black orphan who sets out to find his father. He faces many hard challenges. For example, his friend leaves him on a train. But in the end, he finds his grandfather who he previously thought was his father. Bud, Not Buddy would be a different book if Bugs would have stayed with Bud and not hopped the train it would change the story because Bugs would have been with Bud the whole time, Bugs could have persuaded Bud to still go to Chicago, Bugs could have known how to drive and him and Bugs could have drove off with Lefty Lewis's car, and Herman and the band may not have accepted two children.

Life offers many opportunities to make choices. When we make choices in life we are either surviving or thriving. In most cases in the novel “Bud, Not Buddy” the main character, Bud Caldwell, makes choices that help him thrive. An example of how Bud thrives is through his rules. Some of these rules warn Bud not to say disrespectful things about people that you don’t really know, especially around strangers, and also to tell adults the opposite of what you want so that if you get into deep trouble they won’t take away your most prized possessions, favorite toy, and keep you, or send you to where you don’t want to be, a rule even tells Bud to keep his lies quick and simple so that he won’t forget them easily and trip over them later. These three rules are for personal enjoyment, rather than finding things you need to survive, hence, my opinion is that Bud uses his rules to thrive.

During Depression-era Michigan, Bud Caldwell decides to run away from his most recent foster family and he has no destination in mind. A few days after (and a failed attempt to jump the train), he comprehends that the only place he familiar to go is Grand Rapids, Michigan, to look up the man that he is convinced is his father. A famous jazz musician by the name of Herman E. Calloway, unfortunately, has no interest in taking care of a 10-year-old orphan who could not possibly be his son. Thanks to the interest of the other members, Bud lands on his feet of Calloway's band. Bud is an endearingly naive narrator who has collected all of the things he knows about life into "Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funnier Life and Making a Better Liar out of yourself." No matter what kind of situation Bud may face he is able to overcome. Bud looks for wisdom in his rules about how

The characters are from a poor socioeconomic background, but they are still able to find the Christmas spirit. The wealth of their friendship and the gift of giving make them oblivious to the depression around them. In one particular scene, the friends are baking fruitcakes. They decide that the cakes are for “friends. Not necessarily neighbor friends: indeed, the larger share are intended for persons we’ve met maybe once, perhaps not at all”(Capote). This illustrates their giving nature regardless of their own dreary circumstances. Buddy is a reflection of Truman Capote himself. Capote’s childhood was filled with misfortunes, but yet he was still able to find peace in his friendship with his cousin.

Motifs, which are repeated in the novel, are loneliness, friendship, strength and weakness. Men like George who migrate from farm to farm are often alone. As the story develops, Candy, Crooks, and Curley's wife all confess their deep loneliness. Each of these characters searches for a friend, someone to help them measure the world, as Crooks says. For George, the hope of such friendship dies with Lennie.