Summary Of Bud Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy was published by Christopher Paul Curtis in 1999 in the Untied States. The author, Christopher Paul Curtis was an African-American who wrote about the adventures and travails of a ten-year-old African-American boy, Bud. The readers get to follow Bud during the depression era in Michigan during the thirties. Bud faces bad times and, is in the search of his lost father. The author challenges the reader to walk in someone else shoes, he shows the readers how life can be difficult and only a few people live in luxury.

To begin with, Bud would have never been in the book Bud, Not Buddy. The reasons he wouldn’t is the book would be written by a white person. The reason it would be written by a white person, is because they think they are better than everyone blacks. In Chapter 1,2,3 shows that the whites always thought or they were better than black people. The book wouldn’t state things in a black's perspective because whites can be mean to blacks. Blacks would've made this book because they are treated bad.

The newspaper was taped in the inside, so Bud snuck out the shed and went inside the house. Right after pouring warm water on Todd’s bed and hiding the family’s shotgun, Bud grabbed his suitcase and headed for the local library.

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.

A third rule that helped Bud thrive in the novel was rule #39. For example, “ RULES AND THINGS NUMBER 39 The Older You Get, the Worse Something Has to Be to Make You Cry.” This rule helps Bud with is social intelligence. It helps understand Mr. Calloway better because he could have walked inside the room laughing at Mr. Calloway but instead he felt a little bit sorry for him. This shows that in Bud, Not Buddy Bud’s rules help him thrive.

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What if Bud, Not Buddy was written in the present? Bud, Not Buddy is a fictional, but very realistic, book. It's setting is in the 1930s. Bud is a young black boy who lost his mother at age six. He traveled on foot and by car from Flint, Michigan to Grand Rapids, Michigan. He thought a musician named Herman E. Calloway was his father, but actually Herman is his grandfather. Bud then grows up with his grandfather. Bud, Not Buddy would be different if written in the years near 2017 because people would have running water in their houses, there wouldn't be a depression going on, Bud wouldn't have gotten far before he was caught by the police, and he might have found his father.

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First bud might shoot Todd and might not have who knows. Oh no, bud maybe shot Todd what will happen. Bud is an orphan who is black and is trying to find his dad. Bud is starving, tired, but he keeps going. Bud, not buddy would be white in the story, it would be better to bud.

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