Bud, not Buddy

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Bud, not Buddy

• Christopher Paul Curtis

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The main idea of the story is Bud finding his
Dad.

• Bud keeps flyers that his mom gave him thinking
  that they had something to do with his dad.
• Bud gets mad when any one touches his flyers.
• Bud travels all the way to Grand Rapids from
  Flint with Lefty Lewis.
• Bud lied to Lefty Lewis about knowing his dad.
• He called Herman E. Calloway his dad.
• At the end he found out that Herman E. Calloway
  was his grandfather.

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The Theme

• One lesson that you can learn is to never to
  trust flyers that someone gives you. Another
  thing is to always stay with the person that is
  taking care of you because if you dont you might
  get in trouble and to young to fix it.

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Plot

• Bud was sent to live with the Amos.
• Bud was locked in the shed.
• Bud ran away from the Amos.
• Bud went to the library.
• Bud started walking to Grand Rapids.
• Lefty Lewis picked Bud up off the streets.
• Lefty Lewis drop off Bud at Herman E. Calloways.
  

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Setting

• One place the story took place was at Herman E.
  Calloways house. In the house there were a lot
  of old things. Bud stayed in his moms room.
  Where he hung a picture if a horses because she
  had a whole wall full of them.

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Characters

• Bud, the main character is brave, smart and
  funny. Bud has brown hair, blue eyes and is
  African American. In the story bud is trying to
  find his father. To do so he uses flyers his mom
  gave him before she died. Then he finds out that
  the flyers are of his grandfathers band.
• Herman E. Calloway, Buds grandfather is bold
  and doesnt show his feelings well. He has brown
  hair, is big boned, and is African American. In
  the story when he first meets bud he is not very
  nice to him. He wont even eat with him. When
  he finds out Bud is his grand son he freaks out
  because that means hes his daughters son.
• Lefty Lewis, the man who took Bud to Grand Rapids
  a funny man. He has brown hair and is African
  American. In the story he is so nice to Bud that
  his let Bud come with him to Grand Rapids. Lefty
  is a labor organizer.

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Words I did not know

• Telegram- a letter I didnt call him, I sent
  a telegram to the log cabin. He still owns the
  club, doesnt he? something that comes to
  you in the mail.
• Hoodlum- a bad child They even said I was a
  hoodlum. Thug, one who commits acts of violence
• kin- joking The way he was so worried about
  me stealing stuff from him before he even knew if
  I was honest or not made wonder if someone who
  was so suspicious could ever be kin to me. A
  group of persons of common ancestry
• Hypnotizing- making you drowsy Then I could
  sniff the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell
  that comes off the pages in little puffs when
  youre reading something or looking at some
  pictures, a kind of hypnotizing smell. to
  dazzle or overcome by or as if by suggestion

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More words

• Sacrifice- trouble He put a old cardboard
  suitcase on the table and said I told the fellas
  how hard youve been hitting the recorder and how
  proud I was of you, so we put a couple of nickels
  together-he acted like he was yelling into the
  other room- and Lord knows on the peanuts we get
  it was a real sacrifice. something offered in
  sacrifice

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The Great Depression

• It started in 1929 and end in 1939
• It was the longest and most severe depression
  ever experienced by the industrialized by the
  Western world.
• The U.S. economy had gone into depression six
  months earlier.
• It was to have began with catastophic collapse of
  stock market prices in the New York stock
  exchange in Oct.1929
• In 1932 they had dropped to 20 less than their
  value in1929

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Similes and Metaphors

• Bud is a busy bee.
• Bud is like the wind.
• Mr. Calloway is a bear.
• Mr. Calloway is like a turtle.

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My Life to Buds