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Character Analysis Bud Not Buddy

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To overcome tough times in life,a person should never give up. Bud,a character in Bud Not Buddy, By Christopher Paul Curtis Bud loses his mother and stets off to find his father. At the beginning he is cautious and scared but he changes into a existed and happy person In the beginning he was cautious and scared because he had no one to perted him from the mean people. “Right when was ready to push the covers off of me and start running or stabbing whoever it was have been watching me jumped on top of me”. This shows that he was cautious because he was thinking of a plan to escape running or stabbing. “URGENT : contains human blood!!! Oh,man here we go again! My heart started jumping around in my stomach”. This shows he was scared because

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