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The Great Depression: Bud, Not Buddy, By Christopher Paul Curtis

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Bud ,Not Buddy Book Report The Great Depression, started in 1929, one of the most horrible times in human history. Factories closing down, businesses and banks gone, and people losing jobs left and right. It was a bad time in America where most people depended on charities just to survive each passing day. Many stories were made describing what was it like at that time. Stories coming from real life survivors to Historical novels all tells us the horror that people experienced during that time. One of the books that I've read that captured that essence is a children's book called "Bud, Not Buddy". Published in 1999, "Bud Not Buddy" was written by Christopher Paul Curtis who also made award winning books such as "The Watsons go to Birmingham" …show more content…

Bud remembers what his mother once said, "Bud is your name and don't you ever let anyone call you anything outside of that either." and "Especially don't you ever let anyone call you Buddy...You're name is Bud, period". This basically explains itself on why the story was called "Bud, not Buddy". The story was written in first person because the narrator uses "I" every time he does something. We do not know anyone else's thoughts and opinions except Buds. Because of this, I felt more connected to Bud's character due to him describing his opinions and experiences as if I was looking through his own two eyes. It's also wonderful on how the author depicted how a 10 year old kid would sound like. When bud talks, he uses a lot of simple and short sentences and use slang words such as "shucks", "woop, zloop, zoop", "yowls". Bud also talks in run-on sentences and I believe this is intentional because in real life, kids talk and talk without stopping or taking a breath out. He also uses a lot of metaphors and similes that makes the story fun and nice to read. An example for this is when Bud saying this: " Todd started huffing and puffing with his eyes bucking out of his head and his chest going up and down so hard that it looked like some kind of big animal was inside of him trying to bust out.". The author used a simile here stating that his chest looked like there was a "big animal" coming out from it. The simile helps us further imagine on what is happening to Todd and gives more drama on that

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