Characters
This boy runs away from his foster home in search of his father.
Who is Bud Caldwell?
“This was the third foster home I was going to and I’m used to packing up and leaving, but it still surprises me that there are always a few seconds, right after they tell you you’ve got to go, when my nose gets all runny and my throat gets all choky and my eyes get all sting-y.”
Who is Bud Caldwell?
“I fell on the floor and pulled my knees up to my chest and crossed my arms in front of my head like a turtle in a shell” (Curtis 10).
What is a simile?
This 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression by causing stock prices to plummet.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
The FULL name of the band Herman E. Calloway leads.
Herman E. Calloway and The Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!
Bud believes this man, a bandleader, is his father.
Who is Herman E. Calloway?
“Bud-not-Buddy, you don’t know how lucky you are I came through here, some of these Owosso folks used to have a sign hanging along here that said, and I’m going to clean up the language for you, it said, ‘To Our Negro Friends Who Are Passing Through, Kindly Don’t Let the Sun Set on Your Rear End in Owosso!’”
Who is Lefty Lewis?
“That little idea had gone and sneaked itself into being a mighty maple…” (Curtis 94).
What is a metaphor?
This term describes homeless communities that popped up across America during the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
The number of chapters in Bud, Not Buddy.
What is 19?
This woman is Bud’s strict and unfriendly foster mother.
Who is Mrs. Amos?
“Take a look out the window, baby, there’s a depression going on. How many folks you see living like us, Negro or white? Not many. That man may have his faults, but he’s a struggler, I’m putting my hat in with him.”
Who is Dirty Deed?
“Dusky Devastators of The Depression!!!!!!” (Curtis 7)
What is alliteration?
This nickname was given to the men who rode freight trains searching for work during the Depression.
Who are hobos?
What is Sleepy La Bone?
Bud meets this character in the Hooverville. This character is very similar to Bud and is his “first kiss”
Who is Deza Malone?
“Writ about their car in fancy letters it said, THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE AMERICA TODAY!... Uh-uh-uh, well, you got to give them credit, you wouldn’t expect that they’d have the nerve to come down here and tell the truth.”
Who is Bud’s Pretend Father?
“The caseworkers came in and tap-tap-tapped down the line” (Curtis 1).
What is onomatopoeia?
Unemployment rates reached about this percentage at the worst point of the Depression.
What is 25%?
The name of the president who sat in office during the Great Depression.
President Herbert Hoover
This character helps Bud on his journey. He warns Bud about the dangers of being a Black Male walking on the road at night.
Who is Lefty Lewis?
“We’ve been hoping for eleven years that she’d send word or come home, and she finally has. Looks to me like she sent us the best word we’ve had in years.”
Who is Miss Thomas?
"I squeezed my tongue between my teeth to hold it still "cause I know a lot of times your brain might want to be brave but your mouth might let some chicken-sounding stuff fall out of it" (Curtis 20).
What is a personification?
The Government Act of 1935, in response to the Great Depression, created this system to support elderly and disabled Americans.
What is Social Security?
The town where Bud met Lefty Lewis.
What is Owosso, Michigan?