Ready Reference Treatise: Bud, Not Buddy

By Raja Sharma

“Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis was first published in 1999. It is a children’s novel. The book was the winner of the Newbery Medal for Excellence in American Children’s Literature in the year 2000.

The author was also honored with the Coretta Scott King Award in the same year. This award is given to remarkable African-American writers.

The story revolves around the titular character Bud Caldwell. He is a ten-year old boy. He happens to be on his own. Life is not as much fun as it appears to be. The little boy has to face several problems in his journey of life.

Ready Reference Treatise: Bud, Not Buddy
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Sep 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310371776

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: Bud, Not Buddy

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Ready Reference Treatise: Bud, Not Buddy

Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Introduction

"Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis was first published in 1999. It is a children’s novel. The book was the winner of the Newbery Medal for Excellence in American Children’s Literature in the year 2000.

The author was also honored with the Coretta Scott King Award in the same year. This award is given to remarkable African-American writers.

The story revolves around the titular character Bud Caldwell. He is a ten-year old boy. He happens to be on his own. Life is not as much fun as it appears to be. The little boy has to face several problems in his journey of life.

It happens to be the period of Great Depression and being on own for the little boy is doubly hard. It is one of the worst things that could happen to a little boy, particularly when he is an African-American boy born and brought up in a highly racist place.

The story is set in 1935 in Flint, Michigan. Life is hard for the majority of the people living there.

The author generally includes the themes such as racism, family, love, and hope, etc. in most of the author’s work. The present book also investigates these themes in great details.

The book is included in the reading lists at several schools and colleges for the students of English or American literature. In some colleges and schools it is also included in the course of study for the students of Literature, particularly African-American literature.

Chapter Two: Plot Overview

Bud Caldwell is the central character in the novel. He is a ten-year old African-American boy on his own. This orphan lives in Flint, Michigan. The story takes place in 1936 during the period of Great Depression.

His mother happens to have passed away four years before. Since then Bud has been living in an orphanage. He has also lived in several foster homes for brief periods.

He has some of his mother’s things with him. They include a bag of rocks, a blanket, a photograph of his mother as a child, and some fliers which show Herman E. Calloway and his Jazz band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression.

As the story opens, we find Bud being placed with a new foster family, the Amoses. The family has a twelve years old son Todd Amos.

When Bud meets him, the boy begins to tease him and begins to call him Buddy. Bud has a fight with Todd, and consequently he has to spend the night in the shed in the garden.

There is a hornets’ nest in that shed. Bud mistakes that nest for a vampire bat. He gets frightened and hits the hornets’ nest with a rake. The hornets get upset and sting Bud. He manages to run out of the shed.