Name____Isabella___Date_____2/11/2011____
Title__Bud, Not Buddy______ Time_3___Hours
Author__Christopher Paul Curtis___Pages_37-243___
Total Pages This Week _89____Start Finish
What in the book upsets you or bothers you? Why?
The way that Bud (the main character in the book Bud, not Buddy) talks really bothers me. The book is written in first person, and Bud is the narrator. Some of the language and spelling he uses is confusing. For example, toward the end of the book Buddy says (as he narrates): “Man! Ever since he heard me call my momma’s name Herman E. Calloway had locked hisself up in his room and wouldn’t come out.” (p. 214).
What has surprised you in the book? Why?
It surprised me when Bud found out that Herman E. Calloway was his father, not his grandfather. Bud thought that he was his father from the beginning, and he went on a journey to find him. He found him by following clues given by his mother. One of these clues was a flier advertising Herman E. Calloway’s band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression. Once he found him, Herman told him that he was actually Bud’s grandfather. Bud was shocked, and never found out who his father actually was.
If you could change one thing in the book, what would it be? Why would you change it?
The one thing I would have changed about the book Bud, Not Buddy is I would not have written the part about Bud living with the Amos family, because it was so sad. Bud was only 10 years old when he went to live with the Amos family, and he did not deserve to be mistreated. They made him live in a shed, and they didn’t let him come inside the house. Their son punched him all the time, and the Amos parents did not believe Bud when he told them what was happening.
Sorry but I disagree with you. The first person perspective dosen't bother me. If it was in a third person perspective it would not be as good. Like for example you don't know what he is thinking. You don't know what he is planning to do and how will he do it.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree that was surprising figuring out that Herman E. Calloway was his grandfather. I actually got sad when they told Bud he was the grandson of Herman E. Calloway. But I felt that it was a sad and happy ending.
Well living with the Amos family was not that bad it actullay led him to be so courages and going for his goal. But yeah if that didn't lead up to him being so courages then I would change that part to.