BUD NOT BUDDY

EXPOSITION

MAJOR CHARACTERS

• These are the orders in which the characters will be introduced
• Bud
• Lefty Lewis
• Herman E. Calloway
• Bugs
• Miss Thomas
• The Amoses

BUD

• He's the main character in this novel.
• He could also be referred to as the protagonist.
• Bud's grandfather is Herman E. Calloway However Bud assumed that he was his father for a long time in the book.

LEFTY LEWIS

• Lefty Lewis dropped off Bud at his grandfathers home when he found Bud trying to go to Grand Rapids.
• He gave Bud a bottle of "pop" and a sandwich if Bud agreed to ride with Lefty.
• He claims he knows Bud's grandfather and says he's very famous.

HERMAN E. CALLOWAY

• Herman is Bud's grandfather
• He tends to be grumpy all the time. This is because his daughter, Bud's mom, died
• He is the main name of the band, Herman E.Calloway And The Dusky Devastators Of The Depression.

BUGS

• He is Bud's " room mate" at the home.
• He is nicknamed Bugs because one day at the home, he got a cockroach stuck in his ear and had to have it surgically removed so the name " just sorta stuck"

MISS THOMAS

• She is the one who lives with Herman and the band
• She cared for Bud when he was crying at the restaurant. She gave him the comfort of a mother.
• He had not felt that in a long time.

The Amoses

• Todd, he would probably be the antagonist in the story
• He was the one who stuck the TICONDEROGA pencil all the way up to R in Bud's nose.
• The rest of the family is Mrs. Amos and Mr. Amos. They are equally as mean.

EVENTS

• Rising and falling action. The rising action would be when Bud finally gets to meet his "father", or so he thinks.
• The falling action would be when Bud misses the train to Chicago and bugs throws his suitcase out of the train for him to survive.
• Bugs was not being mean, he was just trying to give Bud his belongings back off the train because he knew he'd officially missed the train.

CLIMAX

• The most exciting part of the story would probably be when the band members figured out that Bud was not lying and Angela was in fact his mother and Hermans daughter.

RESOLUTION

• The resolution came when Bud was accepted into the house even though he was not Hermans son.

CONFLICT

• The conflict of the story was basically the whole book until the end. Everything went wrong with all of his foster families, he missed the train, Herman is his grandfather not like he'd hoped. But then at the end, he figured out that if he stayed there, then this was as close to home as it was going to get. And it did eventually become the place he wanted to be.

PERSON VS. PERSON

• The person vs. person example in this book would probably be when Todd and Bud had a " fight".

PERSON VS. NATURE

• The person VS. Nature examples in this book are one, when Bud is walking to Grand Rapids. Two, when he had to sleep under a Christmas tree next to the library.

PERSON VS. SOCIETY

• The part of the book with person VS. Society is when Bud is late to get breakfast and he wasn't going to get to eat. If he kept arguing, he probably would've gotten beaten by the man with the strap.

PERSON VS. SELF

• The part of the story that includes Person Vs. Self is the fact that because of Bud's fear of being jumped in his sleep, he keeps his jackknife open in his hands while he's sleeping.

THEMES

• I think the theme of this book would be, don't be afraid to do courageous things, because you only live once

POINT OF VIEW

• This story is written in Buds point of view.
• He is the main character of the story and he also plays the role of the narrator.
• It is written in first person.

MOOD

• The mood of the story is happy at some points, sad at another, and angry occasionally. It changes throughout the whole book

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