Journal Prompt #3
By: Catrina EarnshawThe novel Bud not Buddy also explores a social issue that continues to be a worldwide problem. The book is based on the 1930s but poverty is an issue to this day. The book was based on the 1930s during the Great Depression when it was hard to find jobs so Bud grew up very poor. After Bud runs away from the Amos’s house, he is homeless and has no money. Throughout the book we see how hard it was for Bud to get money for shelter and food during this time. “These Amoses had hot water running right into the house!” (18). Bud was amazed by the Amos’s common luxuries since Bud never got these privileges because he was in a home for orphans for the majority of his life. “The way there're more and more kids coming into the Home every day, I had to make sure no one had run off with any of my things.”(33).There are many possible reasons why so many kids are ending up in the home like their families being too poor because of the Great Depression or their parents dying like Bud’s. This quote shows how poverty is really changing people’s lives and how Bud has to be careful because the kids don’t have much. Bud met many problems because of poverty but got through them.
this book really shows us that there re so many problems in the world and unfortunately poverty is on of them. the most heartbreaking thing is that young kids like Bud has to go through it alone. Even though this book is set in the 30's, poverty is still happening and there are so many kids living in orphanages because there parents are either dying or don't have enough money to care for them which is absolutely heart breaking.
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