Why does Bud not like the age six?

by Catrina Earnshaw

Bud doesn’t like the age six because it’s “at six that grown folks don’t think you’re a cute little kid anymore, they talk to you and expect that you understand everything they mean” (4). He says that adults also start hitting you. Also your teeth start falling out and Bud finds that scary. He says “you’ve got to wonder what’s coming off next, your arm?” (5). He also briefly talks about how he ended up as an orphan when he was 6 because his mom died.