Bud Not Buddy Figurative Language

The Great Depression is one of the worst time for America. Books, cartoons, and articles have been written about the people during the Depression and how they survived in that miserable period. For example, the book Bud not Buddy takes place in the time of the Great Depression. Bud is a ten year old orphan, who was on the run trying to find his dad. There are many feelings throughout the book like sadness and scarceness. There are many diverse tones in the book about what people were feeling at the time.
One tone in Bud not Buddy is terrified. In the book, a six years old boy named Jerry in the home was told by the case worker that he was sent to a foster home with three others girls. The text states, “’Jerry you’ll be in a family with three little girls’… Jerry looked like he’d found out they were going to dip him in a pot of boiling milk.” This use of figurative language to display how scared Jerry was. Another example was when the Amos locked Bud in the shed. In the book, it said, “They were going to make me sleep in a shed with a patch of blood.” So far, another example in the book illustrates, how frightened Bud was when the Amos locked Bud in the shed. Finally, this told the tone scarceness through figurative language.

Which is often demonstrated and expressed in the story. One example is Bud goes to the mission with a family who helps him get food. The text states, “Brown Sugar! Shucks I didn’t even mind them calling me Clarence any-more.” This tells how poor they were and happy to have such a little thing like brown sugar. In the text,” this is one of them I said, one of them? He answered, they’re all over the country this here is the Flint version. And all of them are called Hoovervile.” When they went to Hoovervile, they saw a tons of people all homeless living in cardboard huts this show how poor they