Authors note: I am writing about how Bud from “Bud, Not Buddy” by Christopher Paul Curtis, is a dynamic character and how he changes throughout the entire story. The purpose of my writing is to understand how Bud is a dynamic character.
What’s the difference between a static character, and a dynamic character? A static character is a character in a book that doesn’t really change at all through the entire time that you are reading. A dynamic character changes, in such as your view on people, realizing more information, and so on. The main character of “Bud, Not Buddy” is Bud Caldwell- a ten year old boy who has his life ahead of him, all by himself. Bud is a dynamic character. Throughout the novel, Bud makes an impact on the people in his life. Bud is a dynamic character because he constantly changes his personality, he found a lot out about himself and his judgment on his surroundings.
Although some of Bud’s new friends are static characters, he changes so much from cover to cover. One reason why Bud is a dynamic character is because he changes his personality. He just matured and it was noticeable throughout the book. In the beginning Bud was very immature but he is just a kid. Being on his own I think is what matured him the most because he didn’t have anyone to protect him so he had to face his fears. When Bud joins The Dusky Devastators of the Depression that’s when you notice a big step in the level of his maturity. At first, he was scared of sleeping in the little girl’s room he thought was dead, and because of that he thought there were monsters in the closet, but in the end he realizes that it was just his mother’s old room and had nothing to be afraid of.
Through Bud’s journey to find his father, he realized some things about himself that he never really knew. He found out that he is a strong young boy, when his newly discovered grandfather Herman was crying; he found that he has been strong for the past four years after the death of his mother. Another thing is he is amazing at playing the recorder but not so good with the saxophone, but with practice he will be perfect.
“I’ll let you hear me in three weeks when we’re all on the stage” said by Bud (p.231) to his band mates who had just bought him a baby saxophone.
Lastly, Bud changes his judgment on the people around him because at first when he met Lefty Lewis, he thought he was a vampire. What Bud learned is to not so quick to judge people and a lesson is to not judge a book by its cover. Since Bud is black in the time of 1936, he could relate to being judged and he didn’t like it and realized he needed to stop.
Furthermore, a connection I made is that I see people get judged all the time. New kids are constantly to my school and a lot of people judge them. I think that this is wrong because there is a big chance they could be really nice but when you judge them you never get to know them.
In conclusion, there are many reasons why Bud is a dynamic character.
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