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"I pushed the heavy door open and walked into the Library." (53)

Character Thoughts

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"Bugs spit a big glob of slob in his hand and said, "I knew I could depend on you, Bud." I spit a big glob in my hand and said, "We're brothers forever, Bugs" (63)!

Christopher Paul Curtis' technique is using dialogue from Bugs and Bud.

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"My eyes don't cry no more" (3).
Characters thoughts
And a lil repitition 'cause he says it a lot.

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“I know that’s not as much as you normally get, but I wanted to ask if you minded sharing some with [Bud] Clarence.”

(pg.51)

Dialogue

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"She was also wrong when she thought I'd understand that nonsense about doors closing and opening all by themselves"(43).

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"Go ahead and cry, Bud, you're home" (174).

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“Don’t be shy you two just missed supper you’d best hurry up”(69) Dialogue

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Bud leaves his mom, (says so on pg. 165), and finds his grandfather  (on pg. 146+147)

Was with mom, now with grandfather
Change in Setting

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“I knew it was one of those doors Momma had been talking about” Characters thoughts. (142)

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´'I was thinking. Deza's momma was right, someone who doesn't know who their family is, is like dust blowing around in a storm, they don't really belong in any one place. i was starting wondering if going to California was the right thing to do.'' (pg.78)

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"She said, we've got to talk to some people in Flint first, but if they say it's all right, we were hoping that you'd stay here at Grand Calloway Station for a while."(189) (Dialogue).

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"A million boys and men broke for the train. I got pushed from behind and fell on top of my suitcase. Someone reached down and pulled me up." (83 and 84)  Plot events

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Lefty Lewis gives Bud breakfast and makes him feel comfortable.  (Chapter 11)

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"And Bud, I want you to always to remember, no matter how bad things look to you, no matter how dark the night, when one door closes, dont worry, because another door opens." Pg. 42-43

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“I backed away but only got two steps before I felt a giant warm hand wrapped around my neck from behind. I looked up to see who's doggone hand was so doggone big and why they’d put it on around my neck. A very tall squared-shaped man in old blue overalls look down at me and said “Clarence, what took you so long” (47).

Dialogue between Bud and a nice man.

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"I guess being scared gives you a lot of strength because this time the window flew open with a loud bang.Three hornets found me at the same time and all four of us fell out of the window." (29) (character thoughts)

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“Well, you've had four years to try to heal that scar but its still hurt sometimes”(pg 226).

Dialogue between Miss Thomas and Bud

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“I looked up and down the line To see who was supposed to be my mama when a woman pointed her finger and said, ” Clarence you get over here right now.” there were two kids hang on her skirt”(47)

character thoughts and dialogue

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" I walked over to Herman E. Calloway and before I could think my hand moved out and towards his back. I waited for one of those spaces between the muhs and the huhs, then I touched him. His skin under his shirt was very, very warm." pg.219

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" A very tall, square-shaped man in old blue overalls looked down at me and said "Clarence , what took you so long?"(47)

Dialogue between Bud and the Man.

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"Jerry I know staying with 3 little girls sounds bad but it's better than staying with a boy a couple years older then you" (3-4).

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“I could tell those were the squeaks and squawks of one door closing and another one opening”

(pg. 235)

Character's thought

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"The front door closed behind me and I was in the dark. I tried the other door and it came open but I didn't push it in all the way" (142).
Plot Event 

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"The front door closed behind me and I was in the dark. I tried the other door and it came open but I didn't push it in all the way" (142).

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"I figured out that twenty-four hours' worth of walking was a lot longer than I thought it would be"(97).

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The front door closed behind me and I was in the dark. I tried the other door and it came open but I didn't push it in all the way" (142).
Plot Event 

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"Arise and welcome to the band, Mr. Sleepy LaBone." (197)

Mr. Jimmy talking
Dialogue

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¨It´s called a recorder.Once you have developed a little wind, and some tone and embouchure we´ll move on to something a little more complicated¨(194).

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"The front door closed behind me and I was in the dark. I tried the other door and it came open but I didn't push it in all the way" (142).
Plot Event

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The got out of the car and walked to the front of the Log Cabin. The doors looked like they were made out of chopped down trees just like the rest of the building. I looked back at Lefty Lewis's car and he was still watching me so I opened one of the doors. I knew it was one of those doors mama had been talking about. (Characters Thoughts)

(Pg 142)

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"From one quick look at you, you seemed little on the puny side. I'll bet anything your hungry. Just so happens that I've got a spare baloney and mustard sandwich and an apple in the car. You interested?"(100)

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"Aha. you doggone Amoses, that hurt, but now I get my revenge!" (30)

Bud's thought about the Amoses
Character's Thought

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"Tears started jumping out of my eyes so hard...I felt Miss Thomas's hand come up under the napkin and run real soft and slow back and forth over my head" (172 and 173) Dialogue

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“OK, baby, OK.  I know sweetheart, I know”(173).

Text dialogue and plot event

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"“I wasn’t sure if it was her lips or her hand, but something whispered to me in a language that I didn’t have any trouble understanding, it said ‘Go ahead and cry, Bud, you’re home’” (174).

Dialogue from miss thomas to Bud.
Plot event (Bud cries for the first time.)