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Bud is a survivor because he is smart and thinks before doing. One reason Bud is smart is that he thought “a rake could kill a bat If [he] wrong and didn't kill the bat [he] took [his] jackknife out of [his] pocket and pulled the blade open (27). This shows, he thought a rake could kill a vampire bat but then he re-thanked it and got out his jackknife and hoped a silver blade through the heart would do the trick. Another reason that he is smart is, he wanted to do this but again he re-thanked it and ran away “if the Amoses woke up I didn’t want them running to the icebox and grabbing the shotgun, I took the gun outside and put it on the back porch” [33].  Bud wanted to shoot Todd with a shotgun but he thought about it and didn’t know if the Amoses would wake up, they would probably do something horrible. Bud's brains and intelligence help him face bad encounters but he survives.

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Bud is a survivor because he is sneaky. In Chapter 2, Bud is sneaky when he breaks out of the shed the Amoses put him in. This shows Bud is sneaky because he was supposed to stay in the shed, but he broke out because he was tired of being punished. In Chapter 4, Bud plays a trick on Todd before he runs away. This shows he is sneaky because he knows he will get in more trouble if he does something worse. Bud has to survive different things and being sneaky helps him get away and survive.

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