In the book Bud Not Buddy, the author gave us many clues to who Bud was related to. Those clues led us to Herman E. Calloway, which ended up being Bud’s grandfather. There are three clues that led Bud toward him, and knowing he is related to him. For example, the flyer, rocks, and the picture of his mom were the three clues. Bud was searching for his “father”, but with those three clues, it showed that Mr. Calloway, the one that he thought was his father, was still related to him, but is actually his grandfather. The blue flyer was one clue because Bud always saw his mom looking at that one flyer and looking upset. “I remember because she got really upset when she put it on the supper table and kept looking at it.” -Curtis pg 7-8. Bud thought that Herman E. Calloway was his father because his last name was Caldwell and his was Calloway, which was kind of the same, and that gave him the idea that he was actually his father, and then he went on his journey to try and find him. Last, his mom would keep the flyers. Bud was suspicious about why she would keep them, so it also made him think, he was probably his father. These are some reasons the flyer was a clue, to who he was related to.
Another clue that led us to who Bud is related to was the rocks. In chapter 18, Bud found out that Mr. Calloway had rocks with writing on them…show more content… When Bud got to stay over at the “Grand Calloway Station”, he stayed in a little dead girls room, that had many pictures of horse thumbtacked to the wall. “The best thing in the whole room was one wall that was covered with pictures of horses” -Curtis pg 182. The picture that Bud had of his mother was one with her on a horse. Later on when they found out that Angela Janet Caldwell is Herman E. Calloway’s daughter, Bud showed Miss. Thomas and Mr. Jimmy the picture of her, and they found out that it is her, and that Mr. Calloway is his
