Bud Not Buddy Analysis

The civil war was one of the best wars fought on ending morally wrong treatment of people. Even today we still face racism on both fronts where often both parties are racist to the other. However, despite the racism that exists today it is nothing close to the disgusting and repulsive way people used to treat others of different skin. “Bud not Buddy” and “Elijah of Buxton” are stories of adventure from two young black boys in a non-accepting of black people world, and how they made the most of their situations. Elijah was born in Buxton, Canada as the first free black baby, the area in which he was born is a place people went to escape slavery above Michigan. On his way home from fishing, fish he caught by throwing rocks at the fish, he

Similarly in “Elijah of Buxton” Elijah faces racism at every turn and comes to an unprepared slap in the face of a realization about the way the world worked outside of his safe town in Canada. In many ways, the stories are just older and younger versions of each other. Bud was very young so he might not have experienced quite the same amount of cruelty and blunt hatred that an older Elijah experiences from his adventure. In the end both people walk away better people, however, Bud feels the world to be a better place than he initially believed. Elijah probably feels the world to be a much worse place than he ever could have imagined. Before he left his small town the worst racism he had experienced was the director of the carnival believing he wasn't a free slave. “Elijah of Buxton” was put through a much clearer lens in which the real world was viewed for what it really is unlike “Bud not Buddy” in which many people were helpful and nice despite having no other emotional connection to Bud. Though both realistic, “Bud not Buddy” is more of a children's version of the experiences described in “Elijah of