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Mrs. Sleet
Todd’s mother and Mr. Amos’s husband. The Amoses, a middle-class family, are Bud Caldwell’s third foster family. Mrs. Amos dismisses her son’s blatant physical abuse—she watches Todd beat up Bud but still accuses Bud of beating up her son—and treats Bud cruelly by taking his suitcase and having her husband lock him in a shed. The Amoses are a large part of the reason that Bud decides to run away from Flint, as their cruelty makes him all the more determined to find a real person or family that wants him.
Mrs. Amos Quotes in Bud, Not Buddy
The Bud, Not Buddy quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Amos or refer to Mrs. Amos. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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RULES AND THINGS NUMBER 118
You have to give adults something that they think they can use to hurt you by taking it away. That way they might not take something away that you really do want. Unless they’re crazy or real stupid they won’t take everything because if they did they wouldn’t have anything to hold over your head to hurt you with later.
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Chapter 3
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After while the stings and fish-guard bite quit hurting so much. I started getting madder and madder. I was mad at the Amoses, but most of all I was mad at me for believing there really was a vampire in the shed and for getting trapped like this where there wasn’t anybody who cared what happened to me.
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Mrs. Amos Quotes in Bud, Not Buddy
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Chapter 2
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RULES AND THINGS NUMBER 118
You have to give adults something that they think they can use to hurt you by taking it away. That way they might not take something away that you really do want. Unless they’re crazy or real stupid they won’t take everything because if they did they wouldn’t have anything to hold over your head to hurt you with later.
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Chapter 3
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After while the stings and fish-guard bite quit hurting so much. I started getting madder and madder. I was mad at the Amoses, but most of all I was mad at me for believing there really was a vampire in the shed and for getting trapped like this where there wasn’t anybody who cared what happened to me.
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