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PLOT SUMMARY AND NOTES
CHAPTER
10
Summary
Bud is amazed at how Flint
just suddenly ends and the country begins. He even spends a few moments jumping
back and forth across the imaginary line that marks the city’s boundary. It doesn’t
take him too long after that to realize that 120 miles is a lot farther than he
thought. Furthermore, it’s just too scary out there. He can hear the sounds of
mouse bones and bug skeletons being “busted up” by the teeth of bigger things.
Then come the yowls and howls of cats which make the hair on his neck stand on
end. Nonetheless, Bud keeps on walking. Eventually, he stops jumping into the
bushes when a car goes by and that gets him into just a little trouble.
He has gone through three small towns when a car bounces up over the hill, its
headlights momentarily blinding him. He decides he better jump into the shrubs
along the road. The guy in the car puts on the brakes, puts it into reverse, and
stops about thirty giant steps away from Bud. He steps out of the car, putting
on a hat that makes Bud think he’s a soldier. He comes to that conclusion, because
the.......
Notes
This chapter is full of humor
even though Bud would no doubt find it not funny at all. However, the humor lies
in a little boy, who thinks funny is jumping back and forth across and imaginary
boundary line, getting the best of grown man all because of........
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