Hooverville (which Bud mistakenly calls “Hooperville”) was the name for the shanty towns that popped up during the Great Depression as a response to the economic insecurity. Homeless people usually created the houses in Hooverville out of materials like crates and cardboard.
Hooverville Quotes in Bud, Not Buddy
The Bud, Not Buddy quotes below are all either spoken by Hooverville or refer to Hooverville. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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They were all the colors you could think of, black, white and brown, but the fire made everyone look like they were different shades of orange. There were dark orange folks sitting next to medium orange folks sitting next to light orange folks.
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Hooverville Term Timeline in Bud, Not Buddy
The timeline below shows where the term Hooverville appears in Bud, Not Buddy. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 8
...mouth organ corrects him by telling him the place he’s actually looking for is called Hooverville, as in President Hoover.
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The mouth-organ man tells Bud that this is one of many Hoovervilles, which annoys Bud, because it makes it hard to say if this is the right...
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Bugs appears from behind the tree and the man tells them to look around at Hooverville. Bugs and Bud realize it is much bigger than they originally thought. They also notice...
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When Bud heads back to Hooverville, he hears gunshots and hides in the woods. From his hiding place, he sees a...
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