Pudi is Clemantine and Claire’s brother, older than Clemantine and younger than Claire. When they are kids in Rwanda, Clemantine and Pudi play together in the mango tree in the yard, pretending it is a jostling bus. When the war gets worse in Kigali, Pudi makes up stories that explain in a whimsical way why Clemantine has to hide indoors. Later, while she is a Rwandan Genocide refugee, Clemantine collects marbles in her Mickey Mouse backpack to give Pudi if she ever sees him again. However, as her homelessness drags on, Clemantine starts to forget what Pudi looks like. Later, when Clemantine and Claire have arrived in the United Sates and contacted their parents by phone, Clemantine and Claire hear that Pudi has meningitis. Clemantine wires money to send Pudi medicine, but he soon dies. Clemantine weeps, feeling that, although she’s lost so many people, Pudi is the first person whose death she truly mourns.
Pudi Quotes in The Girl Who Smiled Beads
The The Girl Who Smiled Beads quotes below are all either spoken by Pudi or refer to Pudi. 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 8
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It felt surreal and awful. I’d lost track of who I was and who we were to each other. None of us were the same people who’d lived together in that house in Kigali. Those people had died. We had all died.
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Pudi Quotes in The Girl Who Smiled Beads
The The Girl Who Smiled Beads quotes below are all either spoken by Pudi or refer to Pudi. 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 8
Quotes
It felt surreal and awful. I’d lost track of who I was and who we were to each other. None of us were the same people who’d lived together in that house in Kigali. Those people had died. We had all died.
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