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kingn25
kingn25
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High School - 9th Grade

In "A Christmas Memory", why are Buddy and his older cousin such good friends?

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Posted by kingn25 on Sunday September 14, 2008 at 3:55 PM and tagged with a christmas memory, buddy, characters, older cousin, relationship.

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  1. ladyvols1 Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

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    As Capote writes on pg 4: " The person to whom she is speaking is myself.  I am seven; she is sixty-something.  We are cousins, very distant ones, and we have lived together- well, as long as I can remember.  Other people inhabit the house, relatives; and though they have power over us, and frequently make us cry, we are not, on the the whole, too much aware of them.  We are each other's best friends."

    "She calls me Buddy in memory of a boy who was fomerly her best friend.  The other Buddy died in the 1880's, when she was still a child.  She is still a child." pg 4.

    The two are best friends because the older cousin is simple minded and child-like. She has fun with Buddy and he with her.  They are powerless in their lives and have no one else to hold on to.

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    Posted by ladyvols1 on Saturday October 25, 2008 at 9:37 PM