This book is about a family that lives in Flint, Michigan that traveled to Birmingham, Alabama where Mrs. Watson grew up. Byron is going to have to stay with her for the whole summer or until he learns to behave. Which, let's face it, could be indefinitely. Grandma Sands is strict, and Byron is going to have to leave his culprit, Buphead, behind, so he's not exactly happy about this idea. When they finally in Birmingham, Bryon is surprisingly nice to everyone. It is apart of his plan to go back to Michigan with his family.
Then the family meets Grandma Sands new boyfriend, which Mrs. Watson isn’t so pleased about that because she didn’t know. There is a lot of segregation in the south. In the north, not so much. When Kenny, Bryon, Joetta, Mr. Watson, and Grandma Sands boyfriend were walking, and Kenny and Byron ran in the restaurant and Kenny asked for a hotdog and the waitress said “ We don't serve your kind, you have to go out back.” Then Grandma Sands boyfriend said “They didn’t know, they’re from up North” Then they had to leave. The next day Kenny, Byron, and Joetta cousins came over to Grandma Sands house and told them how they marched on D-Day. All the African Americans protested peacefully for justice and not to be segregated from Caucasians. But then the firefighters and police beat them brutally, struck them fire hoses, and let the K-9 dogs bite them. They put every single person in jail. The jail house was full and couldn’t put anymore people in there so they let
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One thing I liked about this book is that it shows a lot of detail and and the characters were very funny to me. One thing I disliked is that people were so mean and would hate our ethnicity. It was very sad that the KKK blew up the church and those four girls died. Its very low to me that someone would put bombs in the church to kill people and all we wanted was to stop segregation. Its very very
This book was definitely interesting to read and it wasn’t a bad book, but the characters were all over the place and it was really confusing trying to figure out who is who in the story because Annie had a big family and a lot of friends. I also thought that the author L.M. Elliott did a nice job blending the historical fact of the Civil war in with the book. I think that a lot of the book was accurate. It was just a little confusing with the characters, but it was a good
I really enjoyed the book because I love reading very interesting and right at the
In my opinion I thought that this book was a very good book. In this chapter I will describe the setting, theme, plot and conflict etc. This book had a few different settings like
Truly the book had shown me that African-Americans were not the only people that were oppressed by Whites, but also Mexicans as well and they lynched not as much as African-Americans and all the attention was put on the South, Honestly, I’ve known that Mexicans were discriminated not lynched, and I felt as though that indeed there was too much emphasis on African-Americans more than Mexicans, which is probably why I have never known of the lynching in the US South west. All of the severe punishments that came with the crimes remineded of Draco’s law (Draco was a Greek who wrote his laws so severe it was said that they were written in blood, sounds cliché but it’s true). Anyway, this book was excellent and I had learned a lot from it, it made feel like that I really did ignore the innocent, mostly, people that killed for crimes that they did not commit or wrongfully accused. Just comes to show me how poorly taught I was back then, but now I know and I will use this knowledge to tell others that other people were also lynched, not just one group over all. I really appreciated what the book presented to me about the misfortunates of foreigners living in another country whose people hate because they are from other places, not the native land. Truly it shed some light into my learning experience when studying the
There are multiple reasons why I enjoyed this book considering it had a good storyline and a theme everyone can relate to. It had a lot of details ,and it was very funny. Another reason why I liked this book was because the book had a good mix of good things and bad things throughout the story. I liked how the author used
This book is a very good book. It is not one of my favorite books, but it is in, or somewhat close to, the top ten list. It has an intriguing story and has some humor in it to make sure that it isn’t all mellow.
it wasn't the best book rye bread but it was a good book. I like that story was about him running away from people that tried to find him and got adopted.it was kind of confusing and hard to believe was that heWas still alive after 2 shots in the leg. but I didn't like of the book was that it was showing a whole bunch of murder and all that. the story was kind of predictable because you could easily tell what was going to happen next. the story was believable becausethis event actually happened but what the part that was not a believable was the characters. the ending was not the best I've red but it was
There are man people that think this book is amazing and there are people that think this book is just not educational they say it brings back the past of things that don't happen any more. I think this book is a good book and explains the things that matter. The book basically show how blacks were treated back in the bay. It gives great examples of how life was back then and on how many people view black not just one opinion.
The racial tone of the novel quickly changes as the Watsons get on the road to Birmingham, Alabama. The racial difference between the north and the south are highlighted as Mrs. Watson plans out the trip marking the areas where the family would make stops. Kenny becomes aware of the reason as
Tyrell, written by Coe Booth, is a story about a fifteen year old young man attempting to make use of his life in Bronxwood, a town in New York City. Bronxwood is notorious for its drug abuse and criminal charges, so Ty, as referred to in the book, has troubles trying to look out for his family and friends. This book is quite the unique and one of the more straight-forward books out there. It consists of a lot of sex, profanity, fights, drug abuse, and alcohol abuse. I know most of these parts make for a unique plot, but they really catch you off guard and proceed to keep you engaged.
As the overall book, I actually kind of liked it because it was kind of hard to understand because they couldn’t use “I” and I like challenges. They had to use “We” instead of using “I” to explain they self or the story. The book was okay as a whole but still kind of hard to understand I got kind of irritated after a while, while I was reading the book because of the way it was written.
There are some siblings that fight sometimes because of their differences, but they also have similarities. The novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis is about a black family called the Watsons who go on a trip from Flint, Michigan all the way to Birmingham, Alabama to visit their relative. But they quickly learn that the rules in Birmingham are a lot different than the ones in Flint. How this is connected is because the two siblings, Kenny and Byron sometimes do fight a lot but then learn that while they do have differences, they also have similarities as well. This essay will be about Byron and Kenny’s similarities and differences.
It was really a joy reading it and experiencing the tolls of the tragedies on the narrator as I read. However, it was a very sad and moving story that would have you crying at parts and laughing out loud at others. I would suggest this book to anyone, as long as they enjoy books that might make them a bit emotional. Overall, I thought this was one of the best books I have ever read, just the story line was truly fantastic.
This novel was really good.It was a great American Southern spiritual journey The Southern folksy language made me feel more in the story. In the novel, there were many great themes, such as language, society and class, love and relationship versus independence,jealousy, and gender and appearances. Language was used very different for the men and women in the novel. Women were intimidated by the men into submissive silence
Overall I thought the book was fantastic with fictional story telling along with the facts of what happened in Abraham Lincoln's presidency. One of the greatest aspects of the book was when for every other chapter they would switch perspectives of the protagonist Bella, to the main antagonist Wilkes. Even though they had different interests they were still able to connect both of their stories together, and were able to be friends in the first half of the story like “Wilkes looked at me, his eyes boring into my very being. He is a luck young man, to be the dearest friend of the beautiful Arabella who is, I am certain, as beautiful as the beautiful Annabel Lee.”(Myers 107). It was interesting to hear not only the protagonists thoughts but the antagonists thoughts seen “I watched the girl go into the White House, and the idea came to me. One moment I was staring at her back, wondering how sweet, charming Arabella could bear to work in the house of the devil himself.”(Myers 109). It had an intriguing feel of a real assassinators connection to a fictional protagonist as she helped him assassinate the president in a theater.