Summary Of Watson's Go To Birmingham

In the novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963 Byron was not a good person in the beginning he did not do good stuff. For example, he was using matches 2 times. Although his parents said again not to use matches. Momma said what she always did if Byron uses matches again.

The topic of Civil Rights is an interesting topic for so many people. This event changed history forever and allowed some people who couldn’t even get good jobs to become president of the United States or even have the same rights as others. In the book The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, the author, Christopher Paul Curtis, wrote a story about a family that is living in this time. The author mostly focused on telling us a story of the Watson family and not really any historical events. I really would've liked it if the book gave more information on civil rights and not just have one historical event happen at the end of the book. Adding some more facts and history would have made the book more interesting. All in all, the book The Watsons Go

In the fictional novel, The Watsons Go To Birmingham there were several historically accurate cultures and events from the 1960’s. Most of the story is based on the mother wanting to go to Alabama, because that’s where her family is. However her husband doesn’t think it is a good idea because he knows there is segregation down in the south, and he doesn’t want his kids to see all the hatred for people of a different skin color. Their children have not been exposed the separation of different skin colors because they live in Flint, Michigan, where there is not a lot of conflicts about segregation. Yet, at some point the family decides to make the long trip to Birmingham. Before they leave for their trip, their dad goes and buys a record player

Published in 1995 by Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a story of an African- American family living in a town of Flint, Michigan, having a journey to Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. The movie came out in 2013, similar to the original novel. This loving family consists of five members: Byron Watson, an official juvenile delinquent, Kenneth Bernard Watson, ten years old boy with a lazy eye, Joetta Watson, an obedient youngest Watson, Wilona Sands Watson, Momma who always look after her kids, and lastly, David Watson, a thoughtful reliable dad. In fact, the movie is quite different from the novel, because the plot events don’t match with the movie, there is fused resolution, there is some missing and different characters, and the focus of the theme are slightly different.

“The Watsons Go To Birmingham,” by Christopher Curtis and “16th Street Street Baptist Church Bombing,” by Jessica McBirney

In the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis the author uses personification when he writes “The lights knocked some of the darkness out of the way and we felt safe again.” (pg. 97). With this metaphor the author is comparing the car to a fighter and the headlights are his fists knocking the dangers out of their way. With this personification the author is showing how fearful and threatened the Watsons feel at the rest stop in Appalachia. The Watson’s are afraid that if the people in the Appalachian “caught [them] out here like this they’d hang [them]” (pg. 96). During 1963 this is a realistic fear. The author’s use of descriptive language and personification helps to bring this fear to life in his novel.

In 'Ballad of Birmingham,' Dudley Randall illustrates a conflict between a child who wishes to march for civil rights and a mother who wishes only to protect her child. Much of this poem is read as dialogue between a mother and a child, a style which gives it an intimate tone and provides insight to the feelings of the characters. Throughout the poem the child is eager to go into Birmingham and march for freedom with the people there. The mother, on the other hand, is very adamant that the child should not go because it is dangerous. It is obvious that the child is concerned about the events surrounding the march and wants to be part of the movement. The child expresses these feelings in a way

In texts or videos, the theme is important in the text. In the text, “The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963” and the video, Birmingham Church bombing both have a similar theme. They both say that the bombing was bad,and is important in history. It's led to give more support to struggle for equality and end segregation and to lead to the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting Rights act.

The Biddeford Middle school, 8th grade students went to Downtown Biddeford to ask about Crimes. At the Police station, where Harry the crime dog was sitting when they got there. He can sniff out 4 different kinds of drugs. He sniffs until he finds the drug Harry loves his Dog food,. That’s his reward for finding the Drugs. he also turns his head back and forth until he finds the area with the strongest smell. Then he sits down. He gets

     The Ballad of Birmingham resembles a traditional ballad in that it tells a story in a song-like manner. The didactic tone seeks to teach us something; in this case it’s the theme of needless destruction. There are many devices the author uses to create such a tone and to tell such a story.

The poem Making Sarah Cry and the play The Watsons go to Birmingham have similarities and differences. Both the poem and the play are similar because they both have a theme of being different. The poem Making Sarah Cry shows being different with how she is being treated. She is treated different because of how she was born. In the play The Watsons go to Birmingham they also show being different by how they are being treated, but it is because of their skin color. That shows they both show being different, but in different ways.

This is a story about a boy who gets bullied a lot not just by other people,but by this BIG mean pig that he lived by. But one day he was walking home a terrible day at school from getting bullied all the time the only thing that went right for him was his grades and his teachers for giving him awards about him being a good student but all but one teacher didn't like him and her name was Mrs. E she was the meanest teacher ever she loves everyone accept one person and that was the little boy. she was always mean to him but for no reason I guess she thought that he wasn't as good as other kids so she treated him differently from the other kids. he was the only teacher that didn't like him. she always says that she has to stand over him to work and one day just

The next morning, Tommy woke up to a new angel food birthday cake. When he went out to burn the trash before school, he forgot something. So his sister Mary Lou went out to burn it for him. When she lit the fire, she got caught on fire too. So her mom rushed her into the car where a fire blanket lied on the floor. She wrapped it around Mary Lou. Then she took off for the hospital. When Tommy found out that Mary Lou would not come home soon, he knew he would have to do the paper route. After a couple of days, he got used to it. But one day at school the teachers told Tommy and Eddie to go buy some chalk from the Little Skinny’s (his real name is sam and they bullied him) dad’s store. When they got to the store, they saw some really cool Yo Yos.

My ideal roommate would be interesting, inclusive, and motivated. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson display these same qualities because Watson obviously showed some interest in Sherlock when they first met; Sherlock instantly knew information about Watson without having to ask. Sherlock showed that he was also inclusive to a certain degree from him asking Watson to join him in the detective work. Lastly, motivation was shown in Sherlock's detective work. Although Sherlock sometimes wouuld not completely understand situations, he was motivated enough to keep learning mmore information so that he would

Due to Dr. Watson’s health, he was unable to leave the apartment and observed Sherlock instead. “... I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity…,” (p.32). When reading this section, I thought it was ironic because normally it is Sherlock that observes people, yet he is being watched by Dr. Watson. When Sherlock was observing Watson the first time that he meet him, he knew instantly that he was a doctor in the war. As the reader, we already knew that when we read the introduction in the beginning. The only thing we knew about Sherlock was that he wanted a roommate. This gives the reader a chance to get a sense of his character.