The Watsons Go To Birmingham Book Report

“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourself,”--Viktor E. Frankl (www.brainyquote.com). In the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, Byron (“By”) Watson changes the most. At the beginning of the novel, Byron does not seem to care about his siblings, but throughout the story he becomes more protective of his younger siblings, Joetta and Kenny. He used to be very rude, but now he is being very respectful towards his family and friends.

Many people assume that people are just people, we have no intentional meaning, but that’s not really the case. This is seen the historical fiction novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis when The Watsons were traumatized over the bombing at Joetta’s church. The author uses symbolism to convey the message that maturity comes with time because with impactful events and people, you have to adapt.

The Watsons go to Birmingham was an amazing book and movie, but I personally think that the novel was better. The novel is better because it has more character depth, it shows theme better, and you can get your own understanding. The movie lacked many things including character depth.

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 Watsons Go To Birmingham the movie and the book have many similarities and differences when talking about what scenes/phrases were in both the book and the movie, also scenes/phrases that weren't in both. One of the many similarities between the book and the movie is in the beginning Byron seems to get his lips stuck to the car by kissing his own reflection on the mirror on the Brown Bomber (the Watson’s car). In the book it says “I moved closer. I couldn’t believe my eyes! Byron’s mouth was frozen on the mirror! He was as stuck as a fly on flypaper!” (13, paragraph 2). Although there are many similarities between the book and the movie, there are also many differences one of them being stated in the book that Grandma Sands was a small

In order to understand the characters, or character from the movie, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, you have to first understand what the movie is about. This movie is about an African American family during the summer of 1963. This family consists of the father (Daniel), mother (Wilona), their two sons Kenny and Byron and their daughter Joetta. The Watson family lives in Flint, Michigan, but decided to take a summer trip down to Birmingham to visit Wilonas’ mother. The planned trip was to get Byron, their juvenile delinquent son, to realize that he needs to get his act together. But as the weeks pass by in Birmingham, they realize how much they love Michigan and would rather be back at home. The character I would like to dissect, is their fifteen year old son Byron. To me, Byron was the only character that went through a major change over the summer of 1963. Byron showed characteristics and actions of how the Europeans used to treat African Americans, but as the movie progresses Byron starts to change and embrace his family and race more. In the beginning Byron was rebellious, unconsciously wanted to be white, and had a nonchalant attitude but then he changes and becomes comforting to his little brother Kenny.

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.

Everyone creates their own movie adaptation of any novel they’re reading in their heads, whether it’s how the characters sound like to what their living room furniture looks like. Sometimes our favorite novels’ movie adaptation is just not sufficient in the way that it doesn’t stay true to the book and ruins your fantasy version of how the movie should have been. Whether if the plot was too drastically changed or your beloved characters are forever tainted by their non-worthy movie counterparts. In one's opinion, the movie adaptation of the book "Watsons go to Birmingham-1963" could have marred people’s opinion of the novel's story. The book “The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963” is centered on the Watson family as they take a trip to, you guessed it, Birmingham

As I watch my family pack up, I don't believe, this is my home, I couldn’t believe it. In the Watsons go to Birmingham, Byron, a kid from the novel, with a big ego. This boy Byron felt the unbelief of the upcoming chapter of his life. Byron caused this because he secretly played with fire, stole from a store and was the school bully, this proves Byron’s disobedience. All this got him nowhere (except Alabama). In the novel The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, Byron's disobedience brought his parents to the decision of moving Byron to Birmingham, Alabama.

In The Watsons go to Birmingham, By Christopher Paul Curtis, a boy named Kenny gets to go to Birmingham, Alabama, during one of the darkest moments in America’s history. Before him and his family left to Birmingham he has to deal with other problems like dealing with the cold time in Flint, Michigan, his brother being mean and beating him up, he has to deal with people being mean to him for being black or not bringing enough food for the other people in his grade that he hangs out with. But Kenny has one friend that stays with him after some rough times and his name is Rufus.

In the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, Kenny has a curiosity of why Byron treats people so rudely. Kenny treats people better than Byron by, sharing his lunch with a boy named Rufus and Rufus’ brother, Cody. Another reason Kenny treats people better is, Kenny does not like to see people getting beat up, he just walks away. Also, L.J. (Kenny’s “friend”) started stealing from Kenny but, he kept playing with him.

Many people assume that an older brother is always mean to the younger brother but a lot of those people don’t know that the relationship can change. This is seen in the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, when Kenny was drowning in the Wool Pooh and Byron saved him and was crying and kissed many times. The dynamic characters in the novel, Kenny and Byron transform after arriving in Birmingham. Kenny Watson’s transformation is so important to the novel because Kenny used to be a kid that didn’t care about anything but now he cares about what a happened and wished he could have done something..

The book The Watsons go to Birmingham is a mix of emotion between making you laugh making you sad and just making you mad. The main character Kenny is a shy kid who gets bullied quite a bit. His older brother Byron is a trouble maker who is a bully and likes to mess with Kenny but he always has his back in the end and he has what he calls adventures where he tries something new or goes out exploring and in the end usually gets in trouble and drags Kenny along on them too. One time Byron gets in so much trouble that his parents are going to Birmingham Alabama to leave Byron there for the summer with his grandma Sands to make him a better kid and discipline him so that he stops acting out.

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham Comparative Essay For The Watsons Go to Birmingham, the movie was better than the novel, because it helps visualize what was going on, and what historical events was happening. The movie helps me visualize what was going on. Especially when the Wool Pooh came into place, it showed me how dark those times were and how close kenny and his family came to death. It also helped me see the way people acted, it showed how awful and cruel they were to each other.