The Watsons Go to Birmingham

much hate in the world. In The Watsons go to Birmingham 1963, a historical fiction and allegorical story by Christopher Paul Curtis, the Watsons make drastic changes in the way the see life. In the begging the Watsons are a typical family with everyday situations. When the watsons go to Birmingham they experience segregation when the Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church happens. This devastated the family and took away the children's innocence. The Watsons book is a good example of how

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

“The Watsons Go To Birmingham,” by Christopher Curtis and “16th Street Street Baptist Church Bombing,” by Jessica McBirney In the two texts, “The Watsons Go To Birmingham,” by Christopher Curtis and “16th Street Baptist Church Bombing,” by Jessica McBirney, separate central ideas are presented, yet they both revolve around the same historical event. In the text, “The Watsons Go To Birmingham,” the central idea mainly focuses on a boy named Kenny who hears a loud noise while sitting in the backyard

you ever been treated unfairly? Well, in the book The Watsons go to Birmingham in 1963 they were in the middle of the civil rights movements, they were fighting to be treated equally. The main theme is stopping segregation here are three examples ,the Watson family couldn't go to the same school as whites, they couldn't use the same restrooms, they couldn't go to the same church in peace. In the south, African Americans could not go to the same school as the white children. That made them

The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis is a compelling novel that blends a fictional story about an African American family with the hard reality of the American Civil Rights Movement. In the beginning of the novel, the Watson family is introduced as a unique but regular family living in Flint, Michigan. The “Weird Watsons” as they were nicknamed, experienced the average happenings that any regular family would experience during 1963. These included the schoolyard bullies, the rebellious

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

The book I read was The Watsons go to Birmingham in this novel there were many characters and lots of problems for the family.For my opinion I think the most interesting character was Kenny a ten-year-old.The most interesting thing I know about Kenny is that he was intelligent,active,and caring.My favorite character is Kenny also because he told the most of the story and he was a really important and funny character.If I could tell Kenny some advice ill tell him to think about his actions and how

In the story, “The Watsons go to Birmingham” by Christopher Paul-Curtis, the main character Kenny is smart, imaginative, and caring. He is smart with school and people, imaginative underneath all of the smarts, and caring towards his family. Kenny is smart with school, he is smart with people, and he has insight into his parent’s relationship. Kenny is so smart in school, the other kids called him “Poindexter”. Henry tells his tale of being a more advanced reader in, “Teachers started treating me

The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis is about the Watsons family who lives in Flint, Minnesota. Their family includes Kenny, Byron/By, Joetta/Joey and their parents Wilona and Daniel. Byron is the older brother, Kenny the middle child, and Joetta is the little sister. Everything that happens in the book is told from Kenny’s point of view. Each character in this book has a different personality. For example, Byron was mean and tried to act cool while the rest of his family

separated by color,¨that is very true in the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 which is an allegory of differences by the author and poet Christopher Paul Curtis.. The novel is about a 13 year old troublemaker Byron Watson goes too far by processing his hair Byron and his family then decide to bring him to the only person who can change Byron into a kind and responsible boy, Grandma Sands in Alabama. Within three days of going to Birmingham, Alabama a few white men put a bomb on the doorstep of