Watson Go To Birmingham Characters

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 Impact and Change of Byron and Kenny Watson One problem in the world is that people do not value or love the things they have, until they are taken away. This is seen in the Historical Fiction The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 when Joey goes to Sunday School, and a man drops a bomb on it. This is when the dynamic characters in the novel, Kenny and Byron, transform after arriving in Birmingham. Kenny Watson’s transformation is important to this novel because Kenny transforms from a kid that didn’t really care much about anything to a nice caring person. Now he values all his things and family very much.

“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.

Have 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.

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.

This is my book report about, “The Amulet Book 1 The Stonekeeper” by Kazu Kibuishi. The main characters of the story are Emily, Navin, Miskit, Karen, and Silas. Emily is the 12-year-old daughter of Karen Hayes. Emily is the natural born leader who hasn’t been the same ever since she witnessed her father’s death. Navin is the youngest of the Hayes family. He loves video games, robots, and making Emily laugh. Miskit is known as the brains of the team and acts as Silas’s right-hand robot for many years. Karen is Emily’s mother. She is a single mother who wants what is best for her kids. She’s still going through some tough problems ever since her husband died. Silas is Emily’s great-grandfather and the previous owner of the amulet. The bad guy in the story is the Elf King’s son, Trellis. He sent the monster after Emily’s mother in order to get to Emily.

The tragic poem, “The Ballad of Birmingham,” begins with a young child asking an imploring question to her mother, “May I go downtown instead of out to play” (Randall, 669)?

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.

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

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, 1963, the Watson Family travels down to Alabama to teach Byron a lesson. The Watsons take a huge risk by traveling down south. Because there are so many negative possibilities, it was not worth it for the watsons to go to Birmingham.

Sometimes siblings fight ,but in the end, they usually make up. In The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by: Christopher Paul, Kenny and Byron get in lots of fights both physical and verbal. While they are mean to each other in the beginning, by the end they seem to forgive each other and are much nicer.

What character changed the most? Do you ever get surprised when a character changes drastically? In “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” there are many characters. The two that changed more than others are Byron and Kenny.

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