Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 Book Report

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.

Two people can be similar in many ways, but they may not know this. Sometimes the two people don't even know each other. Two people wrote two different short stories about two characters that went through different things but were a lot alike. In Richard Connell's short story “The Most Dangerous Game” and Saki’s short story “The Interlopers,” the main characters General Zaroff and Ulrich von Gradwitz are alike in the following ways: both men hunted on their own land, both men hunted humans, and both men died. Out of all the places in the world both men choose to hunt on their own land.

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.

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

Different books, despite different storylines, may still address similar themes. What similarities of themes did you find in your paired texts, and how are they obvious in the character's behaviour?

Byron started to change when he said “Yes ma'am” to Grandma Sands. Kenny started to change when he told Grandma Sands “He can follow directions real good, Grandma Sands, he’s not as dumb as he looks.”Byron also changed when he told Kenny not to go to Collier’s Landing even when he could have easily gone with Kenny. “I really wanted to go see where some kid drowned and now By was choosing this time to listen to what a grown-up told him”. Kenny changed when he decided to go to Collier’s Landing even though Grandma Sands warned him. “Oh, man! Collier’s Landing…”Finally, both Byron and Kenny changed in the middle, when Kenny drowned and Byron saved him and started to cry like a kindergartener baby. “... all I could do was sit there and let Daddy Cool nibble on my head like a kindergarten

First, people made fun of kenny's lazy eye a lot. In chapter 2, kenny thinks that if Byron wasn't there, he would get made fun of for his eye a lot. People must have made fun of him for him to automatically think this, for example, it says in the book that when Byron wasn’t on the bus, Kenny got made fun of, so this may be why he thinks this for school to. Also in chapter 2, it states that kenny gets called Cockeyed Kenny. Cockeyed Kenny is an offensive name that people call him to make fun of him. Also when people talk

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 book The Watsons Go to Birmingham the author Christopher Paul Curtis uses indirect characterization to develop rufus as an honorable character. In the novel the author uses many different traits that describe Rufus. One good example of the Honest trait is on page 37. When Rufus went to kennys house to play with kenny's dinosaurs and battle together. Rufus was always honest about not stealing kennys dinosaurs and Kenny also was glad the Rufus did not cheat. Some evidence of this is on page 37. The author states “because he didn’t cheat and didn’t try to steal my plastic dinosaurs.” Another character trait that rufus has is Forgiving. In the book on page 42-43 Larry Dunn (bully) teased Rufus and cody because they have one pair of blue

When Kenny was at the church after the bombing, ” Me and Momma and Dad was gall too scared, Kenny you was the only one brave enough to go in there”(pg.202). This impacts Kenny’s character by showing that he is starting to turn into a brave kid. This represents that Kenny used to be to scared to do that type of things, he toughened up and went into the church to see if everyone was ok. It is important to understand that Kenny’s moral choices that he chose to do at the church changed his whole personality in the novel. Kenny, who used to be a kid who didn’t care to

The historical fiction novel,The Watsons go to Birmingham 1963, by Christopher Curtis is a story about the racism in the world and about a family who slowly gets exposed to it. The Watsons is similar to America during the 1960 because they both change. This can be seen throughout the novel when Kenny and Byron are faced with difficult events. Many families were not aware of racism in other parts of America.

Kenny does not treat people better than Byron. Kenny is as big as a bully as Byron is. He has had multiple moments of rudeness. For example, Kenny hit Larry Dunn twice, Kenny laughed at Cody and Rufus when Larry made a rude joke to them, and when Byron got stuck to the mirror, Kenny had a wonderful time making fun of him.

In the beginning, Byron and Kenny were like normal Brothers where they sometimes get along, sometimes not. The text says, “Then he made his eyes go crossed, which is his favorite way of teasing me, but I didn't care, because I knew who had one this time!” Byron making his eyes go crossed, but Kenny not caring shows the Byron does it a lot and Kenny is not affected. The text says, “Ooh, Byron you better get out of here, go down to Buphead's until Dad gets home, he's probably going to whip you, but Momma’s really gonna burn you!” This shows that Kenny even though Byron picked on him a lot still cares about his brother and wants him to escape.

The first similarity is where they come from and go in life. Baldwin originated in Harlem, NY as does Sonny. Both Baldwin and Sonny moved to Greenwich Village. This similarity gives the impression that this character is somehow based on the author himself.