Watsons Go To Birmingham Analysis

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.

In the south, African Americans could not go to the same school as the white children. That made them mad because they were made equal. In the the book, The Watsons go to Birmingham, their cousins marched to have rights and to show that there should be no segregation between African Americans and whites. In the book ,The Watsons go to Birmingham it says “ White children often attended large, well equipped , modern schools while African American students went to one-room schoolhouses without enough books or teachers.”(207 -208) They treated them unfair because the African Americans got the hand me downs of the white kids.This is an example for how segregation fits in the book and when it really happened.

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

Byron and Kenny, however, experience prejudice as they attend a predominantly African American school. The author clarifies this prejudice as their school teacher emphasizes, “I 've often told you that as Negroes the world is many times a hostile place for us” (pg. 23). The two sons of the Watsons may not experience racism in Michigan since they aren’t around many non-African American individuals as compared to the south.

“I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.” – Denzel Washington.

Persuasive Essay In the novel The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, the main character’s name is Kenny Watson. Kenny has a mean brother named Byrin. Byrin is always bullying Kenny around. Byrin does not treat people well.

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

In the novel The Watsons go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis the narrator, Kenny, is a ten year old boy who lives in Flint, Michigan with his family. Kenny’s older brother, Byron, is an obnoxious teenager that does not follow the rules. Kenny wonders why his brother, Byron, treats people so horribly. According to page sixteen of the novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963, when Byron was stuck to the mirror, Kenny didn’t do anything to torture Byron, but if it was Kenny stuck to the mirror, Byron would have done “some real cruel stuff” to Kenny.

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one else can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” This quote was by Malcom X, a well known Civil Rights activist. His words show that no one can have freedom and peace without each other. It also shows how strong segregation was at the time the Watsons went down to Birmingham. There are a sundry of similarities and differences between book and movie The Watsons Go to Birmingham. The similarities and differences can be found in the plot events, resolution, and the characters.

My brother and I fight all the time while growing up. In The Watsons go to Birmingham 1963, Kenny and Byron fight all the time in Flint and Birmingham. They also have differences and similarities in their personalities. Kenny and Byron fight when Byron tells Kenny “how to survive a snowstorm”. There both different because Kenny is nice, caring, intelligent, and wimpy.

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 was nice. In the book, Wilona decided to take the children to their Grandma Sands house in Birmingham, Alabama. Byron’s afraid of Grandma Sands so Wilona told him that if his behavior didn’t become better he’d have to stay there for a year. When they arrived at Birmingham, Kenny and Joetta met their Grandma for the first time and couldn’t understand why Byron was afraid of her.

In The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, there are many similarities and differences from the book and the movie about the characters. First, similarities from the book and the movie are that they have the same point of view, where Kenny was the narrator. They also had all of the same main characters. In the text, it says “Dad was bundled up on the other side of Joey, trying to look at anything but Momma. Next to Dad, sitting with a little space between them, was my older brother Byron”(2).

The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a film that tells a story about an African American family living in Flint Michigan during the height of the civil rights movement. The family consisted of 3 children by the name of Kenny, Byron and Joey, born to Wilona and Daniel. After experiencing an extremely cold winter and having problems with the heat in their home, Wilona began to miss the warm weather of the south so she suggests that they go down south to visit her mother once the weather had warmed up. Once the summer came, Daniel received vacation time and the kids were on break, Daniel and Wilona decided to take their children to visit their family in the Birmingham Alabama, a place where racial tensions were far more prevalent than what they were

Both King and Watson have radically different portrayals of the Overlook’s caretaker, Watson, which establish their contrasting views on the working class. King uses Watson to establish blue collar workers offer valuable information through urgent and authoritative diction. When Watson assigns Jack his duties, King writes Watson says “‘Now you got to remember to come down here twice a day and once at night before you rack in. You got to check the press. If you forget… [you will] wake up on the fuckin moon’” (King 27-28). Kings repetition of “got to” emphasizes the importance of this job, and it is essential to the Overlook. Conversely, Kubrick depicts Ullman as well mannered and educated to take his importance, and contribute it to a man of