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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This quote from Martin Luther King, Jr reminds everyone that acts of injustice do not occur in isolation; these acts affect not only those directly involved, but anyone who is living in the world that allows these acts to take place. Kenny Watson, the main character from The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, and Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl living in Denmark in the 1940s, both experience injustice and through their experiences different character traits are revealed. Although, Anne Frank and Kenny Watson share similar character traits, one profound difference is what makes them unique characters.
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One of the main similarities about Kenny and Anne is that they are both caring and kind. In The Diary of Anne Frank Anne was able to retain the belief that there is good in everyone. On page 76, she states “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Even in the worst of times when she is faced with acts of such hatred, she is able to show kindness by trying to see the good in people who most would argue don’t deserve it. Throughout The Watsons Go to Birmingham, Kenny shows that he is caring by being aware of the feelings of others. His dad, who is
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Both characters view the world with an innocence that allows them to be optimistic about the world around them and they have an incredible ability to show kindness to others, even when they don’t deserve it. This is something that can be difficult even for most adults. They live in different time periods but both still face a great injustice of their time. When faced with this injustice a major difference between the two characters becomes apparent. Unfortunately, most people will deal with injustice and it is during this time that true character will be
The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 This summary is about a family whose last name is Watson. The members of this family are Wilona (the mom), Daniel (the dad), Byron (the older brother), Kenny (the younger brother), and Joey or Joetta (the sister). In chapter one, Byron had just turned 13, which meant he was an “official juvenile delinquent.”
In the novel “The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963”, there is a character named Byron Watson. Byron is the brother of Kenny Watson and Joetta Watson, and the son of Wilona Watson and Daniel Watson. The Watsons plan to send Byron away to live with his strict grandmother in Birmingham, Alabama due to his dangerous, mischievous, and negative behavior. I strongly agree with this decision for three reasons.
Relationships can change depending on how much a person hangs out with somebody or how someone helped somebody. Kenneth and Byron, two characters in The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, probably went through the exact moment of having a relationship change with a relative. Although Kenny and Byron did not have a good relationship at the beginning, their feelings changed about each other by the end. Kenny and Byron’s relationship in the beginning of the novel was not very nice or brother-like. One example that proves this is, “First thing you gotta worry about is high winds.”
Another item that is extremely important in both stories is the use and importance of fate. Both characters rely on their fates for assistance and for achieving
They might argue that nobody is good at heart because people still rob banks and there are people who rob banks. This point of view makes some sense because how can someone be good at heart if they steal and break the law. This argument and evidence, however, does not prove Anne incorrect because there are always people who catch them so it evens out. Plus those robbers might have a good reason for robbing banks and though that does not justify robbing banks, but that still means that they are good at heart. Based on this interpretation, therefore, it proves that Anne is still correct with her statement “... in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
The two are juxtapositions of each other in several ways and bring each other’s unique traits out. At the start
Have you ever rode in a car for more than 24 hours? The plot in the book of “Watson’s Go To Birmingham”, is about a family going on a trip to Birmingham in 1963 and experience an event that makes them see how wrong color in the south are treated. The plot in the movie is more about how colored had been fighting for their rights and all the event leading up to everyone becoming equal. In “Watson’s Go To Birmingham”, lots of events changed the plot like the movie is focused mainly on Civil Rights while the book isn 't, but Joey leaves the church before it blows up in both, so there are some similarities. There are many differences between the book and the movie, like in the book they all stayed down at Grandma Sands, but in the movie the dad didn’t stay with them.
Do you know why people could be motivated to act a certain way? Motivation can be the key to the reason for a person’s behavior and what they’re doing. Depending on who or what made them motivate the outcome and it could be good or bad. In the novel,” The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963,” a boy named Byron was motivated in different ways good and bad.
“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?” Anne Marie Frank used hope to stay positive during the reign of Hitler. Throughout the whole book I read several examples of how Anne Frank was hopeful the war would end and that Jewish people would again be able to live freely. She frequently talked about how life was going to get better because the English were going to
“The watsons go to birmingham” All kinds of people change in many different ways. Take the two main characters from the novel “The Watsons go to Birmingham” for example. Byron and kenny Watson both go through a lot of changes on the inside and out, but Byron has changed the most. In my opinion Byron changed the most because he cares about his family even more, he acts more responsible and, is a lot more understanding One of the ways Byron changes is that he cares more about his family.
In this part of the story they are caught by the man and while there are many parts of this story where they act like kids and compare the adult to them through the events playing out, this part is different. Here they are acting more adult like and not running away, following the rules and staying put when they are
The poem “Making Sarah Cry” and the play “The Watsons go to Birmingham” have the similar theme of being different. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah is different from the other kids on the playground. In “The Watsons go to Birmingham” the Watson family has a different skin color so they are separated from whites to do everyday tasks. The texts, both share a similar theme, but have different qualities. For example, in “Making Sarah Cry” only two people are excluded from playing with kids because of their differences.
This thought is conveyed in Anne's writing, "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." This gave the Franks' and their companions new hope. At last, there was someone on the way to end the agony from being confined to the same isolated rooms for a long period of time. This outpouring of support from various countries throughout the world, proves Anne's belief that people are really good at heart.
The differences they experience later in life are more surprising because of the similarity of their upbringings. They both come from wealthy, or at least middle class families - their homes may have been a little dysfunctional, but it is assumed that they did not suffer any major abuse during childhood. On one hand, there’s Tyler; the son of a wealthy actor who never sees his father but is doted on by his mother. On another, there’s Kirsten; a somewhat successful child actress who presumably comes from a good home, but who seems to be at least a little neglected by her parents; this is seen when her “handler” during King Lear cannot reach her parents for hours, even though Kirsten had just witnessed a death that was widely publicized and would have been seen in the media by her parents. The lives they lead after the plague reflects their lives before, interpreted through the mind of a child.
Anne and Bruno alike express that there is goodness in the hearts of everyone. This is shown specifically in The Boy In The Striped Pajamas when Bruno goes under the fence to help Shmuel, his friend in a concentration camp, find his father. The idea of a german boy helping a jew is an example of how even when told otherwise by society, people will still help those in need. Anne Frank also expresses this idea when she writes in her diary, “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart,” This shows that Anne believed in the goodness of mankind, even when it did nothing but bad to her. Both children even when they’d only been exposed to hate, still saw with pure eyes that everyone was equal and had love inside