Watsons Go To Birmingham By Christopher Paul Curtis: Character Analysis

In the novel, “The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963” by Christopher Paul Curtis, Byron can be very mean to others unlike his little brother Kenneth Watson. Kenny can be mean but most of the time he is very nice, loving, and caring. Kenny treats others better than Byron because he does not physically hurt people on purpose, he shares with everyone, and he is very caring to one another. Kenny does not intentionally hurt anyone physically unlike Byron. On page 16, the passage states “if my lips were stuck on the mirror attach to the car, Byron would have done some real, cruel stuff.”

The book The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 is a very interesting, fun book. In the book, there are many different themes. One of the themes is that your family can help you through tough times and problems, and they always have your back. There are many details that help support that theme.

Byron is the most dynamic character in the Watsons Go to Birmingham because he changes from a bully to a kind and caring brother throughout the story. As the story begins, the author shows us a troubled child, but helps his little brother. In the story, the author tells us that Kenny, Byron’s little brother, has a lazy eye, “ ‘Look, man,’ he told me, ‘if you don’t want people to look at your messed-up eye you just gotta do this’… ‘Naw, man, keep your head straight and look at me sideways.’” (Curtis 26).

“The Scarlet Ibis”, by James Hurst, demonstrates the motivation and determination that Brother and Doodle have to accomplish their goals. Brother always wants a brother to play with. However, he finds out that Doodle was a cripple, and that crumbles his hope of having a brother physically capable of being a companion. Brother dislikes carrying him around and taking care of him. As a result, Brother’s prideful nature and his shame of Doodle motivates him to teach Doodle how to walk.

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.

Scotlin Young Senior Experience April 4, 2023 David Schmidt Reflection I have taken many of Dr. Schmidt’s classes and have gathered bits and pieces of his story due to such, but I am incredibly grateful that I was finally able to hear it in whole. He has been through much. I knew he was not fond of his father, but now I understand why. What he had to endure as a child is terrible. He suffered his father’s wrath and had to become a parental figure for his siblings.

The Watsons go to Birmingham -1963- Theme The 1960’s, a very dark era indeed. Racism, sexsim, and critizsim-the 1960’s is not a time that I would want to live in. It was depressing and crestfallen. But the Watsons still managed to keep their heads high and their hopes up throughout this crisis.

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.

“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.

INTRODUCTION “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. BODY One of the main similarities about Kenny and Anne is that they are both caring and kind.

The book The Spy by Clive Cussler is about a private detective named Isaac Bell and takes place just prior to WWI in 1908. Isaac is in the midst of several spies who are discretely killing scholars invested in the work of dreadnaughts for the marines of the United States of America. Each of these spies is from a different country including Germany, Ireland, and Japan, without a clear understanding of who employs them. Isaac Bell needs to put an end to these killings before the world ends up in a war, leaving America in the dust. In the book The Spy, Clive Cussler makes it effortless for the reader to evaluate the characters, make predictions, and question many events.

In the historical fiction novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham–1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, Byron has changed in several great ways. Kenny, a ten-year-old boy was crying and his older brother, Byron was trying to comfort him. A little while before this, there was an incident where Joetta, Byron and Kenny’s little sister, could have died. There was a bombing at the church where Joetta was attending, and the Watson family hears about this, worried for Joetta. Joetta arrives home safely, asking Kenny why he changed his clothes.

“More weight,” stated by Giles Corey from, “The Crucible,” before he was pressed to death for witchcraft. Giles Corey was one of the oldest people to be killed during the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials was a series of events that took place in 1692, where innocent people were hung for apparently being witches. The people in the trials were tried in court and the girls who accused them would act like the person or people were sending spirits towards them to make the judges believe them. Giles Corey reminds me of myself by his sarcasm during conversations, always acting ornery, and the comical remarks he makes.

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.

If you had a button and everytime you pushed it you got $50,000 but someone you didn’t know died, would you do it? What if instead of it being someone you didn’t know it was someone you knew, then would you still do it? Well in the short story Button, Button by Richard Matheson the 2 main characters experience that situation. Throughout this story, Matheson uses red herrings to convince us that something good will come out of the climax, but instead, a tragic event happens.