Decoryan Holman Reflection #2
The Watsons are a black family residing in Flint, Michigan. Wilona, the mother, is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. Although it takes place in 1963, she relocated to Flint after meeting her now husband, Daniel. Byron, their oldest son is a bully, and tends to find himself in all sorts of trouble. Kenny, who is the main character of the book, is intelligent and soft spoken. Joetta, referred to as “Joey” is the sensitive child who never breaks the rules.
Byron and his friends spent most of their time picking on Kenny. Although, that didn’t stop him from finding more trouble to get into. He got his lips tuck to the frozen mirror on the family vehicle, was caught stealing, the list goes on and on. When Byron got his hair
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Unfortunately, a bomb exploded in the basement of the church. The Watson family rushed to the scene where Kenny found a torn shoe that looked identical to the ones he complimented his sister wearing before she left for church.
Kenny, distraught, ran home terrified not knowing what has happened to his little sister. He did not know that it was actually white supremacists that blew up that Baptist church. While panicking at his Grandma’s house, and the rest of the family frantically searched for Joey, Joey wandered home. It turned out that she wasn’t even inside the church when it exploded. When the rest of the family returned home, they were overjoyed to see Joey.
The Watsons packed up and headed home, realizing they did not want to have their family in the racially tense south. Kenny was definitely shaken the most by the bombing and wanted to be left alone and went into “hiding”. Byron, who had matured talked to Kenny and reassured him that it was not his fault. Kenny then decided to come out of hiding and be with his family
According to Kenny, everyone and everything in Birmingham stopped and wondered what that noise was. Later he finds out that the noise came from Joetta’s church. This leads Kenny to believe that Joetta had been killed. Yet, in the text “16th Street Baptist Church Bombing,” the noise draws the attention of the rest of the community which causes the people to go to the church. The reality behind the noise, however, resulted in the injury of many
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.
One trait that Byron has is that he is conceited. When Byron and Kenny were supposed to be getting the snow off the car, Byron was kissing himself in the mirror and got his lips stuck to it. Kenny, on the other hand, is shy. When he first met Rufus, he didn’t say much but then Rufus and Kenny became best friends. Byron is a bully. Kenny told him that Larry Dun took his new winter gloves. Byron started beating the kid and smashing him against the fence. While Byron is a bully, Kenny is generous. He shared his gloves with Rufus during the winter. Rufus had no gloves and Kenny wanted Rufus to be able to make
Kenny's character in “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” chapters 1-8 evolved in many ways. For example, in the beginning of the story we see that he fears his brother, Byron. However, throughout the chapter we see that he gets more comfortable with him, even to the point where he teases him, “I loved times like this when Byron was about to really get it and couldn’t pay me back for teasing him”(Curtis 89). Speaking about character development, Byron's personality shifts towards Kenny throughout the chapters, and we see that he also acts differently while Byron is with his family. The Watson family has that “weird” family dynamic, as their nickname states.
“The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963” is a playful, yet thought-provoking novel written by Christopher Paul Curtis. This book tells the story of the Watson family living in Flint Michigan during the 1960’s. The narrator of this playful, interesting novel is the youngest son of the Watsons, named Kenny. This book portrays both the intense and devastating struggles of racism that affected the southern states of America, as well as the unity and comfort of a loving family.
and I don’t know where he is.” (pg.129) Eventually, though, Byron helped to (figuratively) knock some sense into Kenny and get him back to his more open self. In the article Today In 1963:
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis is a compelling novel that blends a fictional story about an African American family with the hard reality of the American Civil Rights Movement. In the beginning of the novel, the Watson family is introduced as a unique but regular family living in Flint, Michigan. The “Weird Watsons” as they were nicknamed, experienced the average happenings that any regular family would experience during 1963. These included the schoolyard bullies, the rebellious children, the brutally cold winters and the endless amount of dad jokes. Although this family was relatively typical, each of them experienced violence and discrimination in their own ways.
Austin ends up leaving to go back to live with his mother and father. This breaks both of their hearts, although Austin is happy to go back home. Macey and Austin find out that it wasn’t either one of their grandparents who started the fire. Yet, they also learn that their grandparents weren’t the first to jump in and help the black teacher whose home had just burnt
Kenny is the bully of the group. He is constantly making fun of Frank and Tub, playing on their insecurities. Kenny is the stereotypical alpha male. He has to be in
is one of the slaves of Ms. Watson, the sister of the widow that took
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.
Booker was quite glad he had paid for that insurance seeing as a they had been bombed just about a few hundred miles away. They could see multiple planes flying overhead, most likely carrying explosives as well. A voice came over the neighborhoods intercoms, telling the residents to evacuate their houses and to flee to the nearest bomb shelter. Booker picked his balling son and ran to the shelter alongside his worrisome wife.
Terrified and confused, the two greasers hurry to find Dally, the one person the think can help them. Dally sends them with a gun and some money to an abandoned church near Windrixvill, where they hide out for a week, they cut their hair to disguise their appearances. After a week, dally comes to check on them, and says that since bob died, the Socs and the greasers have become worse then ever, a giant rumble is to be held the next night to settle the matters once and for all. Cherry feels responsible for the whole problem, acted as a spy for the greasers. Johnny surprises Dally by declaring his intention to go back to Tulsa and turn himself in. Dally drives them back, but as they leave, the notice that the church has caught on fire and it had a large group of schoolchildren inside. Ponyboy and Johnny rush inside the church to save the children. Just when they get the last child through the window, the roof caves in and Ponyboy blacks out again.
As President Baker turned to leave the room, he heard a loud explosion. KABOOM! The building shook with a violent force, windows shattered, and walls cracked. Before he and Lucy could get a full understanding of what was happening, three minutes later, there was a second, and then a third explosion. This time, after the bombings they heard loud gut-wrenching screams of people pleading for help. President Baker managed to get himself to his feet and as he tried to stand, he felt excruciating pain and blood gushing down his left leg. When he looked down, his femur bone was sticking out through the skin. He hobbled over to the window. Horrified by what he saw, he immediately became paralyzed with fear and then anger. Suddenly, he remembered Lucy.
Kat and Watson are extremely clever and think fast on their feet to assist the detectives in any way they can regarding the case they were working on. Watson realized that Sherlock was with the killer Watson then takes his gun and goes to the GPS location where he comes to the realization that he is in the wrong building. He sees that Sherlock is with the serial killer and is about to take poisoned pill and shoots the killer to save Holmes life. When Vic and Kat are at the office and Vic is trying to get information regarding the sale of the shipping company from Mr. Pugh but the