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(AG). SUMMARY STATEMENT The Watsons Family which has a mother named Wilona, a father named Daniel, an eldest son named Byron, a middle named Kenny, and the youngest child Joetta live in Flint, Michigan and go to Birmingham, Alabama. The oldest son, Byron, is a juvenile delinquent¨ and needs the guidance of their strict grandmother, Grandma Sands, to straighten out Byron. Also, when the family heads to the south they realize that there is racial discrimination towards African Americans which leads to a bombing of a church. (CLAIM) Christopher Paul Curtis’ historical fiction novel The Watsons Go To Birmingham -- 1963 (TAG-- Title, author, genre) is an allegorical novel because the events in the novel, though they are fiction, relate to real life events that happened during the 1060s in the States.
Within the novel, (What happened right before the scene? CONTEXT) Byron purchases Swedish cremes based off the credit on the list at the store. Byron began to eat them and then Kenny came along and began eating them as well after Byron offered them to him . A mourning dove flies and sits on a telephone wire, and …show more content…
Grandma Sands tells them about it but they didn't understand her because of her accent so they hear Wool Pooh instead of whirl pool. Grandma Sands to them “If y'all are going to the water you stay away from Collier's Landing. A couple of years ago Miss Thomas's little boy Jimmy got caught up in some kinda whirlpool there and they didn’t find the poor soul’s body for three days.”(Curtis 169) Kenny didn't listen anyway and skipped all the warnings he got on the path to Collier’s Landing. At first he was just messing around trying to catch stuff like fish and turtles. He tried to catch a turtle and went too far out and got sucked into the
(AG). SUMMARY STATEMENT The Watsons Family which has a mother named Wilona, a father named Daniel, an eldest son named Byron, a middle named Kenny, and the youngest child Joetta live in Flint, Michigan and go to Birmingham, Alabama. The oldest son, Byron, is a juvenile delinquent¨ and needs the guidance of their strict grandmother, Grandma Sands, to straighten out Byron. Also, when the family heads to the south they realize that there is racial discrimination towards African Americans which leads to a bombing of a church. (CLAIM) Christopher Paul Curtis’ historical fiction novel The Watsons Go To Birmingham -- 1963 (TAG-- Title, author, genre) is an allegorical novel because the events in the novel, though they are fiction, relate to real life events that happened during the 1060s in the States.
Within the novel, (What happened right before the scene? CONTEXT) Byron purchases Swedish cremes based off the credit on the list at the store. Byron began to eat them and then Kenny came along and began eating them as well after Byron offered them to him . A mourning dove flies and sits on a telephone wire, and …show more content…
Grandma Sands tells them about it but they didn't understand her because of her accent so they hear Wool Pooh instead of whirl pool. Grandma Sands to them “If y'all are going to the water you stay away from Collier's Landing. A couple of years ago Miss Thomas's little boy Jimmy got caught up in some kinda whirlpool there and they didn’t find the poor soul’s body for three days.”(Curtis 169) Kenny didn't listen anyway and skipped all the warnings he got on the path to Collier’s Landing. At first he was just messing around trying to catch stuff like fish and turtles. He tried to catch a turtle and went too far out and got sucked into the