The Watsons Go To Birmingham: Differences Between The Book And Movie

The Watsons Go to Birmingham Final Essay After I read the book and watched the movie The Watsons Go to Birmingham, I noticed there were some obvious major differences between the two. Three of the major differences I noticed include the diner discussion with the white employees, the absence of the character Rufus, and their cousins talking about school integration. These differences played a major part in how the story was told. One difference between the book and movie is in the movie Grandma Sands dear friend Mr. Robert was showing Daniel the father and his two sons Kenny and Byron around town. While looking around with their father and Mr. Robert Kenny and Byron run into a diner and try to order hotdogs. Two white women who work at the diner refuse to take the boys order because of their race. Byron who has never encountered racism on this level before doesn’t understand and gets angry. The Watsons discover that life is very different there than in Flint and not necessarily for the better. This situation never occurred in
The settings I imagined while reading the book were very different from what I saw in the movie. Some of the characters such as Kenny and Byron were shorter than I imagined, but Joetta was taller than I imagined her and Grandma Sands looked very different than I imagined. I thought she would be tiny, really old looking, and very mean. She wasn’t really any of those. The settings were very different such as the church and the Watsons house. I thought they would be more dated. Their house wasn’t modern, but wasn’t as old as I imagined from the context clues in the book. Overall I liked the movie better because it had more information about racism and I felt I learned more about it. I think I would like the movie even better if it had Rufus as a character, but it was still a great