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Watsons Go To Birmingham Analysis
The book “The Watsons go to Birmingham” is about an African family that lives in Flint, Michigan but then travel to Birmingham because the mom misses her family. When they arrive at Birmingham they face many challenges because of their skin color.Throughout the book, the character Kenny changes in various amounts of ways. Kenny Watson would always listen to what everyone told him to do but then suddenly he starts breaking rules. For example, the text states “I turned and started to follow Joey and Byron, but finally decided I really was going to Collier’s Landing”( Curtis 171). So his grandma told him to stay away from Collier’s Landing but he doesn’t care and goes near it anyway. Before Kenny would have listened to his grandma and he would’ve
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