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Watsons Go To Birmingham Byron Character Analysis
Daddy cool, the big and bad Byron. Throughout the novel “The Watsons go to Birmingham” he was a pain. Although he turns into a nice young man. Byron is the character that changed the most both on the inside and the out. In the beginning he was extremely rebellious, mean, and rude. In the end he changed and he now is caring, thoughtful, and will stick up for his family. One example would be when Byron and Buphead were messing around with Kenny, it was one of the times Byron was rude. They swung Kenny around like crazy until he “landed head first in the snow- bank” Byron did not care about hurting his little brother or about his little brother’s feelings. All he cared about was tormenting Kenny with Buphead, which was rude. Towards the end of

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