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Character Analysis: The Watsons Go To Birmingham By Christopher Paul Curtis

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Kenny's change in character Many people say that people do not change, but people really can change. This is seen in Christopher Paul Curtis’s book, The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963, when The Watsons go to Birmingham to see their grandma and Kenny go threw a traumatic event. The dynamic character Kenny transforms after arriving at Birmingham. Kenny Watson's, who was the character that transformed, is important to this novel because this shows how a week and not so tuff person can change into a stronger braver person and also changes the way he viewed the world. When a bomb went off in Birmingham a blew up a church, many people were rushing over to the church to see what was wrong and kenny ran over there too the church thinking his
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