Symbolism In The Watsons Go To Birmingham

Watsons and their Symbols
Each book has its own story but what most people do not see is that every book has symbols in the story that identify the characters more. This can be seen in the historical fiction novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis like when the Wool Pooh first appeared in the book. The author uses symbolism to convey the message that facing death is scary and that there is no way out of it but it is ok to be scared.
Curtis uses the Wool Pooh to symbolize fear and death, in the book Grandma Sands told the kids that they should not go to right instead of left because 5 kids faced death in that area but when Kenny disobeyed Grandma Sands and almost drowned the Wool Pooh appeared liked it said in the book(176),”He didn’t look like he was related to Winnie the Pooh at all, he was big and gray with squared looking fingers.” Because the Wool Pooh is the symbol of fear and death, the reader can

I gave the shoe on more hard tug and it popped loose from a frilly white sock. I got real scared. I walked as slowly and as quietly as I could out of the church.” Because of the bombing is the symbol of fear and death, the reader can better understand that the bombing was scary thus meaning morality was in the book and that it took a huge part of the book. This illustrates that the author’s message that there has been bad things in our history just like the bombing of the birmingham church. It is important to understand that no matter what we do their will always be bad people and that bad things are going to happen but never go around the corner and look for bad things that is going to happen just stay with your life and be good make a world a better