The Watsons go to Birmingham By: Shelby Pettit The Watsons go to Birmingham is a very good book. It is about a black family during the 1960’s, during this time discrimination was a big issue. The family called The Weird Watsons. The family had Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, big juvenile brother, Byron, and the middle child, Kenny. At this point in time Kenny is only 11
In both passages “Watsons Go To Birmingham” and “Making Sarah Cry” have a common theme of Kindness. Although both passages share the same theme they have a different mood. In the story “Watsons Go To Birmingham” the mood is sad. In the story “Making Sarah Cry” the mood is also sad but it is also happy.
This novel is a tale of a young girl 's life named Julie. Julie had been through a lot including her only brother named Masenier dying and her Papa has, well, leaving her having to do all outside man work being the strong one in the family. Julie meets a guy named Hank and they get married and move to Gap Creek in South Carolina, where they get a house for cheap from a man named Mr. Pendergast who made a deal with them that they don 't have to pay rent as long as they do the household for him such as cooking and laundry. Ma Richards, who is Hanks mother, visits them who has nothing better to do it seems like but to blame others. Later on, the house caught on fire which Julie was finally able to put it out before it spread to the floors and walls after Mr. Pendergast being burned from a tank exploding while he was in
At fourteen years old, Billie Jo living in Joyce City, Oklahoma with her mother and father during the Great Depression during the 1930’s. Billie Jo and her parents struggled to live their lives during the Great Depression, because The Dust Bowl destroyed many crops, and Billie Jo’s family were farmers. Her father, a wheat farmer, works what’s left of the farm and her mother spends her time cleaning the house. While her mother being pregnant, Billie Jo does her best to make her mother proud. Suddenly a horrific accident happened, Billie Jo’s mother gets burnt really bad due to kerosene left next to the stove, and catching on fire.
During the frontier days in the hot, dry place state of Texas, lived a family with two children. The oldest being 15 named travis he is a strong hard working kid. Arliss is ten years old, although he lack size he makes up in his fighting ability, Arliss and his dog sam have an unbreakable bond. One day while sam and arliss are out finding critters travis decides to go and find him so he brings along lisabeth. They come to a whole in a ravine and find same and arliss fighting a bobcat in his den.
When they decide to take a trip down to Alabama, they do not expect all these segregation policies that they face and become highly impacted. The Watson’s change throughout the historical fiction novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, which is a good example of an allegory because the events in the story often seem symbolic to the events involving civil rights in the United States. The Watson’s and America have to overcome the struggle of racism. The Watson’s change because of the 16th Street Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. For example, Kenny started hiding behind the couch in hope for something to save him from his thoughts.
For example, Kenny the second youngest and his family visit Grandma Sands in Alabama. Subsequently, they experience a bombing at the church, Joey, his sister,was currently in. For which Kenny commented, “...I walked past where that guy had set the little girl in blue, right next to where someone else had set a little girl in red” (Curtis 186). Before the time of the bombing, Joey had followed a boy who looked like Kenny away from the church. As a result, she was not found until later; but she was still alive.
*As all this was going on, my grandma was still teaching away here. * Well, a few years went by, and not only did the two sisters move up into new grades, my Unlce Greg came to Burdick school, looked upon as a Pee-Wee-Herman by his fellow older sisters. A year later Justin Seefeldt, the youngest of the group, was finally going to be enrolled into school, and you guessed it, that school had been Burdick. This meant that my grandma was teaching at A.E. Burdick school and her four children had attended the school as well.
The four children that died were, Denise McNair who was eleven, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Collins and Carol Robertson who, when they lost their lives were fourteen. This attack not only killed children but also “Sixteen others—parishioners and people just walking past the church—were injured” (40 years for Justice: Did the FBI Cover for the Birmingham Bombers?). People of the parish that survived the terrorist attack were shaken with fear for themselves, families and communities. “In church! My, God, we’re not even safe in church,”(The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.) said an anguished woman running from the wreckage.
Two main characters name Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell are always gossiping. Their desire to feel superior to one another is humorous because of how they sound. Mrs. Hopewell likes to call Mrs. Freeman and her family “good country people” which is funny because she is being honest. During their conversations, they think they understand one another but they often miss the point like when Mrs. Hopewell tells Mrs. Freeman that she is the wheel behind the wheel, Mrs. Freeman really did not understand what Mrs. Hopewell was talking about.
The story is about Roger Hedlund and his family who lives in a farm in Lake Wobegon. The story starts Wednesday night where Roger walks out of the house to look for his daughter Martha’s new kitten as he heard it crying outside, but his search ends unsuccessfully. Next day the kitten came back and they Roger decided to let the kitten stay indoors. Thursday night there was a rainstorm which made Roger nervous for his crop as it wasn’t a good timing. Rogers wife Cindy gets upset by Rogers nervousness and convince him to do a trip to Grand Rapids without their daughters.
What do shopping carts, blacks eyes and security have in common? Don't know? This is the story of two daring brothers Jake and Darin, who end up getting into loads of trouble. One day Darin was sent on a task by his mom to go to Walmart and get some groceries for an upcoming potluck, this was an annual potluck that the Eureka high school held to kick off each football season. Darin had just got his driving license, and he was eager to drive, their parents were very strict he only got to leave the house with permission from either mom or dad.
The three girls Daisy, Gracie and Molly are half-caste children, and a trying to stay with their mothers but one day the white policeman came and took the kids from their mothers. The kids where brought to the Moor River in Perth 2000km a way from their home (Jigalong). The decision to take all half-caste kids a way from their home, made a guy named Mr. Neville his job is the chef protector of aboriginal kids he wants to protect the aboriginal blood line. In Moore River the kids are teached how white people live and act and get education.
I am going to show the similarities and differences of how the directors, David Fincher (The Social Network) and Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind), have represented the main characters’ obsession and how it affects them. The shots of A Beautiful Mind consists of mainly medium, high angle and low angle shots. John Nash is often shot in a medium shot this shows him in relation to his surroundings. The film uses colour as symbolic of good and evil for example when John Nash is at home later in the movie he wears beige (light good colours) to show that he is the good guy ,while the character he imagines his friend Charles being in the room and he is wearing black (dark evil colours).
John B. Watson Theory of behaviorism: The term behaviorism refers to the school of psychology founded by John B. Watson based on the belief that behaviors can be measured, trained, and changed. Behaviorism was established with the publication of Watson 's classic paper, Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It (1913). Behaviorism, also known as behavioral psychology, is a theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning. Conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment.
