Jenae's Review

Jenae Liaiga
Ms. Bear
ELA 7 Block 2
12 October 2012
                                Final Review- The Watson's Go to Birmingham
The story, The Watson's Go to Birmingham, by, Christopher Paul Curtis, was like an adventure. The whole story is written in the youngest son, Kenny’s point of view. Although this story is fiction, it is such a realistic story you’ll find yourself loving it more and more. It is such a well described story, it becomes more and more addicting. Join their crazy and funny world on their way to Birmingham.
In The Watson's Go to Birmingham, you follow Kenny and his family, Mom, Dad, little sister Joetta and big brother Byron on a crazy ride to Birmingham from Flint to visit Grandma Sands. Since Byron is  officially a ‘Juvenile Delinquent’, throughout the whole story Byron is, well, a typical teen. He doesn’t listen to his parents and picks on poor little Kenny. But do you think it’s okay if somebody else picks on him? Nope, and Larry Dunn, one of the school bullies had to learn that the hard way. When time comes though, the climax will have you standing on your feet. Sitting on the edge of your seat. Whichever one it is, you’ll still be excited. Especially since they go to Birmingham, which is in the South, at the wrong time in history. The time when blacks weren’t considered ‘equal’ or ‘clean’. The time when whites didn’t want anything to do with the blacks.
But, when time comes, and problems are too much, will Byron drop the ‘cool guy’ act and help a brother out? This plot will grab your attention. Although it isn’t the best story I’ve read, I personally think it’s still good. It is still interesting, but it does lack a few things. I honestly liked how the story ended; it ended on a touching note. I truly loved it because of how the things turned out so different from the beginning.
In what I could really tell, the author definitely hinted how Kenny is different. He also  hints out a lot of how Kenny’s friend Rufus and his little brother Cody live different from everybody too. In Kenny’s life, he get’s picked on by his big brother Byron and the big kids at school too. A lot of kid’s can relate because some of them have older brothers or sisters who like to mess with them, or some people even know what it feels like to get picked on by bigger kids.
All in all, though this story has it’s imperfections, it is a really good book. It is a complex story with many complications making it more and more fun to read. I really suggest this book if you tend to like reading about these times in history. Even if it isn’t a lot of detail in the story.