Comparing The Novel 'The Watsons Go To Birmingham'

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It has become common today that people think that once someone is bad the stay bad, but that’s not always true. This is seen in Christopher Paul Curtis’s historical fiction novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963, when two dynamic characters named Kenny and Byron change when they arrive in Birmingham, Alabama. Kenny Watsons’ transformation is important to this novel because it illustrates how a good, timid, and nice boy can be turned into an adventurous, imaginative, and curious person. For instance, when Grandma Sands told Kenny and his two siblings to stay away from the whirlpools in Collier’s Landing Kenny thought it would be adventurous and fun to go see Collier’s Landing anyway. “ Don’t be nervous, Kenny, Miss Henry said… Man! Sometimes