In literature many authors decide to make their big idea about people going through challenges. We all have experience overcoming challenges. I believe that in Watsons go to Birmingham 1963 the big idea is that when people go to the hardest of times together it brings out the best in them. I also can’t help but notice the metaphors in Watsons go to Birmingham. There is so much metaphor it fills the book.
The Watson’s start out in the story as individuals in disagreement most of the time. They fight and make fun of each other and they don’t seem like a very good family. But then they start having some issues in the family. Byron begins to have an addiction to playing with fire. This only gets worse and Byron’s parents decide they can’t take Byron’s rebellions acts any more.
Byron’s parents decide to hand over Byron to his grandma in Birmingham,
Alabama. Byron’s younger sister and younger brother are not happy about their family being pulled apart. But they do not have a choice. As they began their drive across the country they ran into problems and obstacles. These things pushed their family to the limit and it brought the best out in them all.
An example of this is the time when the Watson’s were in Alabama and the local Sunday school was bombed. Byron’s little brother Kenneth was very terrorized by the bombing there were little kids lying dead on the flour. After it was all over Kenneth was having horrible post dramatic stress disorder. Then none other than Byron who had bin a jerk for almost the whole book decided to reach out to Kenneth.
The thing that is almost impossible to over look in the Watson’s go to Birmingham is the amount of metaphor used. But the thing is that there is so much. On every page. Around every corner there always seems to be metaphor. There is so much that it makes the appearance of a metaphor less powerful. In an essay you are support to express yourself and I am when I say that the last thing that I like about the Watson’s go to Birmingham is the metaphor.
That is what I think about the big idea and the metaphor in Watson’s go to Birmingham. But it is not meant to make you think exactly like me because you should form your own opinions about it. And you should find your own big ideas. I hope that my writing has pushed your thinking and expressed myself and the idea that the hardest of times bring out the best in people.