Compare And Contrast The Watson's Go To Birmingham

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Why would they change the plot between a book and the movie so much? The book “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” is about a family of colored people that go down to Birmingham in 1963, because their son By was not behaving so they took him down to stay with his grandma for the summer. The movie “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” was about how a family of colored people that go down to the South and find out how much different it was from the North.In “The Watson’s Go to Birmingham” many of the events changed the plot but the conflict for the plot were the same.
There were a lot of things that were different between the book and the movie. In the movie it talks about the bombings and black vs white, but in the book it does not talk about the bombings

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