Summary: The Watsons

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In the book The Watsons go to Birmingham the culture of that time period is very different in the way that kids had freedom to roam and explore a lot of more places outside of the house without adult supervision. For example In the book, Kenny, Byron, and Joey all go out to Collier's landing when their grandma warned them not to. There was a big whirlpool there which pulled in a little boy before. They decided to go in anyways and both Kenny and Joey almost drowned. This shows the difference between the time period of today and the time period of 1963. To this day instead of being warned not to do something, I would've not have even been let out of the house.

In this novel the technology is a little different from the technology

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