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* ForWantOfANail: If Byron hadn't been acting up, his family wouldn't have visited Birmingham during the summer.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Byron starts off as a self-absorbed bully who picks on Kenny constantly, but eventually reveals a kinder side. [[spoiler:He's the one who breaks Kenny out of his depressed and miserable state after the church bombing with a much-needed pep talk.]]
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Byron vomits in front of Kenny after accidentally killing the mourning dove. He blames it on food poisoning from the apples he ate, but Kenny sees that he later made a grave for the bird (indicating that it was from disgust and remorse with himself).
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Byron vomits in front of Kenny after accidentally killing the mourning dove. He blames it on food poisoning from the apples he ate, but Kenny sees that he later made a grave for the bird (indicating that it was from guilt and disgust and remorse with himself).
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* AccentRelapse: Kenny notes that his mother, Wilona, reverts to her southern accent whenever she's extremely angry (pronouncing "here" as "he-uh", "buster" as "bust-ah", etc.).
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* AccentRelapse: Kenny notes that his mother, Wilona, reverts to her southern accent whenever she's extremely angry (pronouncing "here" as "he-uh", "buster" as "bust-ah", etc.). When they visit Grandma Sands in Birmingham, she and her mother talk to each other so southern style that Kenny can hardly discern much of what they're saying.
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* ParentWithNewParamour: Wilona isn't very happy to learn that her mother, Grandma Sands, is now "best friends" with a man named Mr. Robert.
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* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In the first chapter, Byron gets his lips stuck on the frozen car mirror while he and Kenny are supposed to be scraping ice off. His father makes fun of him for trying to kiss his reflection and cracks up over the fact that Byron's tongue ''didn't'' get stuck, meaning he didn't get [[ScrewYourself "too passionate with himself"]]. Kenny's mother is not amused, and has to free Byron by yanking him off of the mirror as hard as possible (which means he gets tons of Vaseline on his mouth afterwards).
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* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In the first chapter, Byron gets his lips stuck on the frozen car mirror while he and Kenny are supposed to be scraping ice off. His father makes fun of him for trying to kiss his reflection and cracks up over the fact that Byron's tongue ''didn't'' get stuck, meaning he didn't get [[ScrewYourself "too passionate with himself"]]. Kenny's mother is not amused, and after using hot water doesn't work, she has to free Byron by yanking ripping him off of the mirror as hard as possible (which means he gets wears tons of Vaseline on his mouth afterwards).afterwards). Kenny learns that an easy way to get back at Byron is to remind him of the incident by calling him the "Lipless Wonder".
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* ChildProdigy: Kenny's teachers think he's this because of how good he is at reading, and used to show him off to the classes to demonstrate his capability. It gets him picked on for being a "poindexter", but he thinks the only reason he doesn't get bullied even more over it is because of Byron's social status.
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* JustifiedTitle: Kenny's mother Wilona writes "The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963" on the cover of the notebook she uses to record all her plans for the trip.
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* CoolBigBro: Byron eventually matures into this. [[spoiler:When he finds Kennyhiding behind the couch, Byron coaxes him out by telling him that he somehow saved Joey's life and that it wasn't his fault the bombing happened.]]
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* CoolBigBro: Byron eventually matures into this. [[spoiler:When he finds Kennyhiding Kenny hiding behind the couch, Byron coaxes him out by telling him that he somehow saved Joey's life and that it wasn't his fault the bombing happened.]]
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** When told by his grandmother to stay away from the whirlpool, Kenny thinks that she means "Wool-Pooh" because of her thick southern accent making it sound as such and ends up believing it's a monster in the water. [[spoiler:Later, he thinks that the Wool-Pooh nearly killed Joey and goes into a HeroicBSOD about it.]]
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** When told by his their grandmother to stay away from the whirlpool, Byron makes up a story about how she was talking about a monster in the water called a "Wool-Pooh". Kenny thinks that she means "Wool-Pooh" because of her thick southern accent making it sound as such and initially doesn't buy it, but he ends up believing it's a monster in the water.Wool-Pooh actually exists when he almost drowns and thinks he sees it grabbing his leg. [[spoiler:Later, he thinks that the Wool-Pooh nearly killed Joey and goes into a HeroicBSOD about it.]]
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* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Kenny describes Grandma Sands as looking like his mother, if she were shrunk down by five sizes and had all the juice sucked out of her.
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* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Kenny describes Grandma Sands as looking like his mother, mother Wilona, if she were shrunk down by five sizes and had all the juice sucked out of her.
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* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Kenny describes Grandma Sands as looking like his mother, if she were shrunk down by five sizes and had all the juice sucked out of her.
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* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Kenny sees his BigBrotherBully Byron meeting the cantankerous Grandma Sands for the first time as this, anticipating a massive fight between them (and even likening it to [[Film/KingKongVsGodzilla Godzilla versus King Kong]]). Needless to say, he's disappointed when Byron immediately submits to Grandma Sands and obeys her.
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* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Kenny sees his BigBrotherBully Byron meeting the cantankerous Grandma Sands for the first time in years as this, anticipating a massive fight between them (and even likening it to [[Film/KingKongVsGodzilla Godzilla versus King Kong]]). Needless to say, he's disappointed when Byron immediately submits to Grandma Sands and obeys her.
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* TerribleArtist: Wilona is apparently one, if the sketch of a bee and a flower that she drew on the cover of the notebook she recorded the plans for the family trip in is any indication. Kenny mistakes the bee for a fat bird and asks her why it's trying to land on a flower.
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* TerribleArtist: Wilona is apparently one, if the her sketch of a bee and a flower that she drew on the cover of the notebook she recorded the plans for the family trip in is any indication. Kenny mistakes the bee for a fat bird and asks her why it's trying to land on a flower.
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* TerribleArtist: Wilona is apparently one, if the sketch of a bee and a flower that she drew on the notebook's cover is any indication. Kenny mistakes the bee for a fat bird and asks her why it's trying to land on a flower.
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* TerribleArtist: Wilona is apparently one, if the sketch of a bee and a flower that she drew on the notebook's cover of the notebook she recorded the plans for the family trip in is any indication. Kenny mistakes the bee for a fat bird and asks her why it's trying to land on a flower.
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* TerribleArtist: Wilona is apparently one, if the sketch of a bee and a flower that she drew on the notebook's cover is any indication. Kenny mistakes the bee for a fat bird and asks her why it's trying to land on a flower.
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The year is 1963 in Flint, Michigan, and Kenneth "Kenny" Watson thinks that his bullying older brother, Byron, is a pain in the neck who's always itching for trouble. After his misbehavior goes too far, his parents decide to spend the summer down in Birmingham in Alabama, with Kenny's maternal grandmother to make Byron shape up. However, the timing of their road trip coincides with seething racial tensions in the DeepSouth, which are on the constant verge of imploding.
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The year is 1963 in Flint, Michigan, and Kenneth "Kenny" Watson thinks that his bullying older brother, Byron, is a pain in the neck who's always itching for trouble. After his misbehavior goes too far, his parents decide to spend the summer down in Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama, with Kenny's maternal grandmother to make Byron shape up. However, the timing of their road trip coincides with seething racial tensions in the DeepSouth, which are on the constant verge of imploding.
