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The Importance Of Fire In The Watsons Go To Birmingham By Christopher Paul Curtis

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In the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, Momma, Kenny the protagonist's mother, catches her son, Byron playing with matches. This makes Momma very angry because 1) playing with fire is very dangers, 2) this is not the first time she has caught him doing this and 3) fire had, had a significant impact on her childhood because when she was younger her house caught fire and for two years her and her brothers clothes smelled like smoke. Because Momma has experience with fire she knows that it can be dangerous and does not want her son to be striking matches and setting things on fire for fun considering that this could cause serious issues like their house like momma’s catching on fire burning himself or others and

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