Byron gets his head shaved off! By Andreina

Byron's hair style


In the book The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis Byron get's into a lot of trouble. He gets in to a lot of trouble when he does this which makes the parents of Byron very angry.Mama, Kenny, Joetta are all at home in Flint, Michigan and Kenny is helping Mama with the cooking. When Byron then comes home he has his hat covering his whole head and when he walks in to the kitchen he runs into Mama. When Mama see's him she asks him why does he has he's hat covering his face, he then makes a excuse and tries to make a break for it but Mama then stops him.When Mama then snatches the hat from his head she is angry and surprised at what Byron has done, he had gotten a Mexican style hair-do, and she said that he didn't even look her son. Kenny was very surprised at what he had done.Mama was ready to beat him because she talking in southern style but Joetta keeps stopping her so then she just gave up but Mama is still furious and waits in till Papa comes home.

Kenny, Joetta, and Byron all goes into their bedroom and Kenny starts making jokes, he knows Byron won't do anything because he is in enough trouble. As the family waits for Papa to come home Joetta starts asking why Byron did it and he said it would make him look cooler. When Papa came home Mama told him what Byron had done and wanted to it to him. When Papa saw Byron he asks him why he did it and how and says it would make him look cooler and Buphead had made the style. Instead of getting angry Papa asks Byron to come into the bathroom with him, when they are in the bathroom Papa locks the door, Kenny follows and looks through the key hole. He then sees that Byron's hair was getting shaved off. When they got out of the bathroom Byron's head was bald and the family was happy.