When the Watson's travel to Birmingham, Alabama to drop him off to their Grandma Sands to set Byron straight, Byron is changed forever. Throughout the story, Christopher Paul Curtis first portrays Byron as a selfish and cruel character, but by the end, Byron changes into a more mature 13 year old.
This is due to warmer climates that are closer to the equator and therefore having a higher likely hood of there being more swamps closer to the equator.
