The Wool Pooh is a symbolof death,in the story, the watsons go to birmingham-1963 by christopher paul curtis. In the story kenny nis the only character that sees the wool pooh. the first event that kennys sees the wool pooh is when he is drowing in the lake. the second event that he sees the wool pooh is in the church bombing, because he thought that joey was dead and that he was going to die. and the real word is whirl pool. and that is like a tornado in the water and it sucks you in.