'Response to 12 Years a Slave'

'The movie xii Years a Slave was found on the buckle down communicative written by Solomon Northup. His abduction as a surrender man, his resulting transformation into a hard worker and his detainment as a knuckle down irreversibly neutered the course of his life. umteen aspects of the write up highlighted in the movie are common themes in other striver narratives. This movie reading of the slave narrative highlighted many aspects of the slave narrative that footst each out when portrayed in exact as conflicting to in print.\nI felt that of all the slave narratives we work read to date, Solomon Northups bosh is the best suit to the medium of movie theatre. His story starts in America, and as a freehanded man. This appeals to film makers for a few reasons, wizard of which is the lack of half charge passing or the home in Africa. Not having to film the middle passage helped the film makers quash having to enlist as well as many hoi polloi on deal out on the s et, and helped them be able to invalidate filming in the difficult setting. This absence also cause the narrative by helping to mark the powerless minacious people had in America, eve when free.\n ferocity on Solomons quaint origin is presented in a way that catch up withms so ordinary, so routine, that it draws attention to his regularity of abduction. Because Solomon is unable to enkindle papers that put forward he is a freed man, his assertions on his positive identity and his pleas for exemption are ignored. He is beaten to curb him, and is not even given a chance to state his papers. This failure to see him as a real mortal even though he was a free man, highlights the racial discrimination at the time.\nI really enjoyed the brilliance placed on the play. When he was a free man, Solomon vie the fiddle as a profession, and it was a wonderful social occasion for him. Playing the violin allowed him to support his family, and it was something that do him specia l. After he was taken, his skill with the fiddle make him special, only only as a commodity. It made him worth more money when he was so... '