'Response to 12 Years a Slave'

'The movie xii Years a Slave was establish on the buckle down record scripted by Solomon Northup. His abduction as a bring out man, his resulting transformation into a striver and his detainment as a buckle down irreversibly neutered the course of his life. many a(prenominal) aspects of the taradiddle highlighted in the movie argon common themes in other slave narratives. This movie variation of the slave narrative highlighted many aspects of the slave narrative that theme out when represent in characterisation as contradictory to in print. \nI felt that of in all the slave narratives we put on read to date, Solomon Northups bilgewater is the best worthy to the medium of icon. His story starts in America, and as a assoil man. This appeals to film makers for a few reasons, unrivalled of which is the lack of put career or the home in Africa. Not having to film the middle passage helped the film makers forfend having to enlist as well as many heap on military service on the set, and helped them be able to turn a behavior filming in the difficult setting. This absence seizure also set up the narrative by helping to mark the powerless ignominious people had in America, steady when free. \n stress on Solomons unique(p) origin is presented in a way that actualisems so ordinary, so routine, that it draws attention to his method acting of abduction. Because Solomon is unable to publish papers that kick upstairs he is a freed man, his assertions on his veridical identity and his pleas for freedom are ignored. He is beaten to quieten him, and is not even given a chance to relieve oneself his papers. This failure to see him as a real person even though he was a free man, highlights the racial discrimination at the time.\nI really enjoyed the grandeur placed on the monkey. When he was a free man, Solomon contend the fiddle as a profession, and it was a wonderful involvement for him. Playing the violin allowed him to support his family, and it was something that do him special. After he was taken, his skill with the fiddle make him special, alone only as a commodity. It made him worth more(prenominal) money when he was so...'