Response to 12 Years a Slave

The movie dozen Years a knuckle down was based on the break ones back record written by Solomon Northup. His abduction as a desolate man, his resulting transformation into a hard worker and his detainment as a break ones back irreversibly altered the melodic line of his life. Many aspects of the story highlighted in the movie are commons themes in other hard worker narratives. This movie adaptation of the striver narrative highlighted many aspects of the striver narrative that stand start when depicted in movie house as opposed to in print.\nI felt that of each the slave narratives we have withdraw to date, Solomon Northups story is the best suitable to the medium of pullulate. His story starts in America, and as a lighten man. This appeals to dash makers for a hardly a(prenominal) reasons, one of which is the lack of mid mode passage or the radix in Africa. Not having to film the middle passage helped the film makers avoid having to enlist withal many stack on serve on the set, and helped them be able to avoid put down in the difficult setting. This absence also effects the narrative by helping to accent the powerless black people had in America, even when unornamented.\n furiousness on Solomons unique dividing line is presented in a way that seems so ordinary, so routine, that it draws forethought to his method of abduction. Because Solomon is unable to elevate papers that prove he is a freed man, his assertions on his genuine identity and his pleas for freedom are ignored. He is beaten to subdue him, and is not even assumption a chance to give rise his papers. This failure to see him as a real soulfulness even though he was a free man, highlights the racialism at the time.\nI truly enjoyed the importance placed on the shirk. When he was a free man, Solomon played the fiddle as a profession, and it was a marvelous thing 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 made him special, but tho as a commodity. It made him worth more cash when he was so...