12 Years Slave Sparknotes

Not every person story is kept alive, and lives to tell the tale. The Twelve Years a Slave movie has an exceptional story that cannot be disregarded as part of the Post Civil War Era in America. It is a detail memoir, that tells the horrifying experiences of a free African American, Solomon Northup, whom gets kidnapped, then transported downward south, only to be sold into slavery. The only thing that gets him through his enslavement period were past fond memories of freedom in his previous life, being with his wife and two children. This film accurately reflected what African American had endured in these past times of slavery in America. It gave a different insight in the cruelty afflicted on all African Americans in slavery, not only through bodily torture as flesh and blood were exposed from the whip lashings, but

The filmmaker whom produced this movie Steven McQueen did a superb job in grasping past slavery cultural customs through music and dance, a fluctuating imagery between despair and hope of those whom were enslaved. Steven McQueen must have studied 1840s Post Civil War slavery history in great lengths to correctly stage these past events of Solomon Northup memoir. In Twelve Years Slave, Solomon Northup and Pasty are protagonist characters in this movie that each deal with their own internal conflict: struggling with their reasons to live, their existence on earth. Solomon Northup will eventually come face to face with Patsy in deciding whether or not to defy one’s morale, contradicting all their beliefs to escape the world of slavery. Or instead, focus on living in hope for a better tomorrow. Both of them will have experience cognitive dissonance on Master Epps plantation, which there were many trying times in this film. Each of these characters, at a point in time were almost consumed by their despair, when all hope seems