The book explains more about slavery. The movie makes slavery appear very easygoing and mild. When the book makes it appear very real and how slavery actually was. In the book it talks about pit schools and the movie doesn't even discuss them.
But at the same time it showed the brutality of racism back in the day. The author used a large amount of evidence to show the entirety of racism what has occurred throughout history, and was has been done to fight for
In his essay “The Battle for My Body” Richard Rhodes relives the two of the most difficult years of his childhood, the period during which he lived with his father and his stepmother, Anne. She was a selfish and sadistic woman and as Rhodes says, “we never did call her Mother…” (45). Anne made it her mission to abuse Rhodes and his brother and she employed a variety of methods to do so: she beat them, she fed them spoiled foods, and she refused to let them used the bathroom at night. The boys, too young fight back, had no choice but to suffer. The first method Anne used to abuse the boys was to beat them viciously if they broke a house rule.
There are many similarities and differences in Narrative of Fredrick Douglas and the movie 12 years of slaves; both contents were talking about slavery. The main characters just had different ways they were brought up during slavery. The similarities to Narrative of Fredrick Douglass and 12 years of slaves are both many characters worked on some type of plantation during they life as a slave. Both Fredrick Douglass and Solomon Northup had a poor overseer.
The Slave Ship, by Marcus Rediker was wrote in 2007 about the cruel and brutal actions the slaves endured on their journey across the Atlantic Ocean. He states, “this has been a painful book to write, if I have done any justice to the subject, it will be a painful book to read.” Marcus Rediker accomplished exactly that. This book was not only compelling but emotional, heartbreaking, and makes a reader think, how could someone be so cruel to another living being. Within the first couple pages, the book brought me to tears.
Before reading the book I figured it would be more a story line, however it’s in like manner to a documentary. I questioned if the book was going to mainly be about the hardships of slaves (which it mostly is). I chose this book due to my high fascination with slavery. I worship to learn about the hard times blacks went through (mainly slaves). I feel as if I’m not only learning more about my history, correspondingly I’m enlightening myself on how I could’ve been treated, comparatively what some of my ancestors probably went through.
The Emmet till case and the To Kill a Mockingbird case both have a lot of difference but they also have a like in common. Both cases represent a lot of things that happened in those time periods. Each story signifies equality and justice, but differ in how they started. The despicable hatred of black people in the south was the main plot of each topic. Each black person I sure went though hard times.
Throughout the narrative, the author includes his personal stories about experiencing the violence of slavery first-hand. For example, on page 20, he writes about the first time he witnessed a slave, his own aunt, getting the whip. “The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest…I remember the first time I ever witnessed this horrible exhibition… It struck me with awful force. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery…” The author including his experience of his aunts whipping, in detail, appeals to the emotions of the reader.
Thomas Jefferson and Slavery If I were to grade Thomas Jefferson based upon his words and actions regarding slavery I would give him an D.Because of fought against slavery,had slaves,and help cultivate crops. Why would a person have slaves then fight against it. He was maybe trying to show how there lives are or just to show an example of the everyday life of a African American slave.
Education is a very important thing to have both in modern time as well as back in the 19th century. Education is also one of the similarities a Camp 14 prisoner shares with a slave in the 19th century. Education was or is being used in both events as a way to oppress and brainwash the people, which makes this a similarity. Knowledge was also very different at Camp 14 than being a slave. Education was used in Camp 14 by teaching the inmates the rules they are suppose to follow as well as what the consequences would be as a result to breaking them.
The first thing that the two book have in common is a fight for goal. Frederick Douglass explicitly expresses in the autobiography his fight against slavery. The whole book is a personal account of the horrors and wrongs of slavery and his experience with it. This just shows how Frederick’s clear purpose makes it effective as it states facts and experiences. In The Awakening the goal is to fight for equal rights for women.
“Bruises fade, but the pain lasts forever” (Christina Kelly). This compelling quote depicts the horrifying side effects of abuse. In the gripping novel titled “Indian Horse,” author Richard Wagamese successfully informs readers about the severely unfair conditions in which the Native Indians were treated. Through Saul’s terrifying experiences in the Residential school and hockey tournaments, readers can effectively identify the purpose of the novel – treating someone through any kind of abuse can leave them with long lasting pain, and memories that will haunt them forever. There were numerous incidents at the residential school regarding physical abuse, and after effects that followed.
Whips, cigarette burns, broken bones, starvation -- every slave has suffered these tortures, but sex slaves suffer each of these as well as innumerable counts of rape – ten, fifteen, twenty or more times per day. In brothels across the globe, I met women and children who suffered unspeakable acts of barbarity (Kara p. preface x). This portion of the book really reminded me of The Stickup Kids and the experiences that the stickup kids had with raiding drug dealers. The torture that these men did to the drug dealers for the money and drugs sounds oddly similar to the violence that these women and children suffer.
In his quote, Stephen King was inferring that literature in general should make a reader get involved with what they are reading, so much that it will even affect how they are feeling from their comfort levels to how they react. I do agree with Stephen King’s statement, literature should make you feel something, it should be something that pulls you in and makes you want to know more. If you are reading something that gets under your skin or makes you react, it makes what you are reading more alluring, so much in fact that a reader could feel like they’re on a personal level with a book or feel like they are compelled to read more. The purpose of literature should be to have the reader feel something, making you want to react and feel an obligation
Both include the message of thinking beyond societal norms, or questioning what the majority
