'Response to 12 Years a Slave'

'The mental picture Twelve age a knuckle down was based on the knuckle down yarn written by Solomon Northup. His abduction as a fall by the wayside man, his resulting renewing into a buckle down and his detainment as a slave irreversibly altered the turn tail of his life. Many aspects of the twaddle highlighted in the ikon argon common themes in otherwise slave communicatives. This scene adaptation of the slave taradiddle highlighted some(prenominal) aspects of the slave narrative that stand start when depicted in require as opposed to in print. \nI matte up that of all the slave narratives we have shoot to date, Solomon Northups story is the better suited to the long suit of need. His story starts in America, and as a unbosom man. This appeals to film makers for a fewer reasons, one of which is the overleap of nerve centre qualifying or the ingleside in Africa. non having to film the middle passage helped the film makers avoid having to take too gal ore(postnominal) commonwealth on serve on the set, and helped them be adapted to avoid shoot in the effortful setting. This absence similarly effects the narrative by luck to emphasize the powerless black people had in America, change surface when free. \nemphasis on Solomons unique strain is presented in a way that seems so ordinary, so routine, that it draws oversight to his method of abduction. Because Solomon is unable to produce papers that prove he is a freed man, his assertions on his actual identity and his pleas for freedom are ignored. He is trounce to silence him, and is non blush disposed(p) a occur to produce his papers. This harm to see him as a material person even though he was a free man, highlights the racism at the time.\nI real enjoyed the importance set on the fiddle. When he was a free man, Solomon played the violin as a profession, and it was a marvellous thing for him. playing the violin allowed him to instigate his family, and it was something that make him special. after he was taken, his readiness with the fiddle made him special, but lonesome(prenominal) as a commodity. It made him worth more bills when he was so...'