Response to 12 Years a Slave

The painting Twelve Years a Slave was based on the slave narrative pen by Solomon Northup. His abduction as a poverty-stricken man, his resulting transformation into a slave and his detainment as a slave irreversibly modify the course of his life. Many aspects of the account statement highlighted in the movie are common themes in otherwise slave narratives. This movie adaption of the slave narrative highlighted some aspects of the slave narrative that jump out when depicted in film as contrasted to in print.\nI mat that of all the slave narratives we confirm read to date, Solomon Northups tier is the outstrip suited to the medium of film. His story starts in America, and as a free man. This appeals to film makers for a few reasons, one of which is the drop of middle modulation or the home in Africa. non having to film the middle passage helped the film makers repress having to draft too many good deal on serve on the set, and helped them be able to avoid filming in the exhausting setting. This absence also do the narrative by portion to emphasize the powerless desolate people had in America, plane so when free.\nemphasis on Solomons alone(predicate) origin is presented in a way that agnisems so ordinary, so routine, that it draws attention to his method of abduction. Because Solomon is unavailing to produce papers that farm he is a freed man, his assertions on his actual identity and his pleas for emancipation are ignored. He is defeat to silence him, and is not even given a disaster to produce his papers. This failure to see him as a corporeal person even though he was a free man, highlights the racism at the time.\nI really enjoyed the importance laid on the fiddle. When he was a free man, Solomon played the violin as a profession, and it was a wonderful thing for him. playing the violin allowed him to support his family, and it was something that do him special. After he was taken, his readiness with the fiddle made him special, unless only as a commodity. It made him worth much money when he was so...