Part of the significance of Northup's memoir is its description of everyday life. McQueen recreates, with texture and sweep, scenes of slavery's extreme privations and cruelties, but also its work rhythms and routines, sunup to sundown, along with the unsettling intimacies it produced among the owners and the owned." Do you agree that it's actually the everyday details that make the film a very effective portrayal of history? Why or why not?.
In 1841 New York State-born free African American man name Solomon Northup travelled with two musicians to Washington, D.C. in the thought of making some extra money to support his family, kidnapped without his knowledge for these men own greed and interest sold him into slavery. Once was living as a free man with a bright future and a beautiful family in one night his whole world crashing around him before when he woke chained like an animal, something that he would had never thought and even dreamt of was the reality of his life from that moment on for twelve years. He worked on several plantations in the state of Louisiana for twelve years before his release. Northup's memoir, autobiography in which he explained so clearly his solitude, the torture he went through physically and psychologically, the humiliation, cruelties and the extreme deprivations he went through everyday for twelve years of his life and as well as for other slaves who were living in these plantations. Through unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggled not only to stay alive, but to also retain his dignity. According to Mr. McQueen recreation in the film, he textured and swept, scenes of slavery's extreme privations and cruelties. The depth of his great imagination helped us visualized the daily life of a slaves and it worked. He rhythm and routine, sun up to sun down, along with the unsettling intimacies it produced among the owners and the owned." I believe that Northrup's "Twelve Years a Slave" is the most accurate picture of slavery in the U.
