Alex Haley's Roots Analysis

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The whole story of Roots is the oral history of Alex Haley's family, he learned as child. Lawrence Fishburne played this man who narrating this story to the audience as it begins. It spoken of that at the time of Kunte Kinte, they had to deal with slavery in his homeland. Then We briefly see Kunte Kinte as a captive. This scene is time perfectly with talk of why this man was born into this world. Which is more or less, something someone would wonder why when in this position. Next, We treated to the birth of Kunte Kinte. His father shortly after does the whole naming ceremony that I mention is still done. We have time jump to him as grown man who in the next moment undergoes his warrior training. Which consists of making him into some kind

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