Braydon Turato-Brooks
Mrs. Fung
ENG 4U1-02
21 September 2017
Title of Your Report
The reality of the world is always changing. Taking different perspectives, living through experiences and imagination all take a toll in how the world is visualized. In the novel The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill studies the ways that reality can be shifted through the persona of Aminata Diallo with experiences of loss along with physical pain and monumental heartbreak. Relation to the real world can be a difficult task, but can be achieved through intricate sequences of events including Aminata’s Story. This is a product of family loss, being beaten and sexually assaulted and loss of individuality
Family loss has affected the ways in which I perceive life. …show more content…
Aminata’s experiences with dehumanization come from acts of slavery. She has her cultural background taken away from her previous stay in Bayo, then with the religious views being squashed by the white men on the slave vessel, finalizing with the motive of losing her ability to her language. She demonstrates her passion towards her individuality “I would be the only woman, and one of the only people in my entire village, to be able to read Qur’an and to write Arabic script” (22). This is representing her passion towards how she understands and speaks, and to show how important language is to her and how she identifies. Racism is known as the lowering of hierarchy to any group or person due to their race. Aminata shows her feelings of loss to Chekura, when she admits “ I screamed as I have never screamed before, I did not recognize myself, I had no clothes, no beauty, no hair and no womanhood” (178). She finds that this may have been her purpose in life, was to be used solely as a slave and to work for other people, without taking into consideration the belief of freedom and the security she once had. She continues to be dehumanized following the ownership of Appleby, who called her a “crazy big mouthed African” (175). This continues to hurt her and imposes many different stereotypes on what she identifies as. When opposed to these situations, there was nothing that can save her but her vision of the future. This has drastically changed the way I look at our societies and the environment around us. Knowing the ways that the past has shaped the future, have taught me how susceptible everyone is to discrimination and dehumanization everyday. This has also shown me that the ways that our governments and business operate economically can be very dangerous as our global societies are all constructed
Mrs. Fung
ENG 4U1-02
21 September 2017
Title of Your Report
The reality of the world is always changing. Taking different perspectives, living through experiences and imagination all take a toll in how the world is visualized. In the novel The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill studies the ways that reality can be shifted through the persona of Aminata Diallo with experiences of loss along with physical pain and monumental heartbreak. Relation to the real world can be a difficult task, but can be achieved through intricate sequences of events including Aminata’s Story. This is a product of family loss, being beaten and sexually assaulted and loss of individuality
Family loss has affected the ways in which I perceive life. …show more content…
Aminata’s experiences with dehumanization come from acts of slavery. She has her cultural background taken away from her previous stay in Bayo, then with the religious views being squashed by the white men on the slave vessel, finalizing with the motive of losing her ability to her language. She demonstrates her passion towards her individuality “I would be the only woman, and one of the only people in my entire village, to be able to read Qur’an and to write Arabic script” (22). This is representing her passion towards how she understands and speaks, and to show how important language is to her and how she identifies. Racism is known as the lowering of hierarchy to any group or person due to their race. Aminata shows her feelings of loss to Chekura, when she admits “ I screamed as I have never screamed before, I did not recognize myself, I had no clothes, no beauty, no hair and no womanhood” (178). She finds that this may have been her purpose in life, was to be used solely as a slave and to work for other people, without taking into consideration the belief of freedom and the security she once had. She continues to be dehumanized following the ownership of Appleby, who called her a “crazy big mouthed African” (175). This continues to hurt her and imposes many different stereotypes on what she identifies as. When opposed to these situations, there was nothing that can save her but her vision of the future. This has drastically changed the way I look at our societies and the environment around us. Knowing the ways that the past has shaped the future, have taught me how susceptible everyone is to discrimination and dehumanization everyday. This has also shown me that the ways that our governments and business operate economically can be very dangerous as our global societies are all constructed