Chiwetel Ejiofor Character Analysis

Decent Essays
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Solomon Northup) this character is a real live person, it’s his story of what he saw and did.
Steve McQueen needs to use this character because it was based off in Solomon’s plot and real live events he had been through and experienced. It’s like giving a voice to one’s story who was a survivor in slavery and his actions towards it. Solomon is very strong spirited, a believer, and a strong person to go through 12 years of slavery. McQueen used Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon because he knows that this actor would perform very well for this film.
Michael Fassbender (Epps Edwin) this is one of the character Solomon mentioned in his book. He is a real live person at the time and a master to the slaves he bought.
Epps Edwin was portrayed

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    You should always make the choice that feels right to you. When you make decisions you should trust your instincts. Eli the main character from, The Compound, written by S.A. Bodeen, did this well. He knew his dad was trying to hide something from him. When he started finding clues in his dad´s office, he started to realize his dad has been keeping secrets from his own family for the last six years while they were in the compound.…

    • 501 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Kendell Beckwith, O.J. Howard, Justin Evans, and Chris Godwin are the Buccaneers rookies and after playing in only one game they have not really had much of a chance to show case their abilities. However, Kendell Beckwith and O.J. Howard played fairly well last week. Beckwith saw his first regular season action vs the Bears, he wasn't outstanding, but he did show off what he is capable in the time he was on the field. Beckwith played in the entire game as middle linebacker, strong side linebacker and proved he can play both positions more than efficiently.…

    • 304 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Big Muddy It is the longest river in all of North America and the fourth longest in the World. It runs through a total of 31 different states and 2 Canadian provinces. The river has served as a main route of transportation and trade throughout the history of the U.S. as well as a border and a communication route. I’ve been to the Mississippi in Minnesota and Missouri and it is a big, muddy, slow moving river with about as much history as a river can have. Now in the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is one of the greatest pieces of text in all of American literature, ever!…

    • 365 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Bob Ewell and his family of eight children live behind Maycomb's dump. Ewell uses his welfare money to buy alcohol while his children go hungry. He can be best described as a drunken, lazy, mostly unemployed member of Maycomb's poorest family. With his wrongful accusation that Tom Robinson raped his daughter, Ewell represents the narrow minded South which includes ignorance, scarcity, and racial…

    • 64 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Solomon Northup was a free black man who lived in the northern United States in the 1800s, he was working as a violinist, and was kidnapped in 1841, at age 33. Two men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him a two week job as a musician if he will travel to Washington, D.C., with them. Once there, they drug Northup and delivered him to a slave pen owned by James Burch. Northup is sold into slavery in the south, he is shipped to New Orleans along with other who have been captured. A slave trader named Freeman gives Northup the identity of Platt.…

    • 202 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson,” illustrates the unequal distribution of wealth in America which causes the protagonist, Sylvia, to lose her innocence and reevaluate the social class spectrum she lives in. Miss Moore, who is the only person with a college degree in the area, wants to teach Sylvia and the other children a life-changing lesson in an outing to a toy store. From the group of children, Sylvia shows she is a naïve and stubborn child who does not value anyone’s opinion. However, she becomes a different character who changes perspective on the economic world.…

    • 865 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    On an asphalt baseball field in Brooklyn, two teams from local Yeshivah schools meet. At first, it just seems like a baseball game between two Jewish high school teams. But the game quickly turns into a holy war when the caftan and ear lock wearing Hasidic team begins to taunt and bully the less conservative “hell-bound sinners” on the other team. Hate boils as Danny Saunders, the leader of the Hasidic team, purposely hits a pitch right back at the pitcher, crushing his glasses and landing him in the hospital for a week. This is how Chaim Potok 's book The Chosen begins.…

    • 2428 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    After reading the book and watching the movie 12 Years a Slave there are many differences that have become apparent between the two also with a lot of similarities. some of these differences minor and others major. Although both the book and movie were in pursuit of the same message the end point was reached in different ways. for instance in the book some people in general were perceived to be much nicer than they were shown to be in the movie. Solomon Northup and Steve McQueen, the director of the movie,…

    • 755 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Thomas Brodie-Sangster is an English actor going from 2002 to present. Sangster has been in many productions throughout the years, including Love Actually and Game of Thrones, to name a few. Sangster got introduced to the world of acting through his parents Mark Sangster and Tasha Bertram, who are both actors and musicians. Though he phased in and out of school, he had a basic education as well as acting classes. His best roles have been Jojeen Reed in Game of Thrones and voicing Ferb Fletcher in Phineas and Ferb.…

    • 90 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Beautiful Struggle is about the personal experience of Ta-Nehisi Coates and his brother Bill growing up in West Baltimore. The book takes place in 1980s Baltimore during the Crack Epidemic and explores issues of survival, morals and family. The book is a coming of age story that looks at multiple perspectives. Ta-Nehisi is a boy who isn’t cool, doesn’t understand the rules of the street, and generally doesn’t apply himself in school. His brother Bill on the other hand, is known for being cool, charismatic, and street smart.…

    • 1316 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    However, Captain Whitfield bought Manjiro back to America with him and he got married to Albertina they had to switch church twice so Manjiro could fit in the other church didn’t want him there because he was different. Manjiro had a horse which he name Plum Duff he would talk to his horse in Japanese, he also met Terry his new friend. Terry was a good friend from the beginning he would correct Manjiro when he says an English word wrong. Manjiro and Terry came up with a shorter name for his horse Duffy. He went to school and made friends good and bad because there was a boy by the name of Tom who was bullying him, and he met Job who was really nice to him.…

    • 176 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The life of Mr. Ezzard Who is Mr. Ezzard ? I believe he is a nice man who enjoys writing and traveling far and wide. He himself has been to many places and wrote a lot, especially in his travel journals. He has done enough to fill a boring life a thousand times over, and I have recently sat down with him to learn more about him.…

    • 530 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    E. T Character Analysis

    • 348 Words
    • 2 Pages

    As I began watching the movie, E.T. I did not really know what to expect. The only thing I knew about it was that it was a supposed classic. Overall the film felt a little slow overall, however it carried a very endearing charm through its characters and the story it portrayed; which had me really enjoying it. The movie progressed at a relatively fast, but made no attempt to leave out detail, filling the movie with memorable moments, further supported by a light and energetic soundtrack that helped keep you interested in what happens next. Of the characters in the story of E.T the most memorable, and endearing, would have to be the children, most notable Elliott played by Henry Thomas.…

    • 348 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    EA 3.2 Literary Analysis: character analysis Nwoye Transforms Growing up with the cultures and places changing constantly it is difficult not to be influenced. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe a boy name Nwoye was the one being influenced and changed due to the cultural collisions in Nigeria at this time. More specifically he was influenced by family,loss, and religion in which shaped who he was as a man and a individual finding his path. In this essay using textual evidence It will be highlighting how the new indigenous people had a major influence on Nwoye and why he decided to convert to a different religion. One major way Nwoye was influenced was by his family.…

    • 1472 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Tsukuru Character Analysis

    • 1573 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Tsukuru Tazaki is a builder. His name, meaning “to make” and his profession as an engineer is indicative of that. Though Tsukuru’s name is in absolute correlation with himself, he experiences an overwhelming discontent associated with his name, a discontent attributed to the fact his name is not a color. Tsukuru believes he is colorless, empty, meaningless, while his cohort of high school friends, each graced with a name of color, depict genuine meaning and purpose for existence. When said cohort unexpectedly abandons Tsukuru, Tsukuru is sent into a vortex of despair bordering lethality.…

    • 1573 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays