Compare And Contrast The Book Kindred And Camp 14

Slavery. Back in the days, there was nothing that can be compared to its cruelty. But over 100 years after the slavery ended, a practice of extreme inhumane act appeared. It’s a prison camp from North Korea and named Camp 14. The methods that was used against slaves and prisoners are not all the same but both have the same goal. The comparing and contrasting will be done upon a book called Kindred and a video of an escapee from the Camp 14. The book Kindred is about slavery. It said a lot about the circumstances of what it was like to be a slave in the antebellum South. Also, the video compared to is about a man named Shin, a North Korean prisoner of Camp 14, who ran away to get his own freedom to China. Both the book and video explained stuff such as living conditions, family matters, education and rights and punishments. According to the …show more content…
The slaves were not allowed to be educated by the slaves owners. Educated slaves meant trouble back in the antebellum South because being educated meant freedom for them.There were punishments if slaves were to learn. In the book Kindred, Dana, an educated slave, tried to teach other slaves and was beaten because the owner did not like the fact that others slaves will get the ideas of escaping. But in the contrast, Camp 14 had schools. The prisoners were allowed to be educated. But the education in the camp was only to brainwash the prisoners. They are taught to think that they are meant to work for the camp. In the video, Shin said that during all his 23 years in the camp, he thought that every prisoner was supposed to and meant to live the way he lived. He said that he didn’t know a thing about the outside world. He also stated that he didn’t even know what love was. According to Shin’s statement, it just simply meant that when prisoners are in the camp, they only know and understand what they were told and what they were allowed to