“‘I have a dream that one day the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood’” Martin Luther King Jr. 12.5 million African’s were captured and sent to America, only 10.7 million survived the trip. Half of those who were captured fought for their freedom and weren’t successful. At the age of eleven she was captured, sold into slavery, abused, raped and forced to grow up too fast. Through the eyes of Aminata Diallo, Lawrence Hill creates The Book of Negroes, revealing the intense life of an African slave. Hill progressively and strategically applies imagery to initiate an emotional response in the reader, guiding them to connect with the intense situations of the novel. Early in the
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After making way back home from a neighboring village, Aminata, her mother and a servant are stopped by European slave traders. Forced to fight for their life Aminta witnesses the death of both her parents, “Mama dropped. I saw her blood in the moonlight, angry and dark and spilling fast” (26 Hill). The strong use of personification and contrasting word choice at such a pivotal moment was used in enough detail to make the reader feel as if they are right there watching. By using connotation and denotation in a condensed quote it begins to draw attention to the harsh nature that has surrounded such a dark part of history and makes the reader realize that even in the dark of night, abuse and violence cannot be unavoidable. As the book begins to progress, Aminata is constantly traveling to different places of the world but, it is when she truly realizes that she will always be subject to dehumanization. While living in Manhattan, after running away from her second owner, Aminata and her husband are about to become “free blacks” but are not successful. Aminata was stopped by her first owner whom had claimed that she had run away from her, it is
After making way back home from a neighboring village, Aminata, her mother and a servant are stopped by European slave traders. Forced to fight for their life Aminta witnesses the death of both her parents, “Mama dropped. I saw her blood in the moonlight, angry and dark and spilling fast” (26 Hill). The strong use of personification and contrasting word choice at such a pivotal moment was used in enough detail to make the reader feel as if they are right there watching. By using connotation and denotation in a condensed quote it begins to draw attention to the harsh nature that has surrounded such a dark part of history and makes the reader realize that even in the dark of night, abuse and violence cannot be unavoidable. As the book begins to progress, Aminata is constantly traveling to different places of the world but, it is when she truly realizes that she will always be subject to dehumanization. While living in Manhattan, after running away from her second owner, Aminata and her husband are about to become “free blacks” but are not successful. Aminata was stopped by her first owner whom had claimed that she had run away from her, it is