Symbolism In Blood Diamond

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In the world there are people who would do anything to be with their family. In the movie Blood Diamond, as I watch, I saw how kids in Africa get kidnapped or taken to ruff spots and bad people teach them how to be like them, how a smuggler helps a man out of circumstances to get what he wants and them changes his point of view towards the person and, how the diamonds in Africa represents freedom.
Kids in Africa are been taken from their family by ruffs. The ruffs are first, telling the people they have captured like man and child’s if they want long or short for their arms because basically, the ruffs are going to cut down their arms in order from them not to vote like the man said” if you don’t have no hands you can vote”. The people that weren’t cut or kill by the ruffs had to learn the way of the ruff. Ruffs said that what makes a man strong is the gun that a child or man would hold in his arms. The gun was a symbol of power, the gun meant that if you point it at someone, that they may do as you wish or get killed by it. Other groups of people who were also taken in by the ruffs were forced to help
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Possessing this rare diamond in Africa or anywhere could get you anything you want. I believe that having people taken away from each other by bad people to learn from their belief and practicing like killing innocent people and how a gun is a symbol of power and, that it can control anything, it is wrong because people shouldn’t be slaving or killing others like if they were nothing in life. In other country’s people buy diamonds at any amount not knowing what it cost to get, or how the people that found it cost them. People are dying from a precious peace of diamond because they want power and money. Mostly the only thing that should be more important should be family because without family there is no life, there is no one you can share your stories and dreams with but family. The movie blood diamond is a great

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