How are the historical components of oppression relevant in today's society and how does it continue to influence literature of any specific time period? Historical components of oppression are relevant because the serve as a reminder of what people went through for today to be as it is. We are suppose to learn from our ancestors mistakes but yet we have so many problems today, maybe even more. Time periods play a great role in literature because people tend to document what happened during that time. History has a way of repeating which is why I think we still are worrying about problems that our ancestors did. Literature tends to change with the time periods. As time went along literature has gotten more complex and can be shown
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When we first came to America we oppressed Indians by making them slaves and stealing their land and pushing them further and further west. MAny of the indians died just from people relocating them to a different area. So many indians died on the trail that they called it the trail of tears because of all the sorrow and despair that came from leaving their home land. To us there were not equal and our ancestors made sure they knew that. This has a lasting effect today because there isn't as many people who are part indian as many as there could have been. The situation might have been able to turn out different but it probably wouldn't of because they were considered lesser compared to us.
There is a movie that came out a while ago while ago that I believe probably happened often when slavery was more known. The movie is called 9 years a slave and was made by John Ridley. This film relates to a situation that had happened quite often. In the film it goes through the life of a man who was kidnapped and forced to do labor work for 9 years. He was taken from everything he had known. This is actually is kind of common, many people are kidnapped everyday and they're forced to leave behind everything they know. This happens all the time from around the world. They are sold to the highest
When we first came to America we oppressed Indians by making them slaves and stealing their land and pushing them further and further west. MAny of the indians died just from people relocating them to a different area. So many indians died on the trail that they called it the trail of tears because of all the sorrow and despair that came from leaving their home land. To us there were not equal and our ancestors made sure they knew that. This has a lasting effect today because there isn't as many people who are part indian as many as there could have been. The situation might have been able to turn out different but it probably wouldn't of because they were considered lesser compared to us.
There is a movie that came out a while ago while ago that I believe probably happened often when slavery was more known. The movie is called 9 years a slave and was made by John Ridley. This film relates to a situation that had happened quite often. In the film it goes through the life of a man who was kidnapped and forced to do labor work for 9 years. He was taken from everything he had known. This is actually is kind of common, many people are kidnapped everyday and they're forced to leave behind everything they know. This happens all the time from around the world. They are sold to the highest