Sandakan Death Marches

controversial decisions throughout the movie, but in the end her decision was justified by the family reuniting. It seems that all along Agnes knew they would be back together, but was it really worth taking the chance? With the effective use of characterization, the audience was able to sympathize and despise Agnes’s decisions. The third literary device effectively use in Three Came Home is the setting. In 1942, Sandakan was taken over by the Japanese after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Agnes was sent to live in a concentration camp with her son and many other women and children. In the camp we were able to witness that sickness and hunger the women and children faced. On the other side of the camp were the men. They were forced to do labor work by the Japanese soldiers. After spending months there Agnes and George were put on a boat and sent to another camp. Colonel Suga strictly ran this camp. George became severely sick and the soldiers attacked Agnes. At one point in the movie, the men tried to climb the fence to the women section and were shot to death. To see her husband, Agnes was force to climb under the barbwire fence at night. Insects were so bad that canopies were placed over their make shift beds. Women and children were forced to live in close quarters. After five years the family was once reunited again. With an effective setting the audience was able to understand the harshness during World War II. The literary element that was most…

The japanese soldiers captured many soldiers and marched them to a death camp but many of the soldiers were either killed or died of dehydration or starvation. This greatly affected Nathan because he believes that he should have died there with his brothers in arms, and he feels like he owes them everything so he puts that into his work to “save” the people of the congo. In the novel the price family not including nathan want to stay in Bethlehem, Georgia, but Nathans’ stubbornness started a…

purpose of her piece on the surface is exposed and motive us as a nation to change voting laws so that more individual are able to vote. Underlying though her purpose is to smear republicans and sway the nation to put more democrats in office. The article was published on CNN which is a nationally read news site, meaning the audience of its pieces encompasses the entire nation. She does a fairly good job using an event and a person that is relatable to her entire audience to connect the audience…

000 (Mark Rathbone). That is why Those who organized the march included chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) John Lewis and Hosea William, an assistant to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Voting rights campaign led by the SNCC had targeted Selma because it had one of the lowest ratios of African-American voters to white voters. The bridge where history was written, where lives were taken because they wanted the right to vote the Bloody Sunday The Edmund Pettus Bridge. …

Throughout American history, African-Americans have constantly struggled with the issues of racism and discrimination. Since slavery hundreds of years ago, African Americans have always been treated as inferior by white men. Even today, racism continues to be a big problem in American society. Selma, a film directed by Ava DuVernay, retells the events surrounding the march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King Jr., African-Americans along with civil rights activists of…

and stepped aside, allowing the march to continue. However, five hundred yards later state troopers formed a double line across the road. Major Cloud told them that they could not continue past them. With Major Cloud's agreement, King led two thousand blacks and whites in song. The eight rows of marchers held hands and swayed as they sang "We Shall Overcome." After ten minutes, King and Cloud spoke, then the troopers stepped aside and the marchers turned around. The Federal Government…

places. Martin sought for equality and wouldn’t stop until it happened. Unfortunately, whites didn’t like his effort for changed, so they threatened and arrested him. He was arrested about 30 times in his life. Martin kept on peacefully protesting to draw attention to the injustice. Martin made powerful speeches, marches, and boycotts. In 1964, segregation and racism was banned in the USA. On April 4th, 1968, in a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, while giving a speech, he was shot by James Earl Ray.…

In a world that keeps moving the way it is history will only repeat itself. In David Margolick amazing novel, Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock he recounts the events of what happened on September 4, 1957. What happened fifty-eight years ago between Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan is still going on today with police brutality, protest, and discrimination. We can only improve race relations if we as people realize we all have the same equal opportunities. Fifty-eight years ago on…

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” (brainyquote.com) This man definitely had a dream, and our job is to live out that dream. He didn’t express this with violence, but with words and speeches. He didn’t want to start a riot, but to have friendship, peace, and equal rights for all people. He led marches, which thousands of people followed and protested with…

Selma is an Oscar nominated movie for Best Picture; the first film directed by a black female director (Ava Du Vernay) in history. The movie is based on the year of 1965 during the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches, it shows the last final stages of the Civil Rights Movement. The sequence chosen for this analysis is the sequence where Dr. King (David Oyelowo) arrives to Selma. At his arrival to the “Black Belt” region of central Alabama Dr. King and his colleges direct themselves to the…