Alex Haley's Roots Movie Analysis

The movie "Roots" by Alex Haley is a powerful and inspiring movie. The movie helped a lot of people understand about the history of how the color of their skin will determine what life style the person will have. The movie showed how black people (slaves) had to struggle to live by the demands of white people (Masters), how white people were harmful to black people, and how black people never stop believing they will have freedom some day.
The criteria of this essay are just used to inform the readers about what black people had to endure during slavery. Also, showed how whites treated black people. The movie also showed how black people had to deal with how white people treated them.
The black people did not have an easy life like some

white people. Black people either had to work the fields by picking cotton or cleaning and cooking the main house until the white people told them to stop. Black people were beaten by white people if they did not follow the demands of their master. Some families were separated and sold for money, but some families were not separated or sold. Black women were raped by their master, and some had children by their master. Black women were also used as a breeder for field workers. Some black people were killed by white people.
The white people were very rude and harmful to black people. They judge black people by their appearance. White people used to do bad things to black people like hitting, spitting, etc. They made black people do all of their hard work for them. Some white people made black women have their babies. Sometimes they made black families watch them as they beat one of their family members. They also used to damage black people’s body by using a weep to beat them with. A lot of black people had scars on their back.
After of the things whites people did to black people, they never stop believing. The mother of all the children kept the faith in God and her family. They made escape plans to keep their beliefs and sprits up. Black people also followed the North Star when they tried to escape. Black people never forgot their original roots, and kept beliving in their roots and that kept them motivated to get their freedom.
No one ever deserves to be treated less than someone else. Black people finally got their freedom, but white people finally understood what black people went through. Even though some white people are never going to change, all the things that black people had to go through only made them stronger and wiser.