Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: What Is Meaned?

Throughout history America remembered slavery in a crucial unsettling way. Slaves worked long strenuous hours, get whipped to death, starved, and become broken spirits. All these factors describe the life of a slave. "To be a slave meant to be black and to be black meant to be a slave". Slavery at its very core was inhumane and traumatizing for every African American facing it, However today in our history textbooks slavery will be a chapter that many students come across. But what about in the media? well in today 's media movies about slavery are being reenacted and altered on the big screen. Two big box office hits come to many minds of Americans today, those films are Django Unchained and 12 years a slave. Both of these films provide

After finding them, Django wants to find his wife, Broomhilda who along with him were sold separately by his former owner for trying to escape. Schultz offers to help him if he chooses to stay with him and be his partner. Eventually they learn that she was sold to a plantation in Mississippi. Knowing they can 't just go in and say they want her, they come up with a plan so that the owner will welcome them into his home and they can find a way. The story of Django captured the hearts of many Americans and become a popular hit on the big screen. Except it was fictional, back then the chances of a white man helping a black slave to find their loved ones is highly unlikely, as well as training a black man to be a bounty

Django unchained and 12 years a slave would be two examples of a tragic beginning and happy ending. 12 years a slave was based on a true story about a free black man from the south named Solomon Northup. Solomon was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-civil war era. Solomon was the son of an emancipated slave, Northup was born free. He lived, worked, and married in upstate New York, where his family resided. He was a multifaceted laborer and also an accomplished violin player. In 1841 two con men offered him lucrative work playing fiddle in a circus, so he traveled with them to Washington, D.C., where he was drugged, kidnapped, and subsequently sold as a slave into the Red River region of Louisiana. For the next twelve years he survived as the human property of several different slave masters, with the bulk of his bondage and lived under the cruel ownership of a southern planter named Edwin Epps. In January 1853, Northup was finally freed by Northern friends who came to his rescue. He returned home to his family in New York a free