The Butler Analysis

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The Butler Analysis

The 2013 fictional film, The Butler, focuses on racial issues in America. The story begins in the 1920’s in Georgia. At the time, Cecil Gaines and his family are all slaves. Cecil Gaines and his father were in the field picking cotton. The master told Cecil Gaines’s mother to come with him to the shed and raped her. Young Cecil Gaines asked his father why he didn’t say anything. His father responded “This is the white man’s world, we’re just living in it.” Then his father told him to get back to work. Soon after, the master comes out of the shed and Cecil Gaines’s father says “hey.” The master takes out his gun and shoots him in the head. This part of the film highlighted the fear that was used to control slaves during this time.

After a few years, Cecil Gaines left the plantation. At first, Cecil Gaines could not find food, work, or a place to sleep until he broke into a shop, got caught, and asked the man for a job. The man said “yes.” Shortly after, Cecil Gaines was offered another position at the White House as a butler. He took the position and joined a t...

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