About fairness and justice

Jovanny 2022-03-21 09:01:13

In the last scene, Solomon's eyes were really red when he said that he was sorry. It was his family who supported him to persevere. In these hellish twelve years, he had been awkward, flinched, and desperate, but he had survived.
This is also a story about belated fairness and justice. In the end, after a hellish life, Solomon returned to his family, but he was no longer the boy with a simple and complacent expression.
Whenever I see such movies and books, I think of floating. Yes, I like this book very much. This book also talked about slavery and the Civil War. There are also many places that inspire me, but at the time I felt that some places were unreasonable. For example, the support for slavery, the negative sentiment towards the Civil War, even expressed the slave's own approval of slavery.
I think, no matter what, freedom is the most wonderful thing in this world.

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12 Years a Slave quotes

  • Clemens: If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. Tell no one who you really are and tell no one that you can read and write. Unless you want to be a dead nigger.

  • Robert: I say we fight.

    Solomon Northup: The crew is fairly small. If it were well planned, I believe they could be strong armed.

    Clemens: Three can't stand against a whole crew. The rest here are niggers, born and bred slaves. Niggers ain't got the stomach for a fight, not a damn one.

    Robert: All I know, we get where we travelling we'll wish we'd died trying.

    Clemens: Survival is not about certain death, it is about keeping your head down.

    Solomon Northup: Days ago I was with my family, in my home. Now you tell me all is lost. "Tell no one who I really am" if I want to survive. I don't want to survive, I want to live.