Representation Of Chapter 10, Race And Ethnicity - 1846 Words

One movie representation of Chapter 10, Race and Ethnicity, is seen in Lee Daniel’s The Butler. The Butler was released to the public on August 16, 2013. Though the character storyline is inaccurate, the movie is based off of Eugene Allen and his experience working in the White House from the Truman era to the Reagan era. Cecil Gaines, who is the representation of Allen in the movie, narrates the story. Cecil consistently uses the term us, rather than a pronoun, implying that he is speaking for all African Americans going through this time. The movie shows the encounters between the white and black population as well as several different internal conflicts going on within the African American community during the Civil Rights movement. The first scene of the movie shows two young African Americans dead hanging from a tree, and a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. appears saying, â€Å"darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.† This is foreshadowing the implication that fighting violence with violence is not going to provide relief from discrimination. The movie starts with Cecil Gains as a young boy, living with his mother and father on a plantation farm. The way that slaves living on the plantation viewed the white community was best described from a statement Cecil’s father made: â€Å"its his world, we’re just living in it.† The plantation scene shows the two personalities of plantation owners by providing two characters, an elderly mother and her son, withShow MoreRelatedYou Can t Write An Honest Novel About Race1492 Words   |  6 PagesChimamanda Adichie writes in her 2013 novel Americanah: â€Å"You can’t write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it’ll be too obvious† (335). 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