Blood Diamond

This paper will analyze Maddy Bowen (played by Jennifer Connelly) in the film: Blood Diamond (2006) by director Edward Zwick. Maddy Bowen, an American journalist went to Africa to make a change but it was Africa who changed her. Danny Archer, (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. While in jail for smuggling conflict diamonds, Archer overheard a wounded commander telling the prisoners of a large rare pink coloured diamond that Solomon Vandy (played by Djimon Hounsou) found. Bowen, who has strong morals decides to help Solomon find his kidnapped son (Dia Vandy) if Archer will give her the necessary information needed to help stop the sale of blood diamonds, with her persistence she gets her story. Because of her strong values she decides to spend her life helping people she has not even met before. Throughout this paper I will discuss why Maddy Bowen made the biggest impact on me, because like me, she went to Africa to make a difference, she has a strong moral conscience, is very persistence and respects a promise. Maddy Bowen, a humanitarian, is very persistence in finding out the truth about the diamond market. She wants to stop the flow of blood diamonds out of Africa, which will cut off the funds for the Civil War thus ending a mass revolution. By persistently trying to get Archer, a conflict diamond trader to tell her the information she needs, he in the end goes to her with his story if, she will in return help him find Solomon’s family and get them into kono. Archer gives Maddy the necessary facts that she wants, so Maddy gives him the access to use the press convey to travel to Kono in order to find the diamond. She has a strong dedication to show the truth, this dedication pursues her to publish a magazine piece exposing the trade in blood diamonds. Solomon goes undercover to sell the diamond, gets his family back and his story told. The movie ends with Solomon describing his experiences at a