The Book of Negroes by Lawerence Hill started as a story of the capture of a West African girl and her journey to become a slave. Her traumatizing experience was written with a desperate tone that was achieved through the use of literary devices such as metaphors and alliteration. Emphasis was put on the conflict between Aminata and society which helped to develop her as a hopeful character. "We walked for many suns‚ growing slowly in members‚ lumbering forward until we were an entire town. Each
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The Book of Negroes Book review Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry‚ Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and then in 2007 his latest and most famous award winning novel The Book of Negroes. The amazing description of the whole story causes one to see the desolate conditions of the slave boats and feel the pain of every person brought into slavery
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Book Reflection : The Book Of Negroes It ’s 1802 and Aminata Diallo‚ now an old woman‚ sits down to write her life story at the request of the Abolitionists in London. Abducted from her village in West Africa at the age of eleven and marched in a coffle (a string of slaves) for three months before reaching the coast‚ Aminata survives the voyage to America and ends up sold to an indigo plantation owner in South Carolina. She describes herself as lucky‚ because compared to the tragic circumstances
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01 Thursday‚ November 6th‚ 2014 Loss of Identity Exemplified in The Book of Negroes One cannot forget the cruelty that African slaves endured‚ reoccurring abuse in ways that brought them misery until death. Lawrence Hill ’s‚ The Book of Negroes demonstrates the damaging effects of African slaves; physically‚ mentally and socially. These three elements of destruction can take all the willpower out of a well built character‚ which is proven through the protagonist‚ Aminata Diallo. This novel ultimately
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The Book of Negroes -- Synopsis The Book of Negroes is the first novel to examine the story of African peoples who‚ after enslavement in the United States and escape to Canada‚ returned to Africa in the eighteenth century. Aminata Diallo begins the story of her tumultuous life with the words: “I seem to have trouble dying. By all rights‚ I should not have lived this long.” Aminata’s story spans six decades and three continents. Against the backdrop of British slavery and liberation in the U.S
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Lawrence Hill’s novel The Book of Negroes is a gripping tail of a young African girl named Aminata‚ in her life as she is abducted at a young age and forced into the slave trade. This is not a challenging read as it does not have a high level of vocabulary so it is readable by almost all ages. The story progresses as Aminata grows and matures physically and mentally‚ through horrendous conditions and mistreatment. The journey is full of twists and turns‚ and you can’t help but root for the determined
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Summary of the Novel As an old woman‚ Aminata Diallo is brought to London‚ England‚ in 1802‚ by abolitionists who are petitioning to end the slave trade. As she awaits an audience with King George‚ she recounts her remarkable life on paper‚ beginning with her life in Bayo‚ in western Africa‚ prior to being abducted from her family at age 11‚ seeing the death of her mother and father‚ and being marched in a coffle of captives to the coast along with others from her village. Chekura‚ a boy of similar
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Laurence Hill’s novel‚ The Book of Negroes‚ uses first-person narrator to depict the whole life of Aminata Diallo‚ beginning with Bayo‚ a small village in West Africa‚ abducting from her family at eleven years old. She witnessed the death of her parents with her own eyes when she was stolen. She was then sent to America and began her slave life. She went through a lot: she lost her children and was informed that her husband was dead. At last she gained freedom again and became an abolitionist against
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Book 3 of The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill has been a devastating section to read. Despite of various hardships that Aminata faced throughout book 1 and 2‚ she still managed to outcome them. However‚ in this section there had been breath taking events that had truly diminished Aminata’s hopes and dreams. The kidnapping of Aminata’s daughter‚ May‚ and the death of Chekura had severely broken Aminata’s will to live. No matter how hard life got for her‚ she never mentioned about wanting to kill
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Significant Passages Book One Chapter 1: "And now I am old" I have escaped violent endings even as they have surrounded me. But I never had the privilege of holding onto my children‚ living with them‚ raising them the way my own parents raised me for ten or eleven years‚ until all of our lives were torn asunder. 68 • The abolitionists say they have brought me to England to help them change the course of history. Well. We shall see about that. But if I have lived this long‚ it must be for
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