King Solomons Mines Analysis

The Two Princes of Calabar allows readers to perceive the brutal perspectives of the African slaves during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Randy Sparks brings the remarkable account of the two princes to life, and vividly recreates their expeditions into a stronger outlook regarding their experiences and traumas. I believe Sparks desires readers to learn about the brutality of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the freedom associated with English Methodism.

In Abina and the Important Men, lies a portrayal of daily life and operations of the area of Asante and its relations with British jurisdiction, on the Gold Coast of West Africa in 1876. Specifically, it is a story about a girl from Asante named Asina who is sold into slavery at a very young age and her journey to achieve justice. While Abina’s story was not well documented and well known, it’s brief mention in archived stories arose attention for the powerless and the silenced. Through Abina’s narrative and her fight for justice, and the contextual history of African and British relations, the depiction of “important men” their roles and how they impact her life and people like her are displayed.

Ever since the induction of slavery, black people have undergone terrible circumstances. Not until over four hundred years after the induction of slavery were blacks treated equally. The burden of oppression gave blacks a terrible life; upward mobility was virtually impossible and the few that were successful were looked at with suspicion and envy by the rest of the community. With nothing to work for, suicide, escape and abandonment were common in black communities. However, stemming from the plight of the Igbos hundreds of years ago who “flew all the way back to Africa,” committing suicide, escaping from white rule and abandoning their families, oppressed blacks regarded suicide, escape and abandonment as a way to “fly away” from the

One implication as a result of the biggest known migration of human beings in history is that there is little documentation of individuals from the African Slave Trade. As such a familiar occurrence in history, there is little to be known about the individual experiences of captives during this horrific time. Randy Sparks, author of The Two Princes of Calabar, ends the silence as he provides the reader with a glimpse into an eighteenth century odyssey, and first hand account to the trading communities along the coast of West Africa. This trade not only transported people, but the exchange of ideas is also present across and around the Atlantic. The novel tells the story of two young men from Nigeria who are from an elite slave trading family. These men were captured by Europeans and sold into slavery until they were ultimately released back to their homeland. The Two Princes of Calabar offers insight into the complexities that existed in the transracial Atlantic world of the eighteenth century through the themes of privilege, gender bias, and the mistreatment of the enslaved.

If it were not for the stories past down from generation to generation or the documentations in historical books, the history of the twelve million African slaves that traveled the “Middle Passage” in miserable conditions would not exist. Olaudah Equiano contributes to this horrid history with The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Through this narrative, the appalling personal experience of each slave is depicted. He accomplishes his rhetorical purpose of informing the world of the slave experience in this narrative. His use of unique style and rhetorical devices in this conveying narrative portray his imperative rhetorical purpose.

Northup sets out to convince readers that his account of slavery is the truth. The detailed accounts that Solomon took to recreate his slave experience proves to be effective. Solomons story takes the aspect of being a free man, to enslavement in the South. Northup uses great parallelism in his narrative, often

Personalities are not predetermined, but developed over time based on social commodities like family situations or lifestyles. Traumatic or memorable moments, like barbarity, also shape individuals’ character. In Song of Solomon, through Macon’s use of violence and the effect of brutality on Milkman, Toni Morrison reveals how cruelty and actions define roles in society and how it affects the characteristics of individuals.

Perseverance and power of the human spirit is another theme that shows up when you are reading this book. Solomon endured so much that he did not want to. At one point in the book, he was forced to whip a fellow slave in front of others. He says in the book, 2“Ten years I toiled for that

Flight in Song of Solomon, Native Son, A Worn Path, Sad Sweet Story of Sugar Lips Shinehot, and Portable Promised, and Land First Eagle Story

Kingsolver begins the novel with intense, vivid imagery, allowing the reader to fully engulfed in the environment, questioning where such a place exists. Kingsolver’s use of magical realism intertwines reality with fiction as she constructs the setting of the wild Congo. “Every space is filled with life: delicate, poisonous frogs war painted like skeletons, clutched in copulation, secreting their precious eggs onto dripping leaves” (1). Rich literature is woven into every sentence, loaded with foreshadowing and symbolism that the reader can only truly comprehend when the novel is over. The idiosyncratic character of the first opening pages continued to draw the reader back. Every time the opening is read again it had a different meaning depending on where the reader is in the book, and what connections have been are made.

Guitar Bains has been Milkman's best friend since they were children. The two share many memories and through them developed a strong bond. As Guitar and

Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a tale of an African prince and victorious general, Oroonoko, who loses his heart to the lovely Imoinda. First published in the year 1688 when African slavery through the barbaric trans-Atlantic slave business became established as an economic, transcontinental system. This tale draws on the popular literary themes of aristocratic romance, social censure and travel narrative. It indicates a few ways in which the British were starting to view cultural and racial differences and their personal contribution to the slave business and colonialism. Behn’s tale, somewhat broadly, is one text that demonstrates the way European literature on the subjects of slavery, colonisation and race evolved in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Bansir, a chariot builder and Kobbi, a musician set to go meet a person named Arkad who happens to be the Richest man in Babylon, to seek advise of how he has come to fame, and of how he has grown up to be so rich. The start to learn was Arkad had started to save his money for the future and how he had to work hard to get so powerful. How Arkad had to go meet someone else in his days to help him become so rich, Algamish who was the wealthy man that he went to go meet. Arkad was a poor man before but he grew up and worked hard. Arkad explained to Bansir and Kobbi how he saved his money and invested it with a shield maker to earn more money. Basically Algamish explained to Arkad that if he keeps saving his money and working hard, he would one

As Europeans discovered other cultures during the Age of Exploration, travelers returned with knowledge of new religious, political, and economic systems. Aphra Behn’s seventeenth-century travel narrative, Oroonoko, describes the life of Oroonoko, an African prince and slave in Surinam, while contrasting the cruelty of the Europeans with the morality of the Africans and natives of Surinam. Thomas More’s sixteenth-century Utopia displays his subtle criticism of English society behind the words of his character Raphael Hythloday, who travels the world and explores the rationality of Utopia. These authors criticize many of the conventions of their time periods through their characters’ explorations into new ideas and territories. In Oroonoko and Utopia, nature and reason lead the natives’ governments and societies instead of the corruption of the wealthy and noble Europeans.

The book takes place in the Umuofia and Mbanta villages around the 1900s. During the 1900s the rise of European Imperialism in Africa becomes very much prevalent between 1881 and 1914.