Analysis of Kunta Kinte in Roots
Analysis of Kunta Kinte in "Roots"
In Africa, where people can live in peace. Tribes live freely in the vast country, doing what they please, living like human beings. They have families, friends, religion, and a culture, like what we have now. That was what it was like for Kunta Kinte from the movie "Roots", a young African male, that was kidnapped from his home. They put him in chains, and shipped him over to America with about 1000 of his own people. His freedom was destroyed the second they forced him on the evil boat. He was no longer a free human being, but a tool used by other humans. When he got off, he was seperated from his girl friend, Fanta, and auctioned to a bunch of rich men. He was 1000 maybe, 2000 miles away from home, but he didn't know, how could he? In America they called all colored people "niggers" and turned them into slaves for their own personal work. He was lost, confused, and driven with fear, so he resisted and thought of every white man to be his enemy.
Soon he meets Fiddler, a African- American, that was born a slave, Kunta knew that there was other people like him in the country, and considered him a friend. Soon, his new "master" put Fiddle in charge of Kunta for 6 months until his birthday to become a the perfect slave. Fiddler was not too kind to Kunta at first, because he did not really want the responsibility, as u can take it from the tone of his voice and his criticizing remarks. Fiddler did not have a very good life, but it was easier for him than the other slaves in the area. He had privileges which was liquor for medicine, dining at the "big house" and sleeping on a pinewood floor. He would loose these privileges if he did not succeed in training Kunta. But soon becomes a friend, and a mentor-like figure to Kunta. But Kunta wanted nothing more than to just escaped and go back to his home, he said it himself, he wanted to be free. At the end he tried to run but finds himself lost, and tired and gets recaptured. Fiddler represents the need for survival in a world like that, Kunta Kinte represents the love for freedom, which was taken away from him before his very...