Alex Haley's Roots Movie Analysis

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The movie "Roots" by Alex Haley is a powerful and inspiring movie. The movie helped a lot of people understand about the history of how the color of their skin will determine what life style the person will have. The movie showed how black people (slaves) had to struggle to live by the demands of white people (Masters), how white people were harmful to black people, and how black people never stop believing they will have freedom some day. The criteria of this essay are just used to inform the readers about what black people had to endure during slavery. Also, showed how whites treated black people. The movie also showed how black people had to deal with how white people treated them. The black people did not have an easy life like some

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