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Characterization - Cecil

Eugene Allen

Is the inspiration to the movie

Butler at the White House - 34 years

Served 8 presidents

Retired as head butler in 1986

- Main character

Beginning:

- 7 years old, cotton field, shot

- House nigger - enter a room let nobody feel you are there

- A humble man

- Refuses to acknowledge that his son joins the freedom riders

End:

- Asks for a raise, salary, equal to the white staffs

- Demonstration, gets arrested

Sit-in

The Black Panthers

Direct action where some people occupy an area for a protest against an existing problem

Example from the movie:

  • The Black Panthers - cafe, the white people area - don't move

- Believed Martin Luther King's non-violent campaign had failed

- They were known as the most famous armed organization among the black people

- Used violence as their public stance

Characterization - Louis

- Main character - Cecil's son

Beginning:

- Disagrees with his father

- College in the south - Black Panthers - against Cecil's stance

- Meets a girl from the Black Panthers

- Doesn't talk to his father for some years

End:

- Leaves the Black Panthers

- Completes college

- Makes peace

Theme

Analysis of the butler

- Segregation - north and south

- The development in the US

- The Black Panthers - rebellion

Technique

Time and environment

In the middle of the movie, sit-in while Cecil serves the president - cross clipping between the scenes and dramatic background music

The message

Positive

The development in the US:

- Beginning, no rights, lived like slaves

- End: Black and white are equal

Cecil visits the president and is welcomed by a white butler

  • 2013 drama, historical, inspired by the real-life of Eugene Allen
  • Plot covers from 1926 to 2009
  • Flash back
  • Different environments - lower class, upper class, middle class
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