British Imperialism In South Africa

Decent Essays
Abu Sayeed
AP Literature

TITLE: The British imperialism
LOGLINE: An Indian man who travels from South Africa to India to fight against the cruelty of the British government.
QUICK PLOT DESCRIPTION: When British is controlling India a lot of violence increasing. These Civilized people are becoming uncivilized. They encounter with more violence than the native people. They were stealing cotton and other raw materials. However, a young man tries to stop all this violence and he tries to bring peace in India.
TRIGGER- WHAT SETS THE PLOT IN MOTION:
A young man travels back to his own country, he finds out that the British government is terribly controlling over native people. When he interviews a victim. He finds out that they cut off victim hand because he didn’t find enough
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They all want freedom from them, so they all started to join the nonviolence movement to overthrow the British government. They become successful and they are able to get not only freedom also they make them leave India.
SETTING: West Bengal
ATMOSPHERE: There are a lot of blacks and red colors, symbolizing the “black” is the dark side of imperialism and “red” symbolizes death and blood. There are some 60s elements because people use the same technique to get freedom.
LOCATION: This should be filmed in India and not other countries because this story based on Indian history.
MESSAGE: The British are extremely cruel to Indian people. During British imperialism in India, the native people face dark side of imperialism. The British government cut off their legs or hands as punishment if they didn’t get enough resources from them. They are living in the dark. However, one young man stood up for everyone and fight against the unfair treatment of British. This young man brings light in India by forcing them to leave India without using

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