Solomon Northup Character Analysis

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Flogging scars and loss of identity; kidnapped, chained, and tortured, Chiwetel Ejiofor, playing the character of Solomon Northup, is a man struggling to survive in the pre civil war south in the movie 12 Years a Slave. Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley efficiently accomplish the gut wrenching memoir of Solomon Northup by the astonishing work of sound, dialogue, and framework.
Solomon Northup was a free black man from Saratoga Springs, New York who is taken away from his family and bargained for slavery in the South. Sold to the cruelty of one particular owner Edwin Epps, surprisingly he finds kindness from one more, as he struggles constantly to survive and keep up with the little dignity he had left throughout this dehumanizing

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