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By: Alex Haley D’Judson Domond Period 1 Roots!
This is Binta, she is one of the main character in the book. She live in a village in Gambia. Binta had a child that was black like her, flecked and slippery with Binta’s blood, and he was bawling. Binta’s child was name after the next 8 days. • This is Kunta, he is the main character in the book (Roots). It took his family 8 days to name him. The first child of Omoro and Binta Kinte is named Kunta! Everyone know in the village that Binta’s son name was the middle name of the child’s late grandfather, Kiaraba Kunta Kinte. Kunta was the first 4 sons of the Mandinka tribesman Omoro and his wife Binta Kebba.
The Setting! • The setting was that Binta had a child in the beginning of the book and the child was named in the next 8 days. It was named Kunta. Kunta was mostly the main character in the book Roots. His named came from his late grandfather, Kairaba Kunta Kinte, who had come from his native Mauretania into The Gambia, where he had saved the people of Juffure honorably till his death as the village’s holy man. One day in 1767, when young Kunta Kinte leaves his village to search for wood to make a drum, four men surround him and take him captive. Kunta awakens to find himself blindfolded, gagged, bound and prisoner of the white men. In chapter 60 it said, ”Kunta had learned to enjoy sitting around the fire with the them in front of the fiddler’s hut. But lately he’d found that he was spending less time talking with the fiddler – who had once been his only reason for being there – than with Bell and the old gardener.”
Conflict, the type of Conflict, and Resolution in the book Roots! • Starting with Kunta Kinte's traumatic capture and tracing an African-American family through slavery, the Civil War, and the complex transition into freedom, Roots gave blacks something they had been lacking in American popular culture: a history with a human face.Roots looked at slavery in a different way, as the life experience of real people, bringing the African-American experience vividly to life in an epic tale of family continuity. Mostly Roots try to find piece in the slavery but he couldn’t. In Gambia, Roots has brought a steady stream of African-American tourists, seeking perhaps something of their own roots in the country from which Kunta Kinte was stolen. In June of 1997, the country hosted the Roots Homecoming Festival to celebrate the connection between Africa and the descendants of slaves. One day in 1767, when young Kunta Kinte leaves his village to search for wood to make a drum, four men surround him and take him captive. Kunta awakens to find himself blindfolded, gagged, bound and prisoner of the white men.Kunta survives the trip to Maryland and is sold to a Virginia plantation owner, Master Waller-, who renames him "Toby". He rejects the name imposed by his owners, and refuses to speak to others. The people in the village didn’t help him out so he’s on his own leaving slavery.
The Resolution • Kunta get to join College in the end but he said it was worth it. Kunta’s dad went to A&T College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and was about to drop out of school and return home to sharecrop, Kunta’s dad said: “Because, boys, working four odd jobs, I just never had time to study.”
My Inference • My Inference was that Binta was never going to name her son but actually she did. I thought the three rains passed and thought it didn’t lean season when the village’s store of grain and other dried foods from the last harvest was almost gone. I knew that Kunta try to make a difference in the village in Gambia and he did.
Words that Summarize the story! Experiences Helping Confidence Testing Risky Trying Brave Seeking
The Theme!! • What I learn from the book is that you need leadership and confidence in yourself. • Being someone else ain't going solve anything but being someone is like Kunta in Roots. • That’s why its calls Roots. It always got a Root to help others like blacks or whites to earn there freedom and rights!
