• Engelsk
  • Utdanning: Vg2
  • Karakter: 5
  • Ord: 2560

Innholdsfortegnelse
Before Watching
Find Information About the Following Persons/events (They Are All Mentioned/they All Play a Role in the Movie):
- What Does Segregation Mean and How Was It Practiced in the Southern States of America? Give Specific Examples. You Are Also Welcome to Include Pictures.
- Who Were Emmett Till and Mamie Till?
- Who Was Earl Warren?
- Why Did President Eisenhower Send Troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957?
- What Was the Civil Rights Movement Struggling to Achieve?
- Who Was the Leading Figure of the Civil Rights Movement, and What Do You Know About Him/her?
- Find Out What the Freedom Rides Were.
- Explain the Black Panther Movement.

After Watching:
- How Do the Events in Cecil’s Childhood at the Cotton Farm Influence Him?
- Comment on the Relationship Between Black and White People as Portrayed in the Movie. Give Specific Examples to Illustrate Your Points.
- Cecil Is Told That Black People Have Two Faces – ’Ours and the One We Show the White Folks’. What Does That Mean?
- Make a Character Analysis of Cecil, and Remember to Give Specific Examples from the Movie to Illustrate Your Arguments.
- Explain the Most Obvious Differences Between Cecil’s Two Sons Louis and Charlie, and Characterize the Relationship Between Cecil and Louis.
- Characterize Cecil’s Wife Gloria and – in This Connection – the Development That She Goes Through During the Movie.
- What Do You See as the Most Important Event That Cecil Witnesses – and Why?
- “The Butler” Is Based on the True Story of Eugene Allen, Who Worked as a Butler in the White House for About 34 Years. How Does the Dramatization (The Movie) Differ from the True Story? Mention Some of the Most Relevant Points.
- Relate This Movie to at Least One Other “Thing” That We Have Read or Seen in Our English Classes.
- What Did You Like/not Like About the Movie?

Utdrag
• What does segregation mean and how was it practiced in the southern states of America? Give specific examples. You are also welcome to include pictures.

The concept of segregation entails a deliberate separation, a distinct demarcation that isolates people or entities from their larger collective or whole.