Blood Diamond
BLOOD DIAMOND
BLOOD DIAMOND
Casey Maas 10.7 English
What have you learnt about life in Africa from watching this film?
From watching the film Blood Diamond I have learnt that Africa can be a beautiful place when it’s calm, but most of the time it’s dictated by violence and mis-understanding. In the film there is some beautiful times, like at the start when Solomon and his son Dia go fishing early in the morning and it’s all so peaceful and quiet and near the end when Danny rings up Maddy to say his good byes before he went to another place, just the view that he saw was beautiful. I have also learnt that a lot of people live there and it is a really poor place because of the population of people so most of the people don’t have homes, so they live on the ground or in something they made with hay or straw. One of the other things is that Africa is a really big place and no matter how poor people are or how sore someone was they were happy as long as they had their family and it shows that throughout the movie, the only time they weren’t happy was when they lost everyone for the R.U.F. and the army shooting everyone just so the army can try and save as many as they could, they didn’t mean to shoot the people they did they just had to keep shooting so they could get the people in the R.U.F. so they can save more people.
Describe each of the following characters using powerful and effective vocabulary and phrases. Quote if you can (Maddy, Danny, Solomon and Captain Poison). * Maddy is a really smart girl and came to Africa to find out some information about Africa and how they live and learn for her magazine that she was making, she still wanted to do her magazine but also help Solomon get his family and Danny get the diamond. After Danny died Maddy helped Solomon gets the money and his family for the diamond and make sure that everyone knew what Danny went through to get the diamond and help others happy. * Danny is a corrupt diamond smuggler that
BLOOD DIAMOND
Casey Maas 10.7 English
What have you learnt about life in Africa from watching this film?
From watching the film Blood Diamond I have learnt that Africa can be a beautiful place when it’s calm, but most of the time it’s dictated by violence and mis-understanding. In the film there is some beautiful times, like at the start when Solomon and his son Dia go fishing early in the morning and it’s all so peaceful and quiet and near the end when Danny rings up Maddy to say his good byes before he went to another place, just the view that he saw was beautiful. I have also learnt that a lot of people live there and it is a really poor place because of the population of people so most of the people don’t have homes, so they live on the ground or in something they made with hay or straw. One of the other things is that Africa is a really big place and no matter how poor people are or how sore someone was they were happy as long as they had their family and it shows that throughout the movie, the only time they weren’t happy was when they lost everyone for the R.U.F. and the army shooting everyone just so the army can try and save as many as they could, they didn’t mean to shoot the people they did they just had to keep shooting so they could get the people in the R.U.F. so they can save more people.
Describe each of the following characters using powerful and effective vocabulary and phrases. Quote if you can (Maddy, Danny, Solomon and Captain Poison). * Maddy is a really smart girl and came to Africa to find out some information about Africa and how they live and learn for her magazine that she was making, she still wanted to do her magazine but also help Solomon get his family and Danny get the diamond. After Danny died Maddy helped Solomon gets the money and his family for the diamond and make sure that everyone knew what Danny went through to get the diamond and help others happy. * Danny is a corrupt diamond smuggler that