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Amistad

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This was a great book. i had to read it for a book report. To tell you the truth I hate reading. This is the first time I read the whole book for a book report, it had me hooked. Now I get to see the movie. But, I understood the wording in the book, and It's just a good book the read. And I recommend it for all age groups.

There is not even close to enough words to discibe this novel by Alexs Pate which is based on the motion picture. The movie I thought was great. Take my word for it the book "Amistad", brings you into even more detail than the movie. I have read a lot of books, but this book really grabbed me into really feeling like I was there. It is a sensational and emotional book that will touch your heart and show you exactly what slavery was really like. How humans went through with this unhuman way to treat people. Filled with action and emotion this is one book that has it all.

Most often, it is a waste of your time to read a book after you see a movie. The plot is typically spoiled, while your expectations are shattered.

However, this is not the case with Pate's Amistad, based on the screenplay of Spielberg's extravaganza. The highly intriguing film left me searching for more, which Pate dutifully provided.

The language barriers that the film utilizes to allow the viewer to vicariously relive the confusion of all circumstances are more thoroughly explored in Pate's novel. The reader is thus allowed to understand and empathize with wide range of emotions experienced by a group of men and women abducted from their homeland and ultimately forced to endure a foreign judicial system that will determine their own fate.

If you enjoyed the film, but are looking for more, Pate's Amistad will not dissapoint.

This review was written by a student of mine who read this book in April.

I would give the book Amistad 4 stars. It is well written; it is a true story from the perspectives of many people. The book is about a group of Africans on a ship to America who take over the ship, but the white pilots trick them into sailing on to America. At America, the Africans are captured and put on trial, and put in jail multiple times. I think the part about the book that is not as good is that it's written from a movie, so there are a lot of scene changes, but there is a lot of description of feelings. I thought the only confusing part was how the whites tricked the Africans on the boat to sail the wrong direction when they knew which direction they had come from because of the rising/setting sun.

I don't really read big books but I made an Exception with this book AMISTAD by Alexis Pate. I highly recomend it to people who love to read about sad but true stories that touch your heart and take place many years ago. AMISTAD describes how hard and faithfully some fought for their freedom, that others took away from them, without giving up. This book really teaches the reader how thankful they should really be for their freedom. This book is perfect I promise that you'll be in another world. If I could I would give this book six and a half stars!

There have been lot of books written on the abolishment of Slavery in United States. But this book is unique in that it is not a mere putting down of facts which piled on for years. Through the characters the author has nicely portrayed the different attitudes and perception that people had about slavery and its abolishment. A Very nice book wherein you feel the characters and get involved in more than one way.

It's shocking to discover how much of real American history gets glossed over in schools. What's the point of teaching history at all if it's edited? At that point it might as well be folk tales, interesting stories lacking any real facts. Alexs Pate's version of the events surrounding the slave ship La Amistad are easy to follow thanks to his simple, direct writing style and unique ability to describe much in a few words. While a "fictionalized" account of true events, the story is nonetheless riveting and heartwrenching, astounding and sickening to behold. I am saddened and even a little angry I have so little knowledge of how the vast majority of Africans found their way to America and the truth of how my ancestors may have considered and treated them. The author does a fine job of remaining mostly neutral on the topic himself, letting the story unfold and almost tell itself. While some Africans had it a little better than others, during pre-Civil War days and even in some cases still today, no black man was ever truly free. Amistad is a brilliant book about suffering and the strength it may bring, about how hope may prevail under the direst of circumstances, about how mistakes can save lives and doing "the right thing" might end them. A quick, powerful read anyone of any color or belief may enjoy. An excellent book for anyone readying to delve into the truth of the past instead of blandly accepting some outdated school textbook of it. Masterpiece.

I don't really read big books but I made an exception with this book AMISTAD by Alexis Pate. I highly recommend it to people who love to read about sad but true stories that touch your heart and take place many years ago. AMISTAD describes how hard and faithfully some fought for their freedom, that others took away from them, without giving up. This book really teaches the reader how thankful they should really be for their freedom. This book is perfect I promise that you'll be in another world. If I could I would give this book six and a half!

I'm a teen student at Yokota High in Japan and this book( unlike most books I read)touched my heart. I never read something this amazing to me. I thank my mom for reccomending this to me. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!:-)

I've recently been reading the book Amistad . I think that it is a good book. I think that people should try reading it some time. It would be a good experience for them, and I think that if people try reading this book it would teach them a lesson on human nature

If we all treated each other like they did on the book, we would be doomed and like I learned in one of my classes an eye for eye would make the whole world blind
While I hope you all try reading it some time in your life.