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How Is Hope Revealed In Song Of Solomon
Everyday many people around the globe struggle with different difficulties. Many of these people overcome their difficulties by having hope and faith in themselves. Although, there is one reason that has always kept people making it through hard times, and that is love. Love is the biggest hope in a persons life.

Remember how people were once separated just because of the color of the skin? This was not too long ago. About 150 years ago in America and Africa, people traded with slaves. And these people were slaves just because they had a darker tone on their skin. Solomon Northup, an educated and well reputated black man once lived happy in America with his family which he loved more than anything in the world. His state of living changed drasticly one day after he once was kidnapped from his job. He were to become a slave for the white people who owned large cotton fields and had to leave everything he loved.
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Even though he was treated extremely bad, as all of the others who he worked with, he kept his hope up. Northup's hope drasticly changes through the novel, although he deep down know that one day he will be free and reunite with the ones he truly love.

Love is such an powerful emotion, although it can be extremely hard to express. Northup went through the toughest times you can only imagine and love is such a strong feeling the enlighten you in the worst of times. All the other characters think of the slavery as “hell on earth” which Northup does not. Therefore love is a winning concept which Northup believes in.

Loving your surroundings is a truly important factor in this novel. Northup never stops loving and you get a feeling from reading the novel that he almost starts loving the ones he is put into slavery with. Love is what gives someone hope when you need it, in the worst of times and in the best of


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