The element of mood and symbols displayed in The Chronicles of Narnia adds to the plot and action of the movie. The scene begins and the blue sky filled with clouds, provides the perfect setting and suspenseful mood together with the howling of wolves and sad, haunting music. In this very moment, the viewer is still unsure of what will happen, but has a clue that something has to happen. Edmund steps over the wolf statue and he is caught unawares. The statue turns out to be a real wolf and he soon realizes this along with the viewers. Edmund enters the castle leaded by Maugrim (a wolf), who is the Head of the Secret Police, and not long after, the Witch catches him by surprise as he sits in her throne. She gets angry, when she discovers that Edmund did not do what he was told to do and her voice changes from calm and soothing, to booming and frightful. Symbols in this scene include the crown that the White Witch wears, representing power: winter setting, which is the result of the Witch's ruling over Narnia and Edmund sitting in the throne, as his future role as a king of Narnia.

Place and time is not as clearly defined in the specific scene, as the other elements of drama. The setting for this movie is Narnia is a mystical, enchanted place ruled by Aslan, a courageous and kind-hearted lion. In this amazing place, animals can talk and there are fauns and other half-human half-creature inhabitants roaming about. Narnia is filled with snow and icecaps, because ever since the Witch began her reign, there was no other season, but winter. Edmund enters the Witch's palace and he is greeted by an entirely different array of colors and textures. In front of him is the Witch's throne, which looks and feels like velvet. The castle has high ceilings and is adorned with statues of creatures the Witch froze.

In the scene, the focus is mainly on important characters/ surroundings in Narnia. When Edmund is approaching the castle and Maugrim attacks him, near the entrance, the camera is drawn to the sudden tension between him and Edmund. When the wolf leaves Edmund alone, as Edmund walks up the stairs leading to the entrance of the castle, the focus is on the castle itself, and this is because the castle plays an important role in the story. The statues placed near, are also in focus, and this is because they prove just how powerful and merciless the Witch is. Edmund finally enters the castle and he is drawn to the throne as if it is of importance. Later in the scene, when the Witch yells at Edmund, the camera is drawn to the Witch's face. The focus plays a very important part in this scene as it helps the audience understand what is happening and adds to the suspension.

The elements of drama are successfully represented and demonstrated in this scene, and in the whole movie. The Chronicles of Narnia- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, is an imaginative and unique movie that involves the audience in the story and puts the viewer on the edge of their seat, in every moment.

Rushing one by one up through the small hatch on the deck the slaves hide in the dark shadows of the night. Sinque slips silently forward coming closer and closer to the crew, then he strikes. With that the slaves went wild attacking their captors viciously and saving only two of the crew, providing they sailed them to Africa. The two crewmembers agreed to bring the slaves to Africa. The slaves keep a close eye but the crewmembers cunningly tricked the slaves and sailed them all the way to America.

Once they arrived at America the slaves were angry, some even thought they might be able to swim from the boat all the way to Africa. They were all rounded up and marched down the street, the pompous and the more caring people watch as the rag-tag and energetic people walk to the jail and are placed in a large cell.

That is when the issue came up, Are these free people? The law at the time was that a free man in America couldn’t be made a slave, only a person that was already a slave could be kept a slave, so were these all free people? The question’s solution resided in whether or not these slaves came from Africa, which would make them free, or if they came from the Caribbean as slaves already, making them slaves that belonged to the two Cubans who claimed they bought them there.

The abolitionists who were trying to help the slaves were worried they wouldn’t be able to help them, that is until they met Roger S. Baldwin who helped them massively through the whole trials. John Quincy Adams also played a major part in all of the trials especially the last.

There were obviously some major constitutional issues with this trial such as “all men are created equal.” What, if slavery is right, does this really mean? Aren’t the Africans people too? Obviously the south doesn’t think so. Senator John C. Calhoun looks at them as an item of the South’s economy, like cotton or grain. He feels if slaves are taken away it will ruin their economy, he pays no attention to the fact that these are actually living people with families and children just like him.

The Africans had a hard time, do to their highly territorial culture and background, when the desk for questioning was brought in to the cell. The table was placed in all different spots as the groups of tribes or little communities yelled out random words such as, MENDI! or such, trying to tell them to get the table out of their specific territory. The table was finally placed over in a corner, which is when the questioning began.

They tried all sorts of methods and languages but just couldn’t speak to them. They then figured they needed to find someone who could speak the language. They took some notes and started speaking the language on the streets until they came across James Covey, who basically was the key to solving the case, as he was a freed slave who could speak English and the tribe’s language.

They conferred with Sinque and the others through James Covey and eventually led them to all sorts of decisions. In the final trial John Quincy Adams makes a long and amazingly decision changing speech and the verdict is decided, the men and women are all let free and are to be brought back to Africa if they wish.

That is the story of the Amistad. The wild and energetically portrayed Africans that yelled and gave more of a hug then a hand shake were all let free. The Africans although in the beginning were portrayed more as wild savages turned out to be able to lean and think on their own, such as Sinque’s message “Let us free” showed that he had learned some English on his own. Eventually at the end Baldwin used Sinque’s culture and gave him the handshake that was more like a hug.

Obviously some of the southern and formal, or aristocratic if you will, white men were upset by all and possibly led their thoughts of civil war into more of an escalation. Of course there was also the kind, quiet and religious “entertainers” as the Africans called them who were utterly happy and went with al the slaves to Africa and started a small mission over in Africa, but over all the whites in the movie were portrayed a very diversified people, there were the pompous and snooty Southerners and you had the religious kind hearted choir members, there were even people such as Baldwin who changed throughout the movie, going from the beginning thinking the slaves as property and at the end realizing them as the people who were, deep inside, no different from him.