Remember The Titans Summary Essay

Remember the Titans

Jamie Velez

Elizabeth Hughes

Paul Way

EDUC 268

Remember the Titans– Five Step Analysis

Plot Summary

In April of 1971, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that ended all stateimposed segregation in public schools. This was the same year that T. C. Williams High School located in Alexander Virginia was integrated. This is the setting for the movie Remember the Titans, staring Denzel Washington who portraysHerman Boone the head coach of the Titans.

Herman Boone is brought in as an assistant coach to join the all white coaching staff. When Herman Boone is appointed head coach over a wining white coach he is reluctant to accept because the same things had happened to him when a white coach had been appointed over him in ...show more content...

He did it without looking for gratitude or glory. He is even able to complement Coach Boone at the end of the summer camp for his fine work. Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell are the unofficial leaders of the white and black teams respectively. They fall into this position because of their athleticism, personal convictions, and need to protect their "brothers". Gerry Bertier ultimately becomes team leader by learning to set aside his prejudice and focus on the team regardless of color. The relationship that develops between Bertier and Campbell lead the way for most of the team to come together.

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Issues

The leaders are forced to face many issues that are poised to tear the team apart:

В· Herman Boone appointed over qualified winning white coach

В· Conflicting leadership styles between Herman Boone and Bill Yoast

В· Racism in the south at the beginning of the 1970s

Divided team due to black and white being forced to play together

В· Divided coaching staff due to black and white being forced to coach together

В· Machinations of School board and other governing bodies

В· Coach Boone suspicious of Bill Yoast possibly sabotaging his efforts

В· Coach Boone sacrificing too much for the sake of winning

В· Coach Boone putting aside his pride to accept help from white

In 1971 Coach Herman Boone replaced a popular, successful white coach at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in that community's effort to finally integrate its schools. The school and community were angrily divided by the federal integration order, and the volatility of the situation was heightened by the abrupt demotion of Coach Yoast and Boone's promotion to Head Coach. In this movie Coach Boone is on a mission to try to get the white and black players to unite and play together as a team. He wanted the two races to become a team. Around that time, there was a lot of racism and a lot of schools were segregated, so the players obviously didn't get along with each other at first. A lot changed when Boone replaced Yoast...show more content...

This team actually started becoming a team after Coach Boone gave an inspiring speech at the graveyard in Gettysburg. That is when a team actually started to form. The speech was about the Civil War that happened at Gettysburg. He told the players to hear closely, because if they do, they can hear people saying things about killing their own brothers. He told the players that they have to stop fighting with one another and start thinking of each other as brothers and come together as a team and start seeing life in a different perspective. After that, they had plenty of practices and worked hard until they learned how to get along, and they finally did that. It was beautiful to watch them get along and become a team. They were becoming friends and would joke with one another in the locker rooms. Mostly everyone get along. Julius and Gary were becoming great friends, which was hard to believe, because they hated each other at first. Later on, they got a new player. He had long hair, and they called him "Sunshine". He was a quarterback and was the newest player on the mighty Titans. The team thought he was gay but he really wasn't. The team was ready to come back home after all the hard practices at camp. The town still didn't accept the fact that these two races were going to play on the same team. The parents of some of the players didn't like it, and the town didn't like it. On top of that, Coach Boone had to win every game. If Get more content

Remember The Titans

The movie Remember the Titans (Remember the Titans) is a film that is focused around the difficulties, and triumphs of desegregation in sports. The story takes place in T.C

Williams High School of Virgina in 1971 when Black student integration into public schools had begun. The football coachHerman Boone is also a newly hired black coach who must find a way to unite his prejudiced and separated team, and compete in the State and advanced championships. With lots of conflict, hard work, and astounding cultural discoveries, team unties and wins the State championship at the end of the movie. With relation to the film I will discuss the concept of power and social posititon among diverse peoples. I will also provide a critical self–refelxive...show more content...

The team's passion for football was also constructive to the unity of the team. As Coach Boone extended practices and demanded perfect unity, the team began to realize that previous prejudices would yield no help to their current conditions.On the other hand it was also interesting that the bond that the Titans were able to create was strengthened significantly, but became weak and diminished as peers pressured for separation. Sometimes even the greatest freindships on the football field were completely forgotten in the school hallways. My greatest take away is that true unity cannot exist until all pride is taken away, and genuine understanding is emphasized.As the group put off their pride, and sought to understand each other they were able to accomplish amazing things both on the game field, in their personal relationships, and their daily lives. I liked the plot of the movie, and the great message that it teaches. I also liked the comical scenes and relief points that keep the movie going because it makes it esier to follow along .I think it could have been better if it were more recent since it is an older film. Overall, the powerful message of success through differences was the greatest

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Remember The Titans Essay In the movie "Remember the Titans" by "Boaz Yakin" the character Herman Boone, played by "Denzel Washington", is faced by a difficult challenge that is significantly important to the movie. Boone in a sense faces a challenge of acceptance in which, by the end of the movie, he has experienced in two noticeable ways. Boone faces the challenge of being accepted by the community, revealing to us that he wants the community working together rather than judging and persecuting one another. Additionally Boone fights for the acceptance and respect of his team, The Titans, proving to them that they can indeed "make this race thing work". Boone faces the challenge of being accepted by the community, encouraging them...show more content...

There are avid examples of the work he does with the football team to illustrate these principal ideas. When the members of the football team all prepared to leave for camp, they boarded the two busses according to their color and clearly did not want have anything to do with each other. Coach Boone outraged by a comment from Gerry Bertier calls all the players to the front of the busses. He orders them to pair up according to their positions on the football field, accomplishing team unity and overcoming the first obstacle in getting the boys to work together. Also of interest are the responses of the player's parents when they return from camp. They are surprised to see how Coach Boone has changed them. The parents are still prejudiced however their children have changed once again illustrating that Coach Boone, although he had not yet been accepted by the community he managed to get the boys to work together. He had overcome his challenge. Boone fights for the acceptance, respect and unity of his team proving that school integration, and the black and white players can work together. By the end of the movie there are bonds formed between Bonne and both the black and white player of The Titans. These bonds are important as we as the audience understand that Boone has gained the acceptance and respect of Coach Yoasts team. In the first instance before the camp Gerry Bertier claimed that "he could not play with these animals", by the end of the movie he we could

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