Monday, September 12, 2016
Practicing incorporating a quotation
I think that the movie Glory portrays a very important and interesting moment in history in an accurate and dramatic fashion. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, because it had me hooked and locked in to every twist and turn of the plot. This movie was so interesting, because the idea of letting African Americans fight for the Union in the Civil War was a highly debated topic at the time. There was so much skepticism, raising the question could African Americans learn to be soldiers as well as whites, and could they fight hard? The author of the Roger Ebert web-site stated that, "These men are proud to be soldiers, proud to wear the uniform and also too proud to accept the racism they see all around them, as when a decision is made to pay black troops less than white. Blacks march as far, bleed as much and die as soon, they argue". I agree with this accurate statement from the Roger Ebert review because in the movie, the 54th regiment not only learned as quick and fought as hard as white soldiers, but their racial hardships made them stronger fighters. They were extremely proud to be a part of something and represent their country, that they knew that they would die protecting it. The best example of this in the movie is when the soldiers of the 54th regiment refused to accept a paycheck, because the wage was smaller than the ones given to white soldiers, Followed by the heroic attempt to take Fort Wagner.
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