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How Does Remember The Titans Overcome Adversity

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Tackling Adversity If you lived in the time period of the start of integration how would you handle it? The movie Remember the Titans took place in Alexandria, Virginia in 1921. The film was directed by Boaz Yakin. This movie including a major movie star, Denzel Washington, playing the role of Coach Boone. The film took place in a time where whites and african americans were separated until two schools integrate and create one school called T.C Williams. The main social issue in the film is racism and discrimination. Remember the Titans teaches viewers the importance about overcoming adversity. The main characters in the movie are Coach Boone, Coach Yoast, Gerry, and Julius. Remember the Titans is a story that follows the intertwinement of these characters lives’ through the game of football in a town that has not yet embraced integration. It begins with a white school and an african american school integrating and Coach Boone, an african american coach, taking the position as head coach from Coach Yoast. It was a very rough transition for everyone in the town and all the football players set out to football camp getting ready for the season and getting to know each other. While in camp there were …show more content…

Once Julius first got to the hospital he hugged Gerry's mom and she told him that Gerry only wanted to see him. Gerry and Julius really overcame the adversity because in this scene it truly shows that they have a really strong bond that cannot be broken and they don’t care about their skin color. When Julius first walks into the room that Gerry is in the nurse said “Only kin’s allowed in here” and Gerry made a remark saying “Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother.” After that is said viewers really understand the bond between them and they always will be there for each other no matter what

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