Segregation: Movie Analysis

The movie shows the hardship and struggles of the black children and adults who are just trying to live their life in a disrespectful, uncaring white society. The movie has many scenes that show how blacks were treated by others, some scenes were more intense in showing racism than others. Some scenes are less graphic but racism was still obvious. An example of this is the way that other white coaches would talk to each other about Texas Western and insult them just because they were different from other college basketball teams at this time. There was one scene where the team was on the road traveling and they stopped for dinner one night at a restaurant. Before the basketball team enters the restaurant, people in the restaurant were talking badly about the team and giving them dirty looks simply because of their skin color. In some scenes, racism was also shown in more intense ways. An example of this is when the team stopped at a restaurant to get some food and get ready for the game. One of the players left the team to use the bathroom. While the player was in the restroom, that player was ganged up on by two or three white men and the player was assaulted and beat up very badly. The events and blatant racism really took its toll on the team. After some of these

In the south, African Americans could not go to the same school as the white children. That made them mad because they were made equal. In the the book, The Watsons go to Birmingham, their cousins marched to have rights and to show that there should be no segregation between African Americans and whites. In the book ,The Watsons go to Birmingham it says “ White children often attended large, well equipped , modern schools while African American students went to one-room schoolhouses without enough books or teachers.”(207 -208) They treated them unfair because the African Americans got the hand me downs of the white kids.This is an example for how segregation fits in the book and when it really happened.

Imagine a world where prestige is evaluated by neither one’s character nor accomplishments, but predetermined by skin color. Visualize a world in which the nuances of skin color are used to sort and divide people amongst two factions: White or Black. Envision society segregated. Whites and Blacks tossed into two different worlds, as if mankind is a pile of dirty laundry which needs to be organized by color. The reality is this hypothetical world did in fact exist in the United States prior to the 1970s.

This movie took a very unique approach. It separated two classes of people, whites and blacks. They were separated by, what I believe is the greatest degree of separation today, money. In the movie the only people in the upper class were black and the main family in the movie was

Another point issue not address in the movie is the importance of the characters because it doesn’t show Paul, the white deputy. He is very significant in the book because it shows that he has respect for black people, and shows that not every white person is pregedist against blacks. At the end of the book, he personally delivers the notice that Jefferson was the strongest and fearless man he has ever seen to walk to the electric room and die as a man. Thus, the book is better than the novel because it is shows how bad and how good, at the same time, whites treated blacks. Another character not mention at all in

According to the passage, A Tale of Segregation, William and his father had to wait to get water because when it was finally their turn to get their water, two white people grabbed them. They said that William and his father had to wait to get their water until all of the white people got their water first. This shows that black people didn’t have any respect or rights since another race just told them what to do and they listened. William and his father didn’t attempt to say anything or stand up for themselves because they knew that they wouldn’t have understand. In the video, John F. Kennedy’s Finest Moment, governor of Alabama, George Wallace, made sure that the first two black people couldn’t register for the University of Alabama. I think

Not only does this book have a greater impact but you get a greater understanding with what is going on. Usually, when reading a regular book with no pictures it is hard to connect to what is happening in the story, sometimes it is hard to understand what is happening. With a book like this that has many pictures along with text is puts you in the experience, emotionally, and visually. Another good thing about this book is that it is appealing to many ages and groups of people. Another thing that was amazingly shown in this book was all the racism these people had to take. This book had almost as much impact as Selma.

According to the passage, A Tale of Segregation William and his father have to wait to get water because, according to the city,” All white people should get their water first, before dark colored skin people.” His father said,”This is a real act of hatred and prejudice,” because william thinks himself and people that are his skin color shouldn’t be treated just the way they were being treated right now. Also while they were waiting William's Father said,” There’s gonna come a day when this won’t be anymore”, because William’s father thinks in the future, that he’s hoping what over is going on in his time, shouldn’t be the same in the future.

I think this is an important difference because they show how throughout the years, colored people started to gain rights. For example, in the book all the colored people were disrespected and had no say in anything. In the movie, colored people had jobs, like the coach of the team. He even had a higher job than the white coach. Another difference is that there were more colored students entering the school of the white people in the movie, than in the book.

The movie had the power to paint a picture your mind. But it didn't have that information that the book had. The movie didn't have the explaining that the

Regardless of all these similarities, there were also very noticeable differences. One of these would be the newly-introduced cousins of the family. In the book, these characters were never mentioned, which could prove confusing at first if you didn't remember much from it. Not only did they add them, but they showed much more segregation-related issues that many people of color would have faced in the south as well; also included in the film.

Secondly, there is a conflicting viewpoint in the book and the movie. In the book the main focus is the family but in the movie the main focus is on race and the hard times.

So you can see, the film is better than the book if you consider all of the similarities and differences.

Race does not play a large role in this movie, which tells you a lot about the community the movie is set in. None of the characters in the movie are people of color. This tells the audience that the movie is dealing with an all-white, poor, rural community. This allows the audience to fill in information regarding this community based on what is already known about such communities.

The Minority Report is a film that tries to stop crimes before they happen, with the enlistment of 3 teen pre-cogs. These pre-cogs predict future murders and the authorities swoop in and arrest the would-be murders, before they have the chance of committing the crime. Even thing goes great until Anderton, a cop played by Tom Cruise, is suspected. Written by Philip K. Dick and then turned to film by Steven Spielberg in 2002, the short story to film became a success. Though there are many differences between the book and the movie, one would think Steven Spielberg would not be able to grab audience’s attention, but with his skills, Spielberg went above and beyond all measures. Many times, novels to films end up being either a great hit