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Remember the Titans - Summary
Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is a movie about a white football team that starts allowing black people to join the team. Coach Yoast is the white football leader, who shows his leadership by gaining respect and always letting the team speak their mind. Coach Boon is the black football leader who takes over Yoast's job. Boone shows leadership by punishing the team until they complete something to his standards. Gerry is the captain of the football team and shows leadership by influencing them to say what they want and to have their opinion on everything. Remember the Titans is a movie about leadership, teamwork and the coming together of blacks and whites.
Coach Boone is a black football coach who was transfered to T.C Williams High, to take the place as coach for the Titans. He had moved to the town after his last job was taken away from him by a white man, purely because he was white. Coach Boone was a tough leader. He didn't care what the others though, he had a plan and he stuck by it. In the movie, he wanted his team to suceed and he knew in order to do well, they had to respect one another and get along. The Titans went on a camp in the begining of the movie for training. Coach Boone told them to learn a few things from each other or they would have to train three times a day. He also made them train with no water breaks because they had a fight over race issues. He gave the team a lot of speeches, one of them was about the Gettyburg battle where countless lives had been lost because black and whites had refused to unite. The team and coach Yoast were inspired by Coach Boone's impassioned speech. In one of the games, Petey, the Quaterback had been yelled at by Coach Boone, resulting in him wanting to leave the team. Although Coach Boone had been fired from his last job because a white man wanted that position, he shows respect to all who have earned it, even Coach Yoast who had gone against Boone's wishes numerous times. Coach Boone is a

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