Thursday, May 10, 2012
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Glory greatly portrayed an African-american's life in the Union army. I truly wonder if the promotion of Rawlings actually happened during the Civil War. Also I wonder if people were a lot sympathetic to their soldiers like how Robert was to his regiment. African-american soldiers were often looked down upon and deprived of needs like adequate clothing like shoes. Robert Shaw had already befriended Thomas, which was how he quickly learned to love his regiment. Knowing Thomas, he felt sympathy for the soldiers and cared for them. Most white folks would not have displayed this much kindness towards African-americans. I believe the movie is very realistic and portrays life in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment very well. What made me really think was when one of the contraband soldiers assaulted the Southern women. They were openly disgracing themselves and putting a bad reputation on the North
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I agree that the event was depicted historically accurate and I don't think that the African-Americans should have been treated the way they were treated. The promotion of Rawlings probably did happen or maybe it was just added in to have a better plot for the movie. Either way, I think it made the movie a great one. Life back then for the 54th Colored Regiment was very rough.
ReplyDeleteThe scene when the contraband soldiers assaulted the Southern women also made me think because when Colonel Montgomery commented that the blacks would never really be used in battle and were basically just used for manual labor. I also believe that the movie was realistic because there was alot of prejudice towards the blacks.
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