Abstract
The story happened in 1970s where theracial issue was still very serious in the U.S. Three high schools, in regardto a certain reason, merged together to one. Not only were the Caucasian and African American students put togetherbut also two coaches, Bill Yoast and Herman Boone had to get familiar with eachto coach the football team. The football team suffered from putting a teamtogether but eventually succeeded to win a series of games. It also showed tothe city that the difference between races would not affect the friendship.

Character Analysis: Herman Boone
Boone played an important role in theentire movie. His ability of taking charge could be summarized as “there is nodemocracy” in his opening to the summer camp. He brought his team to the battlefield to show them the importance ofthe team and the fierce battles they were still fighting against. This visionwas confirmed and repeated by Coach Yoast later in the end of the movie: “Youguys taught to the city how to trust the soul of the men, not the look of theman.” Meanwhile he gave empowerment tothe team. For example, when Garry told him he wanted Ray off because he was notblocking purposely, Boone said Garry was the captain, meaning that Garry shouldtake good charge of it.

Another example that demonstrated Boone’staking in charge was he never considered quitting his job. He came to T.C.Williams at a very bad situation. Coach Yoast had been with the team for years andthe Caucasian players claimed to sit outside in the coming season. Even thoughlater Coach Yoast agreed to stay as an assistant coach, Boone was threatenedthat he would be fired even if he lost any game. His position was hardlyaccepted by the public and even Coach Yoast’s daughter, Sheryl, did not likehim.

Several movie reviews all commented on his‘brute force’ in the summer camp to merge Caucasians and African Americanstogether. He forced the players to sit with, room with, and get to know theplayers of a different race. Indeed themix involved some fights and culture shock, i.e., “ohm, wait, he does have ajob, doesn’t he?” But fortunately Boone’s effort was eventually paid off. Twoleaders, Garry, an All-American start and Julius, an African American playerbecame sworn brothers. Lewis succeeded to get admitted to college although henever thought he could maintain a grade of C. Boone seemed to be a good pioneerin the small town to motive people of different races closed. He was a footballcoach. He understood in sports as long as a team functioned well, it did notmatter the colors of the skin that its altheas have.

As Boone firstly announced to the teamthere was no democracy, it has been determined that one-way communication wasthe way that Boone adopted. He gave a harsh discipline even before the summercamp started. When he asked for every team member to arrive at 7:30, he meanteven if the member one minute late, he would sit at the bench and watch thegame in the season. He took the example of wearing a tie to explain how hisword should be strictly followed. But his lack of understanding to team membersalso generated instability in the team. In one game, Petey was forced to leavethe game by Boone, while Yoast used a milder way to encourage Petey. Booneconsidered it as a challenge to his management and questioned Yoast why henever did that to Garry or other Caucasian players. joozone.com