The Gettysburg Speech
By: Coach Herman Boone From: Remember the Titans Anybody know what this place is? This is Gettysburg. This is where they fought the Battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fightin' the same fight that we're still fightin' amongst ourselves today.
This green field right here was painted red, bubblin' with the blood of young boys, smoke and hot lead pourin' right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men: 'I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family.' You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead. If we don't come together, right now, on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed -- just like they were. I don't care if you like each other or not. But you will respect each other. And maybe -- I don't know -- maybe we'll learn to play this game like men. |
This is a rhetorical question that Coach Herman Boone is asking his athletes.
This is a metaphor, because the field wasn't actually painted red with a huge paintbrush. "This green field right here was painted red, bubblin' with the blood of young boys, smoke and hot lead pourin' right through their bodies"(Boone). This is an example of imagery, because Boone is painting an image of what happened. malice: The desire or intention to do evil. This is a paradox since you can't actually take a lesson from the dead. In Lincoln's Gettysburg Address he says "we can not hallow this ground" (Lincoln). The coach is using a metaphor, because the players, including him, wont actually be destroyed. War isn't a game,so this is said to show that the men should take it more seriously and with respect The rhetorical devise used in Coach Boone's speech: paradox, metaphor, and rhetorical question.
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Citation: "American Rhetoric: Movie Speech from Remember the Titans - Gettysburg Speech." Remember the Titans - Gettysburg Speech. American Rhetoric, 2006. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
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