Film Study paper

Conflict
Joy Roy
Mrs. Cochran
English
Conflict puts stories together and makes the stories interesting. A common motif in Remember the Titans, Freedom Writers, Little Women is conflict. Conflict in Remember the Titans, Freedom Writers, and Little Women because without the conflict there is no story for the movie.

In Remember the Titans the conflict is between whites and blacks. The first conflict is between Gary and Julius because Gary doesn’t like blacks so he always starts a fight with Julius. The second conflict is between Gary and himself because he gets hit and it paralyzed him from the waist down and doesn’t care because he can’t play football anymore. The third conflict is between the team and the coach because the coach is going to give up because they were losing. The team won at the end of the game.

In Freedom Writers the conflict is between races. The first conflict is between the teacher and the kids because they didn’t think they were worth anything. They gets treated poorly. The second conflict is between the school board and Erin because she wanted to keep the kids for sophomore and senior year. The kids wanted to stay together because they became a family. The third conflict is between the whites and the blacks because the blacks were all carrying guns and shooting people. When they met Erin they changed a lot because Erin did everything for them.



In Little Women the conflict is between girl writers. The first conflict is between Jo and her sister because her sister always wants her way since she couldn’t have it she threw Jo’s book in the fire. The next conflict is Beth because she is dying because she has the scarlet fever. So her sister is really upset because they were best friends. The last conflict is when Laurie comes and visits and tells Jo he married her sister Amy. Amy didn’t talk to her sister in awhile and ask Jo if it was all right if she married Laurie.


Conflict in Remember the Titans, Freedom Writers, and Little Women is because without the conflict there is no story for the movies. These three films connect in the same way because the main characters are always fighting for their rights.