Have you thought about Joshua Chamberlain’s speech to the mutineers? In the book “Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara, and the movie Gettysburg, He was a bit new to the Army but was still given the responsibility of one hundred and twenty men. He had to persuade them to fight with him.
In Joshua Chamberlain’s speech, many of his character traits were revealed. One of them being Responsible. “I’ve been ordered to take you men with me.” (Shaara 8). Another trait is that he’s humble. “I’m told that is you men (laughs quietly) don’t come I can shoot you. Well you know I won’t do that, maybe someone else will but I won’t.” (Shaara 8). Lastly, he is fair. “I’ll see to it you get fair treatment.” (Shaara 8). He is being fair with the mutineers because …show more content…
You can hear the tone in his voice. You can hear how when he’s giving the speech his voice breaks. In the movie you can also see his expression. You can see him tear up and you can see how emotional he gets. Which you can’t see in the book. Lastly you can see the emotions of Chamberlain and the mutineers. When he was giving his speech his emotion and there's changed. It shows how angry the mutineers looked at first and that softened when Chamberlain was being nice and asked if they were hungry. You can also see the disgust in Chamberlain's face when he talked about certain topics. There many advantages and disadvantages between the movie and book. For the book one advantage is that the text is easily cited, on the contrary, you can not cite text with the movie. An advantage to the movie is that you can hear the changes in voice and tone. On the other hand in the book you can’t hear it change. In the book you can hear the characters thoughts. To contrast in the movie you can’t really hear a person's thoughts. In the movie you can see the characters expression. Variance, you can not see the expressions of the characters in book. In conclusion Chamberlain’s speech to the mutineers brings up many topics. To name a few, it shows traits about Chamberlain. It shows how the movie shows many aspects. Also the advantages and disadvantages between the book and movie. After all this, would you have fought for