S29

1 1. The purpose of the Gettysburg speech by Coach Boone to his team is to show if they remained divided by racism, then they also will destroy each other just as the North and the South did at the Battle of Gettysburg.

2. The audience is Coach Boone’s players and fellow coaches because they all had to overcome the controversy of racial equality in their time period.

3. Pathos is used constantly throughout Coach Boone’s speech. The battlefield and speech both give a pathos effect in the scene. Boone intentionally uses words like “brothers” “young boys” and the 50,000 that died to create that feeling of sympathy for the dead and unity with each other.

4. Yes, this speech is effective because of how it was set up and the use of comparing the dead soldiers to the boys. Boone’s use of this comparison causes the boys to realize what will happen to them if they continue to follow the path that they are on.

5. The argument could have been strengthened by creating more of a feeling that they are in it together. The mirror image of the team and the “young boys” that died was effective to represent their situation but, Coach Boone could have better accomplished his goal by further emphasizing that they had to become one.