THE PATRIOT

Historical Content

• The movie was accurate to how they prepared.
• the battle strategies were familiar to what we read
• Washington leading the Continental Army into many good and bad battles
• It showed when the Continentals stayed at Valley Forge

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• The film showed the coloinest the way we read about them, some stayed loyoal to the crown
• Some colonist took a little bit more to get in to the militias
• The British are made to look like wealthy people who are well respected people, who come to find some slaves to work on there land
• The blacks are made to just work on the land, when they went to fight they had no respect they were treated like crap
• The women are made to just stay home clean, take care of the kids, and cook they have little rights

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• They looked more towards the her(the Americans) they were always focusing on what the next move Mel Gibson would make to revenge the death of his sons
• When Mel joined the US he became a leader of an militia he had plains that couldn't be stop, his battle mind was unstoppable
• The vilian was Cornwallis and how his battle strategies were amazing how is offense attacking was unbelievable they had to plain ahead on how to stop him
• The point at which i saw the brains of an genius of Mel is when he went to Cornwallis to retrieve his capture men and how his plan was amazing
• The entire British army was made out the be the villain how they showed the sons being killed my the British solider and how all they wanted to is kill him

I ALWAYS AM EMOTIONAL WHEN I SEE A MOVIE WHERE AMERICANS ARE DYING FOR MY FREEDOM. THE WORST IS WHEN THE KIDS DIE AND YOU SEE THE HOUSES GETTING SET ON FIRE AND THE WOMEN AND KIDS ARE KILLED ITS AWLAYS HORIBBLE TO SEE THAT.

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• I dont understand the meaning of people killing the soliders families. The families they have nothing to do with the war
• The war is the begging of our great country. Its touching to know that so many people died to start up our country.

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• I didn't know that the British killed soldiers family's. They would kill them to get the soldiers attention
• That mens kids at a young age were aloud to sign up for the war.

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• I have a lot more respect for younger boys because they fought for my freedom in the Revolution
• They are fighting in the worst of wars because they would stand there and literally take shots from 20 feet away
• The war itself was just crazy. Just thinking about it scares me with cannons
• I believe that this war was the biggest war ever fought in US history due to the fact that it changed all our lives
• AMERICA

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• The war change the we governor our selves and our rights

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• this helped me visual how the battles could had been
• helped me se how they would have to walk for miles and hours on hand
• showed me how they would wear the same cloths for week and how they had to live during the harsh winters
• the way they had to just stand there and take shots with out moving
• The most it helped me realize how they would use strategies on how to attack and different ways they would attack the British

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• they basically changed the way of warfare