In the film A Soldier’s Story based on a book written by Charles Fuller, Sargent Waters, a character in the film and the story is a hard boiled man with a savior complex. He has character traits similar to another man with the same problems. That man is Adolf Hitler, the chancellor of Germany during World War II. Adolf Hitler’s destructive path started with the results of World War I. The war had many ramifications such as 16 million people who died worldwide but what fueled the flame for the second World War was the deal that was struck with Germany. The effects of WWI were unlike anything that the world has ever seen and so a meeting between the leaders of England, France, Italy, and the United States. The meeting that brought these leaders
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Water’s father pushed him to forsake Southern African American and strive to be more like the Whites. His father pushed him to be better; Waters would accomplish this by speaking like the white man does and listening to classical music. The Sargent some how turns this into a mission to dispose of any one who could hurt the image of how African American were view. He reveals to Private Wilkie the events of his tour in France. He tells the reader and Wilkie of an incident at the Café Napoléon where French men requested entertainment from a black soldier; they asked the soldier to dress as a monkey and parade around the Café. The Frenchmen named him Moonshine, King of the Monkeys. Waters continues this story by telling Wilkie what him and some other soldier did to “Moonshine”, he describes how they slit his throat. Waters then applies this crusade to Southerners and how they don’t benefit the race as a whole so therefore should be eliminated. He, with the help of Wilkie, wrongfully accuses C.J, a southern soldier, for the murder of a white MP. He reveals to C.J that he wasn’t the first one that he has done this to. Waters does these things in an attempt eradicate southern soldiers because they don’t benefit the advancement of the race in his eyes. Adolf Hitler and Sargent Waters both have similar motives for their actions. They both just wanted
Water’s father pushed him to forsake Southern African American and strive to be more like the Whites. His father pushed him to be better; Waters would accomplish this by speaking like the white man does and listening to classical music. The Sargent some how turns this into a mission to dispose of any one who could hurt the image of how African American were view. He reveals to Private Wilkie the events of his tour in France. He tells the reader and Wilkie of an incident at the Café Napoléon where French men requested entertainment from a black soldier; they asked the soldier to dress as a monkey and parade around the Café. The Frenchmen named him Moonshine, King of the Monkeys. Waters continues this story by telling Wilkie what him and some other soldier did to “Moonshine”, he describes how they slit his throat. Waters then applies this crusade to Southerners and how they don’t benefit the race as a whole so therefore should be eliminated. He, with the help of Wilkie, wrongfully accuses C.J, a southern soldier, for the murder of a white MP. He reveals to C.J that he wasn’t the first one that he has done this to. Waters does these things in an attempt eradicate southern soldiers because they don’t benefit the advancement of the race in his eyes. Adolf Hitler and Sargent Waters both have similar motives for their actions. They both just wanted