Themes In The Movie Coach Carter

It’s What Lies in Our Hearts Sportsmanship, leadership, communication and determination are a few valuable characteristics you will see in a successful team. Cockiness, attitude, arrogance and abandonation of the team, are deplorable characteristics seen in many inferior teams. In the movie Coach Carter, cockiness, attitude, arrogance and abandonation are traits the members of the team show but, no matter how hard or long it takes, Ken Carter wants to prove to them that if they are able to push themselves on and off the court, they will be able to achieve their goals and have a successful life. The team in Coach Carter is not your stereotypical family because of their looks, communication, attitude, and support they have for one another …show more content…
In the text The Color of Family Ties, it talks about race in families, the culture of races and the class of society. In a section of the text, it speaks about images seen in society of minority men and states that “This is not to say that Black and Latino men are not involved with ken, as implied in popular images of minority men hanging out on street corners rather than attending to family ties.” (The Color of Family Ties, 64). In the movie you see players Timo Cruz, Junior Battle, and Worm out on the streets getting into altercations with other men. After reading the text from The Color of Family Ties, it makes a person wonder if in some way popular images could be correct. One parent of a player even worried about his son getting involved in the wrong things if he could not play basketball. The boys were getting involved in the wrong things, Timo Cruz especially, instead of being inside with their families. However the text from The Color of Family Ties, can be switched around to look at the family for blame in situations involving a troublesome child. In many cases the family can be a reason for a person to act out. Jason Lyles, a member of the team, speaks to Coach Carter and tells him his father is in jail. Not having a father figure in a child’s life sometimes changes how the child behaves. Seeing a father, or any family member, in jail can make a child think that it is ok to behave wrongfully. Sometimes a person has to get hurt emotionally or physically to be able to change the way they act. Shortly after the altercation between the players and other men ended, Timo Cruz’s cousin Renny was shot. After watching that occur, he went to Coach Carter’s house and cried while begging to be let back on the team as spoken earlier in the paper. When watching this scene you see a change in Timo as if he is ready to