We Are Marshall Character Analysis

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On November 14th 1970, a terrible tragedy impacted Marshall University and the community. On this day, 75 people,mostly players and coaches,lost their lives in a tragic plane crash. The school now had to take actions when it came up to the following football season tough decisions begin to follow. Would the University end the football program all together because of what happened or become a stronger football team because out of everything that had happened on that day May 14. The story of We are Marshall is so horrific that it really gets you going and thinking about what happened the team was just trying to get home but instead they all died in the plane accident countless family members were lost sons,mothers,coaches and booster and the community had to stay strong at this time.

Coach Lengal from the start made a lot of decisions that would impact the football players in various ways one thing that he
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They all came together and where there for each person making sure that they were okay and where dealing with the loss of their love ones. If I had the opportunity to change some things in this movie I would in my opinion try to make the football players in the beginning have more time to portray their character before the plane crash happened. But other then that the movie was really well formed together and it was a movie that really got you thinking about how anything can happen in life and it's how we handle it that defines us. And to just think they were just coming back from a game didnt think anything was going to happen and then later that day there where all 75 people had died. Our choices define us and we all have to think smart in order to live a good life and there. Are things that we can't control and it's how we handle those things that really determines how we are all going to move

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