Lincoln The Movie Essay

From all the great things the president Abraham Lincoln has done, he should worth the name of hero. Like how he pushed for the 13th Amendment, an amendment that abolished slavery. From the movie Lincoln (2012 movie, directed by Steven Spielberg), showed how the wife of Lincoln is strongly against to pass the amendment, she thinks is a waste of his power to involved in the slavery. In fact, he done anything he could had done to pass this amendment. He would like to see the end of slavery.
At first, he is talking to his wife about a dream he had recently : A dream that he is standing on top of the ship,sailing toward the sun. However, Mrs. Lincoln understand what he is trying to say to her, it is the 13thAmendment that he is trying to pass.. It simply symbolized that he is going to bring an end to the slavery with the amendment he is trying to get through in the Congress, it passed by the U.S. Senate, it just need two-third of the votes within Congress to ratify this

Offering Job to them, like how they offer Mr. Hawkins to become the Postmaster of the Millersburg Post Office. He also lie to people, he have make an agreement with Preston Blair, that he will talk peace with the southern men to end the war quickly. Mr. Blair promise he will procure the votes for Lincoln to return the favor for Lincoln to have a peace talk with the Southern men. He isn’t really telling a lie, just simply not being fully honest, he is smart with the wording. He also delay and changed the peace talk meeting with the Southern men, they were scheduled to come stright forward to Washington D.C., but Lincoln tell Ulysses Grant (General) “Have Captain Saunders convey the gentlemen abroad the River Queen as far as Hampton Roads, Virginia, and there wait until further advice from me.”. He telling him to do not proceed to Washington, which might mess up his