Movie Summary And Symbols In The Film 42 By Jackie Robinson

42 is a movie about the first African American baseball player in the MLB, Jackie Robinson. This movie is set during the Brooklyn Dodgers 1947 season where Jackie Robinson led them to the World Series in his rookie season. It discusses his fights with prejudice while attempting to concentrate on being the great baseball player that he is and that everyone is scared of. They are scared being they think that the blacks will take over the sport and whites will no longer have the advantage in baseball. 42 was set during the segregation of blacks and whites. Even though Jackie Robinson was clearly one of the better players in the MLB the fans, players, and even some of the coaches did not respect him and they treated him play he was an animal.

Whites using one bathroom and blacks have another broken up and nasty one, whites can sit in one section with cushions on the seats but blacks must sit in bleachers where splinters are in their butts when they stand up. It was the time where things were unfair but there was nothing you could do about it because the law said separate but

At this time, at least six African Americans were lynched in the south. According to the film, after Jackie scored a run the police officer walked up to him after he had just run over the catcher at home and told him to get off the field because blacks were not allowed to play baseball with the whites in the South. This was also the time when restrictive covenants were legal. Blacks were banned from buying houses in certain neighborhoods, not only in the South. There were only two blacks in congress and no major city had a black mayor.

Even though this is a great film, it is not historically correct. This film talks about the work of only person, Branch Rickey, who was the general manager for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Supposedly, in the film Rickey was the responsible for taking Jackie from rags to riches by removing him from the Negro-league and bringing him to the major league. This was not true. The major reason why Jackie played in the MLB is because of a social protest movement. They were not protesting solely for Jackie but for much bigger things in life. They wanted to end discrimination in all facets of life: jobs, houses and everyday