The Blindside Compare And Contrast

The movie “The Blindside” talks about the poem “Charge of the Light Brigade” which is about the war between the British and the Russians and how it is similar and different to football. Football and war are two different things with many similarities and differences. Here are some of the ways football and the poem are similar and some of the ways they are different. They are similar because, the poem says “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death, Rode the six hundred.” Which means that their leader made a mistake but they couldn’t do anything about it but do what he said. In football, when the coach tells the players that they have to do something, they do it even if the coach’s idea was really bad. Both the football players and the soldiers did something their leader or coach told them to do even if it was a bad idea. That’s what people call honor.

Plunged in the battery-smoke, Right through the line they broke; Cossack and Russian, Reeled from the sabre stroke, Shattered and sundered. They rode back, but not the six hundred.” That means that the soldiers fought the Russians and broke through the front lines. They decided to flee the scene but the soldiers that were reeling back were not all of the six hundred. In football, usually when a game is played the players reach their goal and sometimes someone messes up and gets injured or flagged to sit down on the bench so the people on the field were not all of the