The Patriot

This movie is about a family headed by a white single male whose so called proficiency is carpentry.

The movie is comprised of so many important features existing throughout 18^th century. We have the element of slavery, gun, council, farming, nation, war, integration, and militia and so on.

We have slaves living in this family who claim to be freedmen but as the conversation goes one British general asserts: “there’s no such thing as freed men.” The concept is that wherever they go, they can be easily recognized because of their skin color. So, even if their master renders them as free, the system still will not allow that to happen.

We witness that the sense of insecurity is dominant in this period of time. Guns are being kept and shooting are taught to the little members of family especially male children just in case; and truly as the course of incidents shows this training came absolutely handy and useful. Individuals living on the new world have to be prepared to face anything and I mean anything. Because there is no clear cut rule; there is a sense of insecurity against the slaves, as the history sadly exhibited the fact that there were several riots and murders by the house slaves against the masters.

We have a council in Charlestown in which the property owners and owners of big plantations attend to help decide about the crises they are all in. This concept of congregation is believed to be borrowed from the British idea of parliament in which representatives of elites as well as commons attend and take steps along with the king. Same thing goes on here. America still follows the king of England and takes orders from him, so again in a parliament just like Britain’s it wants to be of right to consult and have representatives which later on became the core to set out for independence from the mother country.

Farming is the most important and lucrative profession of the time. Usually plantation owners are from the class of gentry that have a large number of slaves in their employment. Corn, cotton, and tobacco are the main products of this era which had made a good reason for trading with Europe.

The main message depicted in this movie is the sense of integration shaped among Americans when facing an outside threat toward their lives and specifically toward their families. We see that at first the main character is showing strong reluctance to join the war, but when losing a beloved son he has been left with no other choice save enter the war for vengeance. The same story goes on with a lot of other characters forming the unofficial militia that are interrupting the British carriages, killing them outside the battlefield and keeping their armors.

Moreover, America has shown a great deal of integrity in hard times, especially war times. That is, whenever there is a menace to destroy their lives or their identity, Americans become so much allied and goal oriented to remove that threat as soon as possible. This was the reason for forming the militia in this movie. Again, the same story is true touching upon the experience of cold war against Soviet Union as well as the incident of September 11^th during which Americans gave blank check for the federal government to bring back the security within the borders of America.

This means that though Americans are pro anti-statism in which they would like to keep differences and diversity as well as running away from a tyrant monologue of government, at these times there arises a sense of patriotism that says no matter what is going on within the borders, in harsh times our country is worth dying for, to keep the unity.