1. PLOT
The Great Debaters of which it portrays the inequitable view of the people to them in the American race. Yes, they are Americans, but they're black. Because of the color, they have been neglected out by the white people. The black Americans were living in life full of prejudiced and judgments by the whites.
The story was starred by the black American students of Wiley College who were trying to fight their right as a person or as one of the race that was being desolated for how many years. They have been fighting their rights and their views with the debates that they had indulged in. There was Melvin Tolson who have been a mentor, a professor an opener for the young debaters to be aware and keep their views as plausible in the field of combating their speeches. He was a teacher and a moderator in Wiley College, a black American. At the time of great superiority of the whites ( at around 1935) were highly been abused by them, he was one of the blacks who have opposed the misdeeds and the unfairness shown by the whites. By this, he has created a team to be known, to tackle about some social issues that will eventually elevate their pedestal as a person in the race of Americans. From then , he created the school's first debating team by selecting Hamilton Burgess, Henry Lowe, Samantha Booke and James Farmer Jr. as a team. from then on, they have competed the schools which was a school for the black people, and fortunately they won. Until then that they were bound to take the risk in trying to reign as winners in the debate in the boundaries of the whites. It was not an easy challenge for the team, the interracial debating in the United States was so popular at that time when eventually the team from Wiley College have garnered the trophy in the American South as winning team against the whites, it had been the time that were able to have a handful of appraisals from their fellow blacks and hopefully have been able to send an invitation to the Harvard University, to compete with them in a debate. Fortunately, the debaters from the Harvard have responded positively to the invitation done by the Wiley College. It was the time when a great tension emerged between the team, where Henry Lowe, the witty and versatile speaker of the team had declined to be the speaker in the said competition. Hence he will just assist and guide them in the preparation of the arguments. It was this time also that they were able to experience luxurious opportunities in the hotel and also this was the time when they were about to give up for they were given a false proposition and had given the exact one at the time when they were in the Boston. it was a moment to really feel the tension surging inside themselves, and it was the time that they were blaming each other. It added to their tensions the absence of their mentor where he opted to stay behind the competition to solve some of his problems regarding the equity of rights between black and whites. They have competed with no exact point of direction, the speakers were Samantha Booke and James Farmer Jr. with Henry Lowe as their researcher ( you might as well wonder the absence of Hamilton Burgess in the Debating team, he stopped as a debater when they were about to invade the boundaries of the whites at the American South). The debate was a tough one, the two speakers from the Harvard University was pretty confident that they will win against their opponents, however the two black one were really nervous in delivering their speeches. It was then the time of James Farmer Jr. to speak, that he told the people about a Black American being lynched to death and by that he quoted the saying of Augustine of Hippo, saying. "An unjust law is no law at all," where in he had said their struggles and stated their fears as human when they were chased like a criminal ones. But in fact, they are only Blacks, they said that it is not a sin to be black and as a person we should look beyond the color not the color itself. Then on, they have been announced as the winners in the said competition and had garnered respect from the society that blacks are indeed a great part in the American Fabric.Melvin Tolson, had witnessed their victory stealthily unlike the band and the students of the Wiley College who have been there visibly and vividly shared the success against racism. From then on, the debaters as well as their mentor have been living as aperson that inspires others, by some noble works of emancipating their race or even in the works of God, they were highly regarded as the great diplomats and as really the Great Debaters in the American history.
2. CONFICT
The conflict was when they were in the midst of competing the debating team of Harvard University, where everything seem to fall out of its proper places, when their mentor or moderator was arrested because of the movement towards the equity of the blacks from the whites, when they were able to witness and has been chased by the whites from the lynching of a black american, it was a shocking and traumatic experience for them and the breaking of the group as a team to cover- up their race as an important and significant kind of the Americans, where they were so tensed and has been provoked, and have been blaming each other for the mistakes during the preparation of the contest.
3. CHARACTERS
The protagonist in the story were the Black Americans and the antagonist were the white ones. The round/ flexible characters were, Henry Lowe, James Farmer Sr. and Hamilton Burgess, and the static ones were, Samantha Booke, James Farmer Jr., Melvin Tolson and Sheriff Dozier.
The main or the Principal Characters were, James Farmer Jr., Samantha Booke, Henry Lowe and Melvin Tolson. And the Minor pr Supporting Characters were, Hamilton Burgess, James Farmer Sr., Pearl Farmer, Ruth Tolson, and Sheriff Dozier.
4. THEME
The theme of the story was centralized on the liberation of the African- American people on the United States of America from the Racial Discrimination, that at the time was being the center of great tension betwen the race in the late 1930's.
5. SETTING
The setting was centered in Wiley College in west Marshall, Texas and also in Southern California and eventually also in Boston where they have been competing with debaters from Harvard.
6. POINT OF VIEW
The source of the story was from the 1st person.
