In the movie Coach Carter, directed by Thomas Carter, Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) accepts the job as a basketball coach at his old high school in a poor neighbourhood. With his tough rules and academic discipline, he is determined to change the team’s poor attitude and disrespectful behaviour. He succeeds in setting the players on a winning streak, but when their grades start to drop dramatically, Carter locks them out of the gym and shuts down their championship season. When his actions were criticized by the players and their parents, he sticks to his guns, and shows the boys that they need good values for their futures and eventually finds out that he has affected them more than he ever expected. Humans can change each other’s attitude with time and patience; humans can pursue their dreams if they are willing to. This movie shows that we can change our attitudes in life despite the environment that we are placed in and even if the odds are against us, if we keep on pushing through and let our ambitions take over our actions.
