Department of Education of Puerto Rico

Yauco Vocational and Technical High School

English 12th or 11th

Title: Men of Honor Story Analysis

Wendel Joel Hernandez Perez

AoM
11-7
Mr. Gonzalez, Nathaniel
Table of content
Introduction…………………………………………………………………Page 1
Film facts…………………………………………………………………...Page 2
Genre……………………………………………………………………….Page 3
Introduction
The film starts with Billy Sunday, with cuts and bruises, next to a
person he saved not long ago, as he wanted that person to call him “Master
Chief.” Then we’re introduced to the main protagonist, Carl Brashear, a
black kid, dreaming that he jumps into the water and begins swimming in a
lake and exploring it, hinting of him wanting to become a marine. Carl
wakes up to get ready for school, as his dad, Mac Brashear, a
sharecropper that is working with Mules, talks to Carl about how he wants
Carl to not end up like him, he wanted him to be a successful man. A time
skip occurs to when Carl is an adult, his mom calls him to go to the bus,
where he would be taken to the Navy, they have a heartfelt moment just
before he leaves. Carl and other black people are in a kitchen cooking for
the white Navy workers, as Carl sees them jumping in the sea to swim, carl
gets an idea and jumps in as well, the Chief orders someone to get Carl, as
he looks like he’s the fastest swimmer there. After so, Carl is shown on a
cell, where a chief says that he should be a swimmer on the Navy, where a
helicopter breaks down, and Sunday rescues the pilot from the water, but
he’s already dead, when the second diver falls from a platform and is
drowning, Sunday jumps in and rescues him. Fast forward to Chief Sunday
in the Hospital, where the doctor tells him that if he goes diving again, he’ll
die, Sunday gets mad and starts rampaging, then people halt him, then
Sunday is with the council, where they tell him that he will be reassigned for
a training position, where Carl is going to be in. Carl waits for Sunday to let
him in, in nighttime, Sunday sprays Carl with water for training, and on
morning, he trains everyone and gives exams.

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Films facts

The film’s name is “Men of Honor”

The movie came out in the year 2000
As a new day dawns, Carl decides to walk around town, where he
gets flowers and goes to the library, where he meets Jo, where she is
studying for medicine, he asks her if he could help her study, but she says
no, he leaves flowers around and starts studying, Jo walks to him and then
helps him study. They study for days, as time passes, and the divers has a
test where they must patch a hole on a boat and fill it with air, the boat
starts rolling off a ledge and Douglas’ air hose gets stuck, Carl goes down
and saves him, but Rourke leaves because he was scared. They appear on
land, as Master Chief gives a medal to Rourke for saving Douglas, even
though the one who saved him was Carl. He calls his parents, as his
mother has bad news for him, his father had passed away, Carl starts
crying, as it gets to nighttime, he’s looking out to sea, after so, he calls Jo,
and tells her to go where he is, as a car pulls over next to him, with Gwen
Sunday, the wife of Billy Sunday, which is upset because her husband is
drinking in their anniversary, she talks with Carl, convinces him to
challenge the Master Chief and walks with him inside the bar. Sunday talks
trash about Carl, and he challenges Sunday, where they must hold their
breaths for as long as possible, and if Carl wins, Snowhill comes back in
diving, but if Sunday wins, Carl will have to leave. Jo arrives when the
challenge starts. Brashear wins, and a car crash is heard outside, Gwen
had crashed her car because she was upset, as Carl talks to Jo, which she
says that she’s going to move out to Bellevue, she gets on a taxi to leave
as Carl runs after the taxi and asks Jo to marry him, she gets out of the taxi
and hugs him. Sunday has a conversation with Mr. Pappy, his superior
about Carl, and Pappy doesn’t want Carl to pass, and Sunday tells Carl
what he said, and for him to not come to the final exam the next day. Carl
goes anyways, as the exam is to go underwater, locate and assemble a
flange, the divers go down and locate their work light, and then locate their
project. The divers request their toolbags, but a worker breaks Carl’s
toolbag to make him fail, several divers finish while Carl still works on it, Jo
goes to the Dive station, and Pappy tells Sunday to leave him die down at
the sea, but Sunday tells the sailors to pull him up. Carl finishes the project
and passes. Mr. Pappy ships Sunday out and fired.
A timeskip to a New Year’s party where Jo tells Carl that she’s
pregnant, and Billy picks a fight with the diver that he saved at the start of
the movie. Carl now is in a mission where he must get a bomb before the
Soviets get it, a soviet submarine comes, and Carl’s rope gets hit my it, he
survives and locates the bomb. The sailors pull up the bomb, but the cable
breaks and Brashear pushes two people to the side, saving them, but the
cost being his own left leg, he faints and wakes up in the hospital. He wants
his leg to be amputated and that he could go back on duty. He starts
training and then he sees Chief Sunday, and they talk about how Brashear
will be put on retirement. Sunday talks with the council to give Brashear
time to train, and they agree, and Billy trains Carl over the course of 4
weeks. They go to court where Brashear must use the diver suit and take
12 steps forward unassisted, Sunday comes in and gives Carl a
motivational speech. Carl takes the 12 steps and goes back on duty with
everyone happy for him for going back on duty as the world’s first ever
black man to be a diver.