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The movie Glory Road is a movie based in the 1960s when colored people were not allowed to play in any sport with whites. The coach in the movie believes he can break the color barrier and make a black and white college level basketball team that will be competitive enough to win. Bobby Jo, the young black man in the clip, does not believe that he is capable to be apart of a team like the coach is talking about. He even asked the coach "what are you smoking Mr?" because the thought of starting a black player was too much for him to grasp. The monster in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein also had a hard time believing he would ever be able to be apart of something he cared about. After being rejected from the only people he felt connected to he asked his creator, "cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? " (124). The monster often felt unwanted, just like Bobby Jo felt about the sport of basketball.
LindsayBulbs. "Glory Road- Bobby Jo Scene." Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 22 Nov. 2011. Web. 26 Feb. 2013.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With
Connections. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1999. Print.
LindsayBulbs. "Glory Road- Bobby Jo Scene." Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 22 Nov. 2011. Web. 26 Feb. 2013.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With
Connections. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1999. Print.