![]() We can examine the book and the film to see how the legend has evolve and been changed. Analyzing this legend could be used as a powerful tool in teaching and learning about the Civil Rights Movement.Īnother way to integrate not only the book of John Henry and the Disney film of John Henry. Published in the Civil Right era, John Henry's legend could be seen as motivating, and empowering for many African Americans. While written in the pre-Civil Rights, John Henry's work on the railroad is seen as brave and strong. One way to integrate this story into a classroom could be to analyze this story as it related to the era it was written about and the era it was published in. John Henry is depicted as a strong, powerful force of nature that was a a driving force in this story. Like most legends, John Henry has a simple plot with a clear moral and little character development. Since it was published during the Civil Rights era, the legend was an empowering history of how strong African Americans could be. John Henry is the perfect example of a legend, as a book published 1965, this story was a publication of a legend most likely passed down through the word of mouth. Oh well, everyone has their own opinions. The nephew gave this 2 stars and the niece 3 stars. The nephew didn’t care about beating a machine as he wants to live with robots and the niece thought it was pointless that John Henry died at the end. You had to turn each frame as it was read aloud by a tape player that pinged when it was time to turn the film. I remember being in grade school and John Henry was extremely popular among kids and everyone wanted to check out this story and watch the films on the story they used to show. I do love Keats artwork, but I thought some pages were amazing and some drawings simply ok. ![]() It’s also about industrialization and we see the economic hardships it has caused this country and nations of the world as more people are put out of work. The truth about this is John Henry won the battle, but the machine won the war. When scraping rail today all you have to do is cut through the ball and down into the web a inch or so and pick it up with a crane and it snaps straight down from the torch cut.This is a powerful story, still. The trains run just as fast then as they do today. It is cool how back in the good old days they had thing down to a science. Where they may need to cut rail would have been in a switch. Remember back then the rail was jointed every 39' to 40' so if a rail broke the would change to the hole rail no cutting needed. I'm talking small rail as being 90# and 100# now the big rail is 133# 136# 141# Have to remember the rail was a lot smaller back then only in the last 35 years they have using big rail. The old heads said it was a clean cut also. I bet the workers could do this very quickly. Set it up on a cross tie hang the end over and hit the end down with a sledge. I work track maintenance for a railroad and the old heads say take a cold chisel and score a cut line across the top and sides of the rail. (He's 94) He said they would just score the top of the rail and drop it across another rail section and it would break off. A coworker of mine's father retired from the railroad a long time ago.
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