Stagecoach Book Vs Movie

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Community is a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common interests, and goals: In the movie Stagecoach directed by John Ford centers a prostitute, a banker, a whiskey drummer, a doctor, an officer's wife, a local marshall, a gambler, the driver, and outlaw Ringo Kid. They all go on a journey on their own risk traveling through territory with a fear of an Apache raiding party lead by Geronimo attacking them. Although the characters have many differences and come from all different walks of life they are seen as the center of the movie because their travel is everyone else's experiences through the trip. They all have there own little opening scene about them that tells about what their past and present life is like. Lastly the movie is centered on everyone in the community of the stagecoach because of their interest and goals lead to them creating new friendships, helping …show more content…

Mallory is about to have her baby. It really brings them all together to get over their difference and help Mrs. Mallory give birth and Doc Boone sober up before becoming the medical lead on the birthing. This tightens the community and makes them more centered to each other cause now they can all relate to something that happened on the trip that was intense. This also brings more in common with Peacock the whiskey salesmen because he’s a father of five wanting to get back to his family in Kansas and has been through raising children and birthing many times. His wisdom and kindness to the situation brings him to have more of a fatherly figure stance. Lastly in the movie they all are attacked by the apache’s kinda how their all attacked in a way by the original western town they came from, because of drinking, pregnancy, prostitution, crime, embezzling, gambling. “Two people save from civilization”, like Doc Boone said although it’s kinda like almost all of them were making them the center of the

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