1. Title and Composer- American History X
Type of text- Movie
Source- 1998 New Line Productions
2. Brief summary of content
The film American History X, is about a former neo-Nazi, who tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
The story begins with Danny, played by Edward Furlong, the younger brother. Danny is writing his family history as an assignment for Dr. Sweeny, the school principal played by Avery Brooks. A black man of impeccable courage and conviction and Dannys paper is part of what Sweeny calls "American History X"
His older brother whom he admires, imitates and tries to be like, Derek Vinyard is played by Edward Norton, an intelligent young man. Derek was once a kind and calm adolescent, but because of his fathers death, a fireman killed while trying to put out a fire at a suspected drug den, becomes racist and full of hatred.
Dereks decline into the world of disillusion and hate, known as White Supremacy, soon lead him to becoming the leader for a gang of local white kids. While the local movement grows, Derek's inner journey pollutes him with more and more hate. This moral deterioration hits climax, when Derek is convicted manslaughter for killing three Afro-Americans who try to steal the truck his father gave him. In jail he is shown the error of his ways, through the hard way.
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