The Last Castle

The movie The Last fort provides manakins of good attractership and bad leaders. Colonel Winter, the warden of a military is the example of bad leadership, go General Irwin, a prisoner at Winters prison is an example of good leadership. The film illustrates that a leader does non have to have a technical leadership position to get into followers, and how two leaders who have differing viewpoints on leadership cannot exist in the uniform space without conflict. Henri Nouwen, in his book on leadership In the Name of Jesus, says power offers an easy substitute for the hard labour of lovemakingeasier to control people than love people. In The Last Castle, we see the note of Irwins and Winters leadership styles in regards to the prisoners. Winter constantly reads the inmates files or so the crimes they committed in revisal to instigate himself that they are capable of violence and so he will not always feel compassion for them. He is practical and takes no interest into th eir personal feelings, and he refuses to ever recognize how they could change over time. Irwin, on the other hand, chooses to ignore the inmates pasts and focuses on who they are in the present.He recognizes that no matter what they have done, they have a good side as well. In addition, Irwin treats the inmates as men, instead of treating them like cloddish children. In the film, Irwin takes interest in a prisoner named Aguilar. Aguilar is not well wish because he is Hispanic. In addition, he has a speech impediment so others recollect he is dumb. He has no assumption but when Irwin starts treating him like a soldier, and not like a worthless man, he gains his impudence. Irwin recognizes that Aguilar is smart and knows masonry so he puts Aguilar in charge of building the w every(prenominal).Since Irwin treated Aguilar like a man and a soldier, Aguilar gained confidence and was able to himself become the leader of the skirt-building project. In building the wall, the prisoners were building themselves a synecdochical castle to protect themselves from the unfair practices of Winter. Irwin inspires the men to build the wall to be something that is their own. Irwin suggests that they all work together in order to build a better, stronger wall. Building the wall was something the prisoners did on their own, without the directive of the warden.