词条 | The Lords of Discipline |
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| name = The Lords of Discipline | title_orig = | translator = | image = Image:The Lords of Discipline.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Pat Conroy | illustrator = | cover_artists = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | release_date = 1980 | media_type = Print (hardback & paperback) | pages = 499 | isbn = 0-395-29462-2 | congress= | oclc= | preceded_by = The Great Santini | followed_by = The Prince of Tides }}The Lords of Discipline is a 1980 novel by Pat Conroy that was later adapted in a 1983 film of the same name.[1] The story centers around Will McLean, who is in his fourth year at the fictional Carolina Military Institute is Charleston, South Carolina. Will’s experiences are heavily based on Pat Conroy’s own experiences at The Citadel, a real military college in Charleston. The story is narrated in first person by Will, who attends the Institute between 1963 and 1967. Will recounts his years at the Institute, especially focusing on the school's brutal culture of hazing and abuse. After discovering a secret society that convinces freshmen deemed unworthy of graduating from the Institute to drop out by any means necessary, Will and his friends' graduations and lives are threatened.[2] BackgroundAlthough Conroy drew on his experiences as a cadet at The Citadel[3], he has said that the story is not based on his life or that of any other graduate of a military academy and is fictionalized.[4] Conroy's novel received criticism from some Citadel alumni. Conroy was ostracized by his alma mater and effectively banned from campus for over 30 years after publishing the novel. In 2001, Conroy was invited back to campus where he gave the commencement address and was given a parade.[5] PlotWill McLean, returning to the Carolina Military Institute in Charleston, South Carolina an unknown number of years after his graduation, tells the story of his life at the institute. In 1966, Will was an English major on a basketball scholarship, in his fourth and final year at the Institute. Will is not interested in a military career, and had only attended as a deathbed promise to his father. He is well liked and his professors and peers recognize him for his integrity and his sense of fairness, although he is also sarcastic and independent. Will struggles to fit in the strict military environment, but finds solace in his three roommates, who have become his closest friends: Tradd St. Croix, the son of an upper class Charlestonian family and two brawny Italian-American boys from the North, Dante "Pig" Pignetti and Mark Santoro. They all look forward to graduation, although Will's friends will head off to fight in the Vietnam War, which Will is against. Colonel Berrineau, the commandant of cadets who is commonly known as The Bear, asks the Will to look out for the Institute's first black cadet, Tom Pearce, knowing that Will is the only liberal in the student body. Will also begins a secret relationship with Annie Kate Gervais, a girl from an upper class Charlestonian family who has become pregnant from a boy who refused to marry her, though their relationship is doomed because Will is Irish-American and Catholic. Will attempts to help a freshman, Poteete, who is struggling with the plebe system, the brutal hazing and abuse experienced by freshmen at the Institute, but he kills himself. In an extended flashback, Will then describes his own plebe year. Will learns that the only way to survive is to bond closely with the other members of his class against the cadre. Many of Will's classmates quit due to the brutal hazing. However, a recruit named Bobby Bentley, who has a problem with urinating on himself due to the stress of hazing, refuses to quit. Conventional hazing methods fail to break Bentley, causing Will's class to come together, making Will's cadre the subject of ridicule with other upperclassmen. Near the end of the year, Will's freshman class is recognized as cadets, and the hazing ends. Some time before this, Bobby Bentley is taken off campus and withdraws from the Institute the following day for unknown reasons. Back in Will's senior year, he hears rumors of The Ten, a mysterious Institute secret society that ensures certain cadets, deemed unacceptable to "wear the ring" (that is, to be a graduate of the Institute, denoted by wearing of a class ring), are run out by any means necessary. Will discovers that the Ten are real and are trying to run Pearce out try and keep the Institute all white. Meanwhile, Will and the other seniors are given their Institute rings in preparation for their graduation, and Will wins the final basketball game of his career. Annie Kate's baby is stillborn and she rejects Will, wanting to forget all about the time she spent pregnant. Will looks further into the Ten and reunites with Bobby Bentley, who reveals that he was spirited away to a house, and was threatened and tortured to the point that he agreed to quit. Will, with the help of Mark and Pig, kidnap a member of the Ten and interrogate him on a secluded railroad track until he reveals the location of the house, which is located on General Durrell's property. When Pearce is kidnapped by the Ten, Will goes to the house but is discovered. He is rescued by Mark and Pig, but their identities are now known by the Ten. Pearce is intimidated into silence, and the Ten attempt to have Mark, Pig and Will thrown out of the school. Pig is caught on an honor code violation due to the Ten and loses the honor court case, despite the help of his roommates. After he is drummed out of school, he throws himself in front of a train, killing himself. The Ten then attempt to get Will and Mark kicked out of school for excess demerits. Just as they are about to be thrown out, Will discovers that Tradd's father was a member of the Ten. He and Mark read his journals and discover the names of all current and former members. They also discover that Tradd is a member of the Ten and had been feeding the Ten information the whole time, and that Tradd is also the father of Annie Kate's baby. Will confronts Tradd and ends their friendship. Will then blackmails the General with the information on the Ten into letting him and Mark graduate, and The Bear is fired for helping them. Will reveals that Mark is killed some time after graduation in Vietnam. Will and Mark graduate from the Institute. Characters
ReceptionThe novel received generally positive reviews.[6] Film adaptation{{Main|The Lords of Discipline (film)}}The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1983 film of the same name, starring David Keith as Will McLean and Robert Prosky as Colonel "The Bear" Berrineau.[1] The film version took place entirely in McLean's senior year, when he was asked to protect Pearce. Several plot points were changed for the film:
References1. ^1 {{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=The Lords of Discipline (1983) RODDAM'S 'LORDS OF DISCIPLINE'|author=Maslin, Janet|authorlink=Janet Maslin|date=February 18, 1983|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9506E4DA143BF93BA25751C0A965948260}} {{Pat Conroy}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lords Of Discipline, The}}2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-book-club-nicholas-sparks-chooses-pat-conroys-the-lords-of-discipline-1476298283|title=WSJ Book Club: Nicholas Sparks Chooses Pat Conroy’s ‘The Lords of Discipline’|last=Feldman|first=Lucy|date=2016-10-13|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2019-03-14|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}} 3. ^{{Cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1986-12-26/news/mn-491_1_citadel-officials|title=Outrage Refuses to Die Down in Scandal Over Hazing of Black Cadet at Citadel|last=Treadwell|first=David|date=1986-12-26|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2019-03-06|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}} 4. ^{{Cite book|title=The Lords of Discipline|last=Pat|first=Conroy|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=1980|isbn=978-0395294628|location=Boston|pages=|oclc=6421594}} 5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/sports/ncaabasketball/03citadel.html|title=Time Heals Rift as Citadel Lets Conroy Back in the Fold|last=McGrath|first=Charles|date=2009-03-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-06|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/pat-conroy-4/the-lords-of-discipline/|title=The Lords of Discipline {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|last=|first=|date=6 October 1980|website=Kirkus Reviews|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}} 9 : 1960s in fiction|1980 American novels|American novels adapted into films|Books by Pat Conroy|Charleston, South Carolina in fiction|Houghton Mifflin books|Novels set in South Carolina|Roman à clef novels|The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina |
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