Compare And Contrast The Movie And Freedom Writers

The movie “Freedom Writers” is based on a true story. Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell plays an inspirational teacher at Wilson High School. She is ready to take on the teaching world as she steps inside Wilson High School for her first day. Her class, varied with teenagers of different ethnic backgrounds, wants nothing more than to just get through the day. African Americans, Latinos, Asians, gang members, and much more are from poor neighborhoods, that all share a similar hatred for each other. On the first day of teaching she is very scared and unsure, but she knows she has to stop the racism in the class as well as their attitude towards life. Despite her students' persistent refusal to participate

“Freedom Writers” is a powerful film that is based on a true story about a teacher named Erin Gruwell, who struggles to connect with her students to make them believe that they can succeed in life, and to show them that their lives, experiences, and knowledge is valuable, all while attempting to unify them and to overcome racial segregation and gang violence that is part of their daily lives. Gruwell focuses on introducing the concepts of discipline and obedience in her classroom. She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries, in which they talk about their experiences of being abused, seeing their friends die, and being evicted; Gruwell refers to the composition books as “The Freedom Writers Diary.”

The film that I chose to analyze is The Freedom Writers. This movie is about Erin Gruwell portrayed by Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank, whose passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino and Asian gang members who hate her even more than they hate each other. Erin begins to understand that these kids are not delinquents and gives them something they never had from a teacher before—respect. For the first time, these teens experience a hope that they actually matter. Defined by O’Hair and Wiemann in the text, Real Communication: An Introduction (2012), the following concepts are exemplified in the film as:

Freedom Writers is a movie based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell. The movie was directed by Richard LaGravenese and it was released in 2007. This movie discusses significant themes such as stereotyping and racial discrimination but most important the power of tolerance and understanding. The purpose of this movie is to promote the message that knowledge is power and in a world filled with disparities where hundreds of ethnic groups convey and interact humans are obliged to accept and tolerate the differences that define each person. This film is a perfect example of how these rhetorical components are used to create an effective argument. The director of the movie as well as the characters build their

The film, Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese in 2007, demonstrates an abundance of emotions, such as bravery and sorrow. The author, Erin Gruwell, shares the stories of her students who have experienced things from gun violence to emotional abuse, to show that the students will unite if they are understood, respected, and given an opportunity. The movie Freedom Writers is an empowering film as it shows that by taking advantage of the opportunities in one’s life, they can achieve many things.

In the movie, The Freedom Writers Mrs. Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank) plays a role of a dedicated teacher who did all she could, to help her students learn to respect themselves and each other. She has little idea of what she's getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach, California. Her students were divided along racial lines and had few aspirations beyond basic survival. Mrs. Gruwell was faced with a big challenge when a group of freshmen students showed her nothing but disrespect which made it hard for her to communicate, teach and understand them. However, Erin Gruwell was determined that no matter the cost she would teach her students not only

In the film Freedom Writers, there was a young teacher named Erin Gruwell was assigned to teach at Woodrow Wilson high school in Los Angeles. Erin was first time teaching, and she has no idea what kind of students she will teach. The students were underprivileged. Boys and girls were taking drugs, carrying guns everywhere and the spend most of their lives in prison or hiding from the police and they are fourteen and fifteen years old. Erin didn’t know that the students were suffering throughout the lives; she helped them and changed their lives . erin wa loyal to her students, she worked 3 jobs to support her students and to teach them how to be successful independently in their lives. She turned their lives into a better place and the successful

The Freedom Writers tells the story of an unusual yet brilliant and quite enthusiastic new high school teacher who takes a chance on teaching an English class filled with students that are considered both troubled and incompetent regarding their academic performance or even in their day-to-day

This film reminded me of the blue eye, brown eye experiment in how if we influence children to believe a certain way about people they do it without realizing the damage. And in the “Freedom Writers” instead of being the blue eye, brown eye experiment the parents or parental authority influences the kids to discriminate other race. But what the teacher does is show the students how discrimination is a hateful action. Erin teaches the students the different discrimination that happened around the world that ended in death and jail. Erin taught the students to be in other peoples shoes but also to become a

Erin Gruwell is the author of the book The Freedom Writers Diary, it was published by Random House in 1999. The book described Erin Gruwells first year as an English school teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. It featured her trials and difficulties within her “unteachable” class.

The movie freedom writer will not catch your eye in the first place but once you started watching it you will be excited what would be the ending, what will happen to the students, who are gang members and not taking their class seriously. Every student in the class 203 has their own story that will really make you cry if you'll understand it. Many Students inside the room 203 don't have a sense of direction on what they really want, and they don't care about it.

“Freedom Writers” is based on a true story about Erin Gruwell, a first time teacher who given a class of underperforming students. The students have experienced gang and racial violence which is displayed throughout the movie. I am going to focus on the leadership behavior of Erin Gruwell through her style of coaching. Through her leadership of coaching her students, she was able to open their eyes to a whole new perspective of the world that there is not just gang and racial violence, but there is something special about each and every one of them.

‘Richard La Gravense’s’ movie ‘Freedom Writer’ is based on a true story of a teacher and one hundred and fifty students of Woodro Wilson High School. This story is taken by the Eva’s diary, a true story of a girl, who suffers a lot in her life because of the racial riot. In the movie all the students are affected by the gang violence and racial tension in their life. This movie shows the effort of the teacher, who reconciles all the student in-spite of big racial wall. To erase the gap between the students she ruins her private life and makes them reconcile.

The movie seems to only follow a few different character’s lives from the book. In the book the students tell the story and the teacher is secondary. Erin Gruwell, the young white middle-class teacher assigned to teach the no-hope children who society has given up on. The movie "Freedom Writers" is based on the true story of Erin Gruwell. Erin is a new high school teacher whose first assignment after being a student teacher is teaching freshman English to a class of angry and disinterested white, black, Latino and Asian students in Long Beach, California after the Rodney King riots in 1992. Passionate about teaching and determined to make a difference,

The Freedom Writers is a movie directed by Richard LaGravenese that showed a teacher who used her position as a way to improve the lives of students who did not particularly have the best opportunities (Plot Summary). In the film, Mrs. Gruwell acts as a mentor to a group of actors that portrayed troublesome lives and issues at home. From daily fights between friend groups at school to drive-by shootings within gangs, the kids have seen it all. Mrs. Gruwell focuses on these hardships that the students face and uses them as a way to create coursework that is relatable to the lives of the students while promoting a safe learning environment. Not only did she create an interesting way for the kids to learn inside of the classroom, but she also went out of her way to enforce principles that were from outside sources. For example: Mrs. Gruwell created a lesson plan that involved her students writing letter to the woman who hid Anne Frank during the Holocaust, Miep Gies. After students had written their letters, Mrs. Gruwell was able to find and transport Mrs. Gies to the school in order to have an in-person interaction between her and the students. This proved to be one of the most impressive parts of Mrs. Gruwell’s career because the students were able to meet someone that they truly expressed gratitude towards. In a similar way, Mrs. Gruwell acted as a figure that the students were able to look up to and place trust in. Mrs. Gruwell was more than just a teacher to these kids;