Critical Summary Of Freedom Writers

I have read many interesting diaries while reading “The Freedom Writers Diary”, but the diary that stuck to me the most was diary number 127.I am going to give advice to the teenager that wrote this diary.This diary has made me think twice and not one other diary in the book has made me do that.This diary is about how a young teen recently realizes that she was lesbian after her best friend tells her that she loved her.Once I kept reading I read she wasn’t excited to be lesbian because she thought to herself “How would they treat us?Would we still be welcomed in our little social group?”.I'm not saying that I have been through that situation but what I am saying is that people should never think about how other people treat them or if they

Intro/Central Theme: Students in urban schools often lead hectic and complex lives outside of school, as do county and country students but in a different way. So, it is not a surprise that students are bored out the tit by their classwork, especially for the poor kids that get stuck learning grade school level grammar in remedial, low-performing, basic or whatever demeaning name educators hypothesize will make students feel less stupid, even though students are never too stupid to realize that they have been put on hold in the lowest available class, because the school system has decided that they cannot handle appropriately gauged schoolwork, and they eventually grow to accept such treatment as normal. A lack of faith is not what such

The Freedom Writers is an emotional story about a classroom of students. These students all come from different backgrounds; most of them are in gangs or grew up around gang violence. They fear for their lives every single day and do not care whatsoever about getting their education in high school. That is until one teacher, Mrs. Erin Gruwell, comes along. Mrs. Gruwell teaches them that they are not so different at all. She treats them with respect, which is much more than any other teacher has ever given them. She brings them together through her teaching and through literature. In the end, the class is one big family. The story depicts stereotyping, prejudice, and racism in their most common forms. As seen in The Freedom Writers, racism

In the 1920s, when movies were a brand new concept, people went to see the pictures in order to escape from their lives. In these movies, everything worked out in the end and they depicted happy, perfect lives. As the Depression raged on, movies were a distraction from the wear and tear of normal life. With the movie Freedom Writers, however, that is not the case. Freedom Writers tells the impossibly true story of a first-year teacher, Erin Gruwell, and the difficulties she faced in her classroom of supposed hopeless cases. In Long Beach, California, her students dealt with gang violence, drugs, and racism in their everyday lives. They lived in constant fear. The movie emphasizes how Gruwell wrestles with the public school system, motivates her students to learn, and changes their lives in the process. Directed by Richard LaGravenese, it came out in 2007 with stars such as Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, and April Hernandez gracing the screen (IMDb). In contrast to the early movies, Freedom Writers deals with issues that are still a problem today, such as a focus on the majority instead of helping students who need extra assistance or encouragement.

Eva’s soliloquy- “you can’t go against you own people, your own blood.” - Symbolism of conformity.

Freedom Writers, a movie based on a real story happened in America, has portrayed the American educational circles in 2007 vividly. Freedom Writers has an unusual mix of cast members. It combines unknown actors with famous stars (Hilary Swank and Patrick Dempsey) and real holocaust survivors. In this movie，we can see lots of changes happened in Room 203, which including Ms. Gruwell and her students. All of the teacher and the students have changed a lot since the first semester. Although it’s painful sometimes while they are changing, they won’t even stop a little bit. They just move on, and become whoever they want to be. This is the only reason why they become a legend in the field of education.

In history we had many different authors who set standards for many other authors today. We covered many different so far in the semester some of these authors have similar views and some with totally different views. We covered Jean De Crevecover, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Phillis Wheatley. These authors are Revolutionary War Era author who’s trying to answer what is an American. In history many authors try to answer this question. You get many difference answers for this question.

Finally, everyone regardless of their skill color, ethnicity, and religion deserves a place in our society. No one deserves to be discriminated against and be treated as a second class citizen. Indeed, I can say that things are changing in this generation, but we us a nation still have to do much to achieve a democracy and freedom many people risked their lives for. It very significant to stand for what we believe in, even when many cannot stand. As I watched the movie Freedom Writers Mrs. Erin stood up for what she believed in, even when many people did not believe on her work. Lastly, as an immigrant this movie showed me the dark side of American history, and also the movie showed me the way to get through obstacles which we face in life.

Henri Frederic Amiel once said, “Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.” Many times we see ourselves as lesser than what we actually could be. We may let negative perceptions of ourselves and our abilities lead us to believe we’re inferior but it is possible to become strong enough to break those mental barriers. The film Freedom Writers tells a story about at-risk freshmen students who live in toxic environments and a gang-ridden neighborhood while attending an inner-city school with racial tension on the rise. They meet their new English teacher, Erin Gruwell, who helps turn their mindset around showing them what solace there can be in picking up a pencil and writing about their hardships in a notebook. What makes this movie even more powerful is that it is based on a true story that took place in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Freedom Writers not only touches upon the ideas of tolerance, reaching one’s full potential, and the meaning of success, but further highlights the importance of perseverance and hope despite one’s circumstances.

In the movie “The Freedom Writers, newly licensed high school teacher Erin Gruwell is teaching a large group of students who are different in race and ethnicity and are participants and/or indirectly affected by gang violence in L.A. The name Freedom Writers is a name given to her students by which they were inspired by the Freedom Riders activists in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The film is based on the true story of Woodrow Wilson High School in L.A. that has given up on students such as Erin Gruwell’s English students that they are perceived by the school as hopeless students with little chance of success in life or even graduation. But Erin, alone, inspires dozens of her students into changing their perceptions of education and inspires them to break out of falling into their respective stereotypes given to them. In the film, there are struggles that Erin goes through to try to educate these teenagers such as little support from her fellow colleagues, racial stereotypes and discriminatory perceptions of her students by the staff members, hostility towards Erin from her students, racial barriers between her and her students while Erin is also having personal life problems with her marriage. But eventually, through preservation, patience, kindness, and understanding, Erin gradually makes breakthroughs with her children by giving her students journals to understand them better. Throughout the film, we learn about the background stories of the teenagers through

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.

The films “Freedom Writers” and “The Great Debaters” tell inspirational success stories of students fighting racism on their way to the top. Freedom Writers tells a story of a school filled with gang violence. One class, led by teacher Erin Gruwell, is taught to overlook their differences and unite. The Great Debaters accounts Wiley College’s debate team and how they had to fight extreme racism, on top of becoming a successful team. In both movies, discrimination based on race is clear. A group in power is looking down and taking advantage of people, based on their race. A strong teacher figure, in Erin Gruwell and Melvin Tolson, is present to push the students to their potential. Although there is racial tension and discrimination in both

The movie Freedom Writers is about Erin Gruwell who is starting her first year as an English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School. This school is racially divided with many gangs and violence erupting at any time. Ms. Gruwell was the students main subject of hate too. After having a discussion with her students about what they were feeling about their lives and situations, she took the responsibility of educating the students no matter what the cost was. She would eventually get through to the teens by passing out journals for them to write their personal life stories in. As the year went on, the students started to trust Ms.Gruwell. The next academic year, she had the students getting along with one another and reading The Diary of Ann Frank. She faced many critics within the school, but she ultimately succeeded.

The movie “Freedom Writers” is based on a true story. Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell plays an inspirational teacher at Wilson High School. Her class consists of different races and groups--African Americans, Latinos, Asians, gang members, and underprivileged students from poor neighborhoods.

In the movie, “The Freedom Writers” the qualities that made the teacher superior were that she never gave up on them she pushed them to do their best and would tell them they would amount to something in life. The students were already labeled as failures because of their past or backgrounds; they were always told that they would not amount to anything. The most important thing a teacher can do is give the child hope that someone actually does believe in them. In the EPY textbook it states that some of the qualities an effective teacher may have is that they are committed to the students and their learning, the teacher knows the subject that he/she teaches and knows how to teach the subject to the students. The teachers are responsible for