The Freedom Writers Diary

and inspire many different audiences. One specific example of this is in the movie The Freedom Writers. This movie, directed by Richard LaGravenese, is a real life example of people overcoming the circumstances they are surrounded with and making something out of themselves. This story opens up in 1994 California when a first year educator takes on a job that involves teaching the unteachable (Freedom Writers). This movie goes above and beyond because it shows not only the students struggle to achieve

Tolerance in Freedom Writers In the movie “freedom writers” kids learn to be tolerant and respect others for their color and race. It shows how these kids from the streets improve and change their perspective on color. The help from their teacher Ms. Gruwell really inspired and changed them. In their minds everything is about color. Slowly throughout the movie they change and accept others. In the beginning of the movie Erin Gruwell the new teacher is joyful and tolerant of everyone. Her husband

The students who wrote The Freedom Writer’s Diary went through a miraculous change not only in their education, but also in their outlook on life. The teenagers in this book express no interest in school and have already accepted their life of pain and failure. As the book goes on and their teacher, Ms.Gruwell, teaches them the importance of literature, and soon their whole opinion on school has changed. The kids made a real connection with the story of Anne Frank, in that she had been discriminated

In the movie, Freedom Writers, Mrs. Gruwell is a new teacher who is very excited about her first year of teaching high school, but she encounters students who do not share that same excitement, because they are looked down upon by other teachers for being “unteachable”. The students attend a very diverse high school, but rather than look at that diversity as a blessing they each felt threatened by it and were taught to defend “their own”. The socialization of the students in the movie was a direct

Freedom writers is a story about struggles and will to make a change that debuted in 2007. The lead actress in this film was Hillary swank who plays Erin Gruwell. Her impersonator acting style made her a more effective actress because not only does she portrays the character accurately, she becomes the character. With that being said, she seems to be the perfect person for the role. This statement is proven many times throughout the film. In the beginning of the film she enters a chaotic classroom

out. There are so many ways to show your freedom you could run free, you could live your life as you wanted. In the story “Boy’s Life” the author Robert McCammon portrays the theme of freedom through the use of plot and perspective, while in the story “Emancipation” the author Kate Chopit discusses the same theme of freedom through suspense and perspective. Freedom can be illustrated in various ways. In “Boy’s Life” the author illustrates the theme of freedom through the plot, or story structure. Beginning

The theme of freedom writers is learning to accept yourself and others for who they are. Marcus was a boy who didn’t care about school, he was in a gang and thought that your social statues depended on the color of your skin. He slowly started to realize that school was important, especially when he read Anne Frank because he realized that bad stuff has been happing over the years, his generation wasn’t the first to experience this. Room 203 was sort of like the Jews, they are scared to leave their

A movie called Freedom writers really impacted my life, It is about this dedicated teacher in a racially divided Los Angeles school has a class of at-risk teenagers deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their education and planning their future. She assigns reading material that relates to their lives and encourages them all to keep journals. I was impacted by this movie because I was rebellious and wasn't thinking about my future, I

Freedom writer I really like the story of Freedom Writer and love the two characters in the movie, Marcus and Ben. I’d like to begin with introducing them to you. Marcus was a high school boy who joined a gang that was fighting on the streets. His mom didn’t allow him to live with her, because he had joined a gang. Marcus lived on the street fighting for the freedom he wanted, but after he saw his friends die one by one, he began to wonder if he would die before turning eighteen. Marcus

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