Freedom Writers

even empowered. When watching a movie like the Freedom Writers one can not help but feel some type of way. This movie can take it’s watcher on a trip in just 123 minutes. Movies are made to enrapture the viewer and have them asking for more. The Freedom Writers sure did that. This movie forces the viewer to have emotions running rampant throughout their brain. The Freedom Writers is also jam packed with life lessons. Even though the Freedom Writers was released in 2007 it has many lessons about…

In regards to the film, The Freedom Writers, it took one person, in this case, a teacher, Erin Gruwell, to stand up to the bureaucracy of the school system and provide students with respect, trust and hope. Though others feel students like the one in classroom 203 should be punished than…

The extremes of gang violence and racism in our country were brought to light in the movie “The Freedom writers.” The main characters of this movie were just students, starting high school as freshmen. Ironically, they had already faced challenges in their lives that most people could never even imagine. This resulted in their tough outlook on life, and involvement in gang violence. To add to the mess, the gangs were strongly divided on racial lines. This separated the students, and even brought…

they were nice, she hated all of them. “It's all about color, it's about people deciding what you deserve, about people wanting what they don't deserve. About whites thinking they own this world no matter what, you see, I hate white people.” - Freedom Writers. Through the use of Eva’s words, one can portray that she feels as if whites think they have superiority or the right to do whatever they want because of their color. One can easily pick up that this is a personal matter that has to do with…

person or group to control or cause harm. This can include intimidation, humiliation and victimisation based on sex, race, disability or transgender. We know that Bullying behaviour can be verbal, physical, social and psychological. In the movie ‘Freedom Writers’, the main protagonist Eva, is severely affected by bullying from her own father and his gang. Throughout her adolescent years, her family and gang pressured her to live life to benefit them not Eva. She strongly believed it was better…

life. We use it to express ourselves, study, mail and so much more. I think that aside from writing changes us constantly, I think it can also change others who read your ideas and stories. It was cool to see how the students in the movie, “The freedom writers”, changes their behavior as they write their diary. I think that writing can give you an insight of where you are in life and what is really going on on your everyday basis. Sometimes when you write your own personal experience, you can…

directly to the gang violence that is happening now. One movie in particular has captured the attention of many movie lovers. This movie is called Freedom Writers and it starts out by replaying different scenes of gang violence and police violence against groups of people. The movie is written by Richard LaGravenese and it was produced in 2007 (“Freedom Writers”). It is about a teacher named Erin Gruwell, who was played by Hillary Swank, who gets her first job at a school called Woodrow Wilson…

The movie I chose to analyze this week is The Freedom Writers, and I rented the movie online through Amazon Video. The movie and true story, The Freedom Writers, is about a White high school English teacher named Erin Gruwell who is a new teacher at Woodrow Wilson High school, a low performing and troubled school in Long Beach, California. The story is told in 1994, only two years after the civil unrest and race war after the 1992. Los Angeles riots. Her English class is filled with all minority…

means. Eva: It's a sign of respect... for you. All of Ms. Gruwell students show respect her because she was the only person every in there life to support them and show that education is the key to be succeed in life. IN the Yosso text and the freedom writers there where some kind of support that help the children’s out in order to succeed. With anyone support you then you can be successful in live all you need is support, and it prove in both the text and the film that they bet the school…

"Freedom Writers" Banned Book What is a banned book? A banned book is a challenged book that has actually been removed from the shelves. According to several sources, this book has been prohibited from most high schools for the following reasons: drug references, violence, and profanity. The literary merit of this book outweighs the reasons for the book being prohibited from book shelves. Although I can understand the reasoning behind the prohibition of this book, I feel teens are mature…