Freedom Writers Reflection

Together There is a time in everyone’s life when they have to make a choice, to remain comfortable or to step out and make a difference in the world around them. In the book Twilight Los Angeles there were many interview that where documented from the Los Angeles Riots. Hearing these different perspectives really got me thinking that maybe this books purpose was to cause the reader to see what difference they could make in there society. There are many pieces of art such as movies, TV shows, books, paintings and music that all have this same challenge. But more specifically they deal with the topics of race, class and economic status, such dose the book Twilight Los Angeles. There was one movie that I thought relatively quickly where you can see all of these topics come in to play and that movie was the 2007 film Freedom Writers. There were a lot of similarities that twilight covered as well as the film Freedom Writers. In this essay I will focus on the issues of grouping, race and social economic status. Being part of a group is something that each person longs for; it’s almost ingrained in us. That feeling of a group or maybe just a few people understanding what your goals and aspirations are and the struggles you deal with in your day to day life. But the question rises that could being part of a group limit you in trying out new things? [Insert citation here]In the movie Freedom Writers it begins with a classroom full of students that are all difference in race and gender but they all have there own groups based on their race. For example one of the first scenes in the movie all the students are coming in to the classroom and once they take a seat they all brake up in to groups based upon there race. The movie showed the animosity that they had toward other groups that were of difference race and it also showed there reasoning for not like each other. In Some cases it was because of the gang violence and others where because of how they were raised. This movie started off …show more content…
These kids started off viewing the world as a very ugly place and had a lot of hatred in there heart toward people who have hurt them in the past. But it took a loving, patience and determined teacher who believed that people can change they just need to be shown how to. Throughout the movie it showed how this English teacher shows the student the power of writhing and how to have a voice by doing it. She challenged them to not hold back in their writing and tells them the importance of letting your voice be heard. At first most students don’t believe on what she is saying is true but as they start writhing they realize that they have a lot to say. I think that this was a very important part of the movie because it showed that as young people or maybe by the color of your skin people tend to look down upon you like you don’t know what you are talking about and so they toss you opinions your thought out the window, this movies show that everyone has a voice and no ones voice is more important than