The Freedom Writers Diary

Name: Raquel Dewald Book: The Freedom Writers Diary Author: The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell Genre: Nonfiction SPOILER WARNING The Freedom Writers Diary Report Plot Summary: Mrs. Gruwell is a new english teacher at Wilson High School. The school is located in a town with a bad reputation for gangsters. When she was a Student teacher, she found a racist caricature of a “bad” Student, Sharaud. She claims this was the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust, but no one knows what the Holocaust is; they just know the violence and discrimination of their everyday lives. So Mrs. Gruwell shifts the lessons to teach about tolerance. When she is done with her role as Student teacher, she gets her first real teaching job teaching “at-risk” freshmen.…

In The Freedom Writers directed by Richard LaGravenese, Eva is able to “go against her people” because of what she has learned in school and through her experiences, as well as through the relationships she has made. Mrs. Gruwell assigns Eva two books in school including Durango Street and The Diary of Anne Frank including violence and gangs. She can relate to them and gains the understanding of the Holocaust with the Nazis killing many innocent Jews to “protect their own people” just because…

Freedom Writers is a 2007 film based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by a teacher named Erin Gruwell. The story was based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. In the beginning of the film, it showed violence between the law enforcement and protestors. A protestor was holding up a sign that said “No Justice. No Peace.” in Los Angeles, California in 1992. The film continued to show facts such as over 120 murders in Long Beach in the months following the…

strong again”. This hopefulness is one of the reasons Anne Frank from “The Diary of Anne Frank” and Eva Benitez from “Freedom Writers” have much in common even though they may have lived half a century apart from each other. Both of these people were powerful young women who found ways to overcome their situation, though it may be difficult when others are not doing the right thing. Their triumphs show that anyone can make it through a tough situation. “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Freedom…

The Freedom Writers: A Multicultural Approach on Education Imagine walking into your classroom for your first day of teaching at a new school. You’re eager, excited, and more than ready to continue to do what you love. You’re anticipating the very second that the classroom will be filled with students, your students. Unfortunately the picture perfect classroom you had in your head is not what you’re staring at in real life, but instead a self-segregating class filled with “at risk” students…

In the movie Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese and produced in 2007, set in Long Beach, California, is about a high school English teacher, played by Hilary Swank, who sets out to unite her freshman class and see past the racial borders that they grew up dealing with (“The Freedom Writers”). The students (main characters played by April Lee Hernandez, Jason Finn, Kristin Herrera, Jamal Hill, ect.) describe their lives as war, each of their racial backgrounds are at war with the…

Freedom Writers In the movie “Freedom Writers” (2007), a female teacher tries to make a racial difference by separating students in a class occupied by black, Latino and Asian high school freshmen. Her markings lead to a clear indication of diversity and a sense of racial disparity within the society. As part of the review of freedom writers’ movie, I will discuss racial disparity and diversity issue while trying to connect the content of the movie to the current state of the society. As such,…

First of all freedom writers is a movie and a book based on a true story.Ms.Gruwell was a teacher from wilson high school.Gruwell gave 150 Students dairies to write about their lives.In these dairies,talks about gang violence,abuse,the legal system and about their personal lives./In freedom writers there is a difference between the book and the film in perspective ways. For me it looks like the movie shows the life around Ms.Gruwell. In the book they don't really talk about her life, living…

The film Freedom Writers incorporates various elements of intercultural communication that were discussed throughout the semester, which is why I chose to analyze this film and focus on how the concepts discussed in this course are portrayed in the film. This film is centered on gangs and racial tensions so many elements of intercultural communication are touched upon and integrated into the central theme. Three major issues I chose to examine in this film were the concepts of co-culture,…

Critical Theory, while optimistic, is an extremist way to deal with comprehension and endeavoring to change the social imbalances that exist. Critical Theorist are not reluctant to get their hands filthy, much like instructor Erin Gruwell in the motion picture Freedom Writers. In light of a genuine story, the motion picture demonstrates the excursion of a youthful educator as she endeavors to inspire a gathering of students who have been marked "at-hazard." These students originate from an…