English 10 Essay
Three Choices In Life
In everyday life situations we are arisen with problems that may challenge us. Reacting to these challenges, people take many different routes. How we respond to these bumps in the road is what defines us as individuals. In Freedom Writers we can see how the students face difficulties in their lives and in school; and how they choose to react to those challenges. The students of the film Freedom Writers choose to respond to challenge in three different ways; they give up, give in, or give it all they have.
The first way we see the students answer to the challenges faced in Mrs. Gruwell’s class is they give up. We will always have the quitters and unmotivated in life , but these students did not give up for any other reason than they saw school as a place that would not help them achieve anything in life. School is deemed as a place to go during the day that was mandatory under law, and enforced by parole officers. “Nobody cares what I do, why should I bother coming to school.” (Tito, a student of Mrs.Gruwell) This quote shows that the students could care less about school and that they had no respect for Mrs. Gruwell or her authority as a teacher. They express that nobody cares about them in life, so why should they care about themselves. The student give up on their own lives because they have never had anyone encourage and believe in them. “At sixteen, I've seen more bodies than a mortician. Every time I step out my door I face the risk of being shot. To the rest of the world it's just another dead body on a street corner. They don't know that he was my friend.” (Jamal, a student) In response to all death and horror the students have faced in their short lives, it is only natural for them to give up in life. For the students to be able to cope they give in to even more hopeless endeavors. They choose to join gangs to feel accepted and a part of a whole, so they can make sense of their life. They have the mindset that it is their
In everyday life situations we are arisen with problems that may challenge us. Reacting to these challenges, people take many different routes. How we respond to these bumps in the road is what defines us as individuals. In Freedom Writers we can see how the students face difficulties in their lives and in school; and how they choose to react to those challenges. The students of the film Freedom Writers choose to respond to challenge in three different ways; they give up, give in, or give it all they have.
The first way we see the students answer to the challenges faced in Mrs. Gruwell’s class is they give up. We will always have the quitters and unmotivated in life , but these students did not give up for any other reason than they saw school as a place that would not help them achieve anything in life. School is deemed as a place to go during the day that was mandatory under law, and enforced by parole officers. “Nobody cares what I do, why should I bother coming to school.” (Tito, a student of Mrs.Gruwell) This quote shows that the students could care less about school and that they had no respect for Mrs. Gruwell or her authority as a teacher. They express that nobody cares about them in life, so why should they care about themselves. The student give up on their own lives because they have never had anyone encourage and believe in them. “At sixteen, I've seen more bodies than a mortician. Every time I step out my door I face the risk of being shot. To the rest of the world it's just another dead body on a street corner. They don't know that he was my friend.” (Jamal, a student) In response to all death and horror the students have faced in their short lives, it is only natural for them to give up in life. For the students to be able to cope they give in to even more hopeless endeavors. They choose to join gangs to feel accepted and a part of a whole, so they can make sense of their life. They have the mindset that it is their