Freedom Writers Director: Richard LaGravenese Brief outline of story: The storyline of the movie takes place between 1992-1995. Beginning with scenes from the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Hilary Swank plays the role of Erin Gruwell‚ a new‚ excited schoolteacher who leaves the safety of her hometown‚ Newport Beach‚ to teach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach‚ a formerly high achieving school which has recently had an integration program put in place. Her enthusiasm is quickly challenged
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The students are taught how to accept one another‚ to emerge as one‚ to break free from violence‚ and to not be stereotypical. Despite knowing Woodrow Wilson High School is a recently segregated school that has ruined their reputation‚ Mrs. Erin Gruwell‚ a new white teacher excited to fulfill her dream in teaching‚ accepts her position as a freshman and sophomore English teacher. As a first-time teacher‚ she is given a group of students labeled as the “un-teachable teenagers” by the government
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Nang Kho 11/04/2011 "FREEDOM WRITER" Movie Summary The Freedom Writer Diary is based on a true story of an English teacher Erin Gruwell and her first teaching in Long Beach‚ CA. She was working with students other teachers calls them "unteachable." The teachers there was being stereotypical and believe the students in room 203 didn’t have a chance to graduate. The students were convinced that they had nothing to learn from a white woman who had never experience firsthand violence‚ discrimination
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adversity to rise above and conquer. They become leaders‚ that other citizens learn from and become inspired with. This transformation represents the power that all victims have‚ but don’t use. In Diary 139 of The Freedom Writer’s Diary written by Erin Gruwell and her students ‚ the student being a victim of conflict was the first in his family to be graduating from high school and was being selected to be the graduation class speaker. He did not succumb to his ’planned’ fate of failing like the rest
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with Erin Gruwell and 150 other students published in 1999. Richard LaGravenese wanted to bring the book alive to utilize that everyone struggles in the world. He wanted to bring some similarities and some contrast from both the movie and the novel. One thing Richard LaGravenese did well was adding in the Holocausts scenes from the novel into the movie. He showed the kids perspective of not knowing about the Holocaust. The kids knew all about gangs‚ violence‚ and people dying. Mrs. Gruwell did an
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Freedom Writers Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) is a first-time teacher who wants to make a difference. She has little idea of what she’s getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach‚ California. Her students are divided along racial lines and have few aspirations beyond basic survival. When Erin discovers how much of their lives are blighted by racial prejudice‚ she introduces them to books like ’The Diary of Anne Frank’ and begins
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of creating healthy diversity‚ this program breeds constant war between all parties involved‚ the result being daily gun shots‚ constant racial slurs‚ and gang violence. Despite being up against unthinkable violence‚ devoted first-time teacher Erin Gruwell never gives up and slowly bonds with her class of at-first unreachable pupils. In addition‚ she breaks down their tough exteriors and searches for the real people beneath by requiring the students keep daily journals. After sharing their stories
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“Freedom Writers” was about Erin Gruwell‚ a young teacher who accepted a position teaching freshman and sophomore English at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach‚ California. Mrs. Gruwell dramatically transformed a chaotic class of hardened inner city youths. This class was consisted of African Americans‚ Latinos‚ Asians‚ Juvenile Delinquents‚ gang members‚ one Caucasian‚ and underprivileged students from poor neighborhoods. At first‚ it was difficult for Mrs. Gruwell to relate to her class. The
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Skrzynecki uses similes such as homing pigeon and birds of passage to explain the constant change‚ ‘we lived like birds of passage’. Freedom Writers‚ a film directed by Richard LaGravenese (based on a true story) is about a young teacher named Erin Gruwell played by actress Hilary Swank who inspires her class of at risk students to learn tolerance‚ apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school. Knowing that Woodrow Wilson High school was in integrated high school‚ she chose to work there
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challenged by a group of Black‚ Latino and Asian gang members who have extreme hate for the new teacher‚ Erin Gruwell. Over time Erin begins to listen and realizes that by listening to these students she begins to understand that getting through the day alive is enough and that these young teenagers are not normal they are fighting a war on the streets that had began long before their time. Erin works out that by giving these children respect they will respect her and by these she can make these young
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