Freedom Writers Task 1: The Narrative Elements Characterisation Erin Gruwell- Erin Gruwell was a young English teacher in a school in Long Beach‚ California she is a passionate teacher who gives up at nothing to help and teach her students Eva and Sindy – They both hate each other as they come from different gangs‚ but when it comes down to it they are extremely similar and have been through the same sort of situations as shown in the scene where they are both are getting ready to go out. Setting
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The Sense of Responsibility Can Change Students The story of “Freedom Writers” was set in Long Beach. Erin was a new teacher who believed the way to stop racial hatred is to change the young’s minds. The students in the school where she worked divided into four camps: whites‚ Latinos‚ Cambodians‚ and blacks. Every group hated each other. Erin wanted to change this condition and wanted everyone to change. In fact‚ she did it. Now here is question. Why Erin could do something that others did not finish
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FREEDOM WRITERS We all have our own story to tell‚ the only question is…is it worth telling? The students in Woodrow Wilson Highschool under the class of Mrs. Gruwell were delinquents. They were part of gangs of every kind black‚ Latin and Cambodians. They were racist. They beat up people who aren’t in their gangs and they protect their own even if it isn’t worth protecting. My first conception of delinquents were that they will never change‚ they were born to be like that and nothing and no
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Freedom Writers Diary Movie Questions 1. Eva’s view of herself and her people is that their nationality is competing with other races because of the discrimination. When Eva is a child‚ she is taught by her father that she has to fight for her people. “An Aztec princess is chosen for her blood‚ to fight for her people‚ as Papi and his father fought‚ against those who say we are less than they are‚ who say we are not equal in beauty and in blessings”. 2. According to Eva her father is arrested for
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There is an obvious discrimination shown in the movie “Freedom Writers”‚ where everybody hates everybody and they got no choice but to live in a world full of pandemonium. Random cultural implications are shown in the movie. Where one has to accept his/her society since birth‚ or someone has to really join a gang to keep up and belong to a hood. In the case of the students in the movie‚ they are just simply hopeless and what they all just do is to keep raging flames in their hearts. Until one tough
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SUMMARY OF FREEDOM WRITERS Freedom Writers is set in the 1990s and tells the story of a novice teacher’s interactions with a group of students in a Long Beach high school two years following the Los Angeles Riots. The film is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them‚ a collection of essays compiled from the real experiences of Erin Gruwell (1999) and her students‚ known as the Freedom Writers. The
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In the Freedom writers‚ Eva Benitez was of one Ms. Gruwell students. Eva had a tough childhood growing up. She had to go through a lot‚ especially when she was a young girl. She will always remember the time when she saw her next door neighbor get shot for no apparent reason‚ just because of his race. Also a few minutes the cops took her father away‚ but they had no reason they just felt like arresting a Mexican. I think that by Eva seeing all of this at such a young age made her into a tough girl
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The Freedom writers Diary which was a amazing true story for it shows strength‚ courage‚ and achievements in the face of adversity. This remarkable true story starts in the fall of 1994‚ in class room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach‚ California. Erin Gruwell first time teacher faced her first group of students‚ told to be “unteachable and at risk” teens by the administration. Erin’s class room diverse mix of African-American‚ Latino‚ Cambodian‚ Vietnamese‚ and Caucasian students‚
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Freedom writers Question 1. Why are the students so unwilling to associate with anyone outside their ethnic/racial groups? Where does this intolerance come from? The students are so unwilling to associate with each other because they’re not used to getting along with the other group of people. Their used to having to run or shoot at the other ethnic/racial groups. This intolerance comes from growing up in hostile environments towards the other ethnic/racial groups. 2. What would you
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Freedom Writers “Freedom Writers” is one of movies about an idealistic but strong-willed teacher who transforms chaotic class of hardened inner city youths. The story focus where which also strongly rebukes racism and inner city gang activity‚ is not only emotionally powerful and intellectually stimulating; it is also uplifting and entertaining. The moral values of freedom writers are: • The students gained knowledge about the truth and the higher moral values‚ and then applied what they learned
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