Erin Gruwell Essay

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“I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world”, is what Erin Gruwell said when speaking about her calling as a teacher in an inner city school. Erin Gruwell identifies as an author in the time period of postmodernism. Postmodernism is characterized by being of the late twentieth century, and by the style in which it is known to test the boundaries in a rebellious way. When Erin Gruwell was given the task of managing a less than excited high school class, she took the opportunity to create a unique teaching method to enhance the life of her students through writing. This method caught fire and eventually influenced the lives of many.

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Karen said the the book was so edited that it felt fake, and it lost all sincerity. The book lacked the strong point of view, and the unfeigned, overall influence fell short. The critique is found to be true because the level of writing does not seem authentic for inner-city kids. The cheeriness of the diaries do not match truthfulness of the situation. “I believe that I will never again feel uncomfortable with a person of a different race.” While this would be ideal it is virtually unrealistic because the writer of this diary cannot predict the tendencies of society and human nature. “I am home,” Saying this about a classroom setting, being only temporary, is actually untrue. By definition, home is a place where one lives or resides permanently.Ms. Gruwell tells how her students are nearly walking encyclopedias of pop culture. This being the generation they grew up with, and not having anything else to lean to but vain visions of perfection, of course that is all they know. In their lives full of trouble these idols are a distraction from actual problems, it is more probable that they know more about a Kardashian than a current

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