The Freedom writers movie and book are based on the real diaries of high students from Woodrow Wilson Classical High School. The book was published in 1999 and was writed by the students of Ms.Gruwell class. Mrs.Gruwell was a new teacher to WWC High School in 1994. She didn’t know was she was getting herself into. She taught Freshman that were at the 5th grade reading level. Students didn't really care much for school or anything else. The campus of WWC High School was divided from different races. The students called it a “War”. Some kids were involved in gangs and violence in the streets. Most of the time those troubles would be settled on campus. Fights, shootings, stabbings and gang activity were common on campus. Students of Ms.Gruwell …show more content…
The students write in their diaries from freshman year to Junior year. Then Ms.Gruwell has an idea to put all the diaries together and make it into one book. They did this so they could leave a mark when they graduate from school. The book was great but you never know who was telling the story it didn't have any name on the top but in the movie you can hear and see what the person write in the diary, They even act it out in a seen. The movie has many more things that happen that didn't happen in the book. For example the student In the movie the student Marcus a ghetto kid is homeless because his mother kicked him out the house when get into the gang life. Him then go back home to apologize to his mother and the mother lets him come back him. In the book whoever he is just a normal student but still a ghetto kid in the gang life. I think Hollywood made some changes so they could get more people to see the movie. Adding more to the movie is a great way to get a bigger audience. The bad only bad thing is if someone has never read the book and watched the movie they are going to believed everything Hollywood decided to add on to the story. Next I will point out the differences from the book and the movie. In the beginning of the movie It starts off with Eva reading a story from her diary and from the book it starts of with Ms.Gruwell reading off her diary. Not everyone's diary is read during the movie well in the book everyone diary is there. Both do kinda still start off the same with Ms.Gruwell having a hard time trying to get a hold up the class. The first diaries in the book start off kinda off and you can tell how they develop through the years with their writing. So after the whole problem with the kids misbehaving and Ms.Gruwell finally speaks up and stands up for a student she bring of the holocaust a student ask what was the holocaust and then she realizes how the whole class has never heard of
1. What was integration in 1971 at T. C. Williams High School? Why was it such a problem?
I think that most of the event in the movie were not in the same order that Jeannette had wrote them. After reading the book I had a different picture in mind of how each character would look and it threw me off for the rest of the movie. I did like the fact that I could see what was happening and not just imagine things in my head that I thought was happening, as I was watching the movie I was seeing the same thing everyone else was and not just what I was picturing while reading the
As you can all see the movie for once is actually better than the book in showing the
They began to work together to do good like when the students held a concert to get a guest speaker or when their teacher got another job just to get the students books the students where in a dark place and their teacher showed them the light. Most of the students were in gangs and bad situations but she took them out of that. The quote connects to the story because as it states they will stand by you in your darkest moments and Ms. Gruwell encouraged all of the students in their darkest moments when they were all so against one another and turning their back on school she stood by them and didn’t give up. The quote also states ‘’in your greatest moments they’re not afraid to let you shine’’ and she let them shine by giving them the credit for all the hard work they did and standing up for them against her coworkers and just overall believing in them that’s what connects the story The Freedom Writers to the quote
Overall, the movie and book have many differences and similarities, some more important than others. The story still is clear without many scenes from the book, but the movie would have more thought in it.
The movie also switches stuff up, because in the book the first sense or diary they got chase after they got off the bus from school, which in the movie they got chased walking on their way to school. Hilary Swank play Erin like if she was actually her, like if she knew her life story and what she had been through. In the movie she lost her husband for wanting to let go of the kids, and in the book it never states she has a
For example, Mama goes to the bank in the movie and is given a hard time about paying her mortgage, but this did not happen in the book. Another major difference is that the school bus scene, where the Logan kids played a trick on the white kids, was not shown in the movie, even though it was an important part of the story. There are some character changes as well. Lillian Jean, Jeremy, R.W, and Melvin are Simms’ in the book, but in the movie they are Kaleb Wallace’s children. However, the main plot difference is how the movie starts in the middle, summarizing everything from the first part of the book very briefly. Additionally, many scenes are switched around and placed out of order. Altogether, the plot and character changes contribute to my unfavorable impression of the
The books, A Wrinkle in Time and And Then There Were None, both have many differences in the movie versions. The directors of both movies change the plot to make the movie see fit to what they may have imaged the book to be, while still keeping the story line the same.
Erin Gruwell began her teaching career at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California where the school is integrated but it’s not working. Mrs. Gruwell is teaching a class fill with at-risk teenagers that are not interested in learning. But she makes not give up, instead she inspires her students to take an interest in their education and planning for their future as she assigned materials that can relate to their lives. This film has observed many social issues and connected to one of the sociological perspective, conflict theory. Freedom Writers have been constructed in a way that it promotes an idea of how the community where the student lives, represented as a racially acceptable society. The film upholds strong stereotypes of
They were all hated by their fellow students, just for their skin color. Unsurprisingly, all of their peers at CHS were white. These students’ names were Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terence Walters, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershead, and Melba Pattillo Beals. Through trials and tribulations, these students attended the torturous Central High School to prove that integration was a needed part of the American society. It all started when the government agreed that the “separate but equal” rule was unconstitutional and was then abolished from the American rule book (1994).
The 2007 movie Freedom Writers gives a voice of hope and peace in a fragile environment where hate and sorrow battle in the life of urban teenagers. This drama film narrates the true story of a new English teacher, Erin Growell, who is designated to work in an inner-city school full of students surround by poverty, violence and youth crime bands. During the beginning of the movie, the teacher struggles to survive her first days at this racially segregated school in which students prejudice her for being white and ignore her authority in the classroom. The teacher encounters the life of students who are hopeless for a better future and attached to a delinquency lifestyle of survival. In addition, she confronts a reality of lack of educational
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
The film Freedom Writers directed by Richard La Gravenese is an American film based on the story of a dedicated and idealistic teacher named Erin Gruwell, who inspires and teaches her class of belligerent students that there is hope for a life outside gang violence and death. Through unconventional teaching methods and devotion, Erin eventually teaches her pupils to appreciate and desire a proper education. The film itself inquiries into several concepts regarding significant and polemical matters, such as: acceptance, racial conflict, bravery, trust and respect. Perhaps one of the more concentrated concepts of the film, which is not listed above, is the importance and worth of education. This notion is distinctly displayed through the characters of Erin, Erin’s pupils, opposing teachers, Scott and numerous other characters in the film. It is also shown and developed through the usage of specific dialogue, environment, symbolism, and other film techniques.
“We fight each other for territory; we kill each other over race, pride, and respect. We fight for what is ours. They think they’re winning by jumping me now, but soon they’re all going down, war has been declared.” Abuse, Pain, Violence, Racism and Hate fill the streets of Long Beach, California. Asians, Blacks, Whites and Hispanics filled Wilson High School; these students from different ethnic backgrounds faced gang problems from day to night. This movie contains five messages: people shouldn’t be judgmental because being open-minded allows people to know others, having compassion for a person can help people change their views in life, being a racist can only create hate, having the power of the human will/goodness to benefit humanity will cause a person to succeed at any cost and becoming educated helps bring out the intelligence of people.
Freedom Writers is exalted by a true story and the diaries of real Long Beach juvenile after the LA riots also known as the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest. Hilary Swank a two-time Academy Award winner stars as Erin Gruwell whose interest in becoming a teacher is soon ruined by a bunch of Blacks, Asian, and Latino criminals who disrespect her more than each other. When Erin prepares to concentrate on them like no grown up as ever done she soon realizes that for these kids getting through the day alive is good enough, they are teenagers fighting a war long ago before they were born. Like no other teacher in that school, Erin gives the students respect and dignity. For the first time, these teens soon understand that their lives matter and they have something to say.