Long Beach Movie Vs Book

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In Long Beach there was over 120 murders in the months following the Rodney King riots. This is a story is about a teacher beginning her career in Long Beach, CA. This teacher's name is Mrs. Gruwell she notices that Long beach is so much more different than the gated community she grew up in. There were many good things that the move showed and what the movie explained. The book was more descriptive than the movie because the movie got so much more into Mrs. Gruwell’s love life than the book did. It focused mainly on the life of Mrs. Gruwell’s with her students and the students personal life. She began having her student write a diary to express their feelings and their personal experiences with their families and gang activities. I personally …show more content…

An example of one was when the book talked about a student who drew a picture about another student having big lips and making fun of him also came out in the movie. To make a point Miss Gruwell brought up the Holocaust and she asked how many students have heard of the Holocaust and none of them seem to know what it was about. She began to teach them a new learning process which help them a lot to better themselves. As you see in the movie and as it describes in the book all Races were separated. there was the Latinos, Chinatown, the ghetto, and the whites. As there was in the classroom they had a few of those mixed together. In the movie if focused a lot on a few main characters which were Mrs. Gruwell, Eva, Jamal, Marcus, Brandy, Sindy, and Andre. They began to talk about 14 year old Eva’s story. As the Latina growing up in the projects has been War since day one. Since she was young her father taught her how to defend herself from other kids which he met other races. while she was waiting for her father to take her to school she waved her neighbor across the street and then suddenly he was shot and her father was the one that was blamed for it. she stated “Mi padre is innocent, the white police took him away because he was respected by my people that is the only reason. A War has been declared.” She was later initiated into the gang life. She later witnessed one of her friends murder …show more content…

he wasn't motivated in school until Grill handed out the journals and he became more interested in writing in them and opened up a lot more. He grew to see that education was more important in life than sticking with his own and fighting. He learn to grow a lot of respect to Mrs. Gruwell and to others. In the movie it shows him that he sells drugs for another person to make a living Mrs. Gruwell confronts him and tells him that she believes in him and she knows he can do so much better. So as Andre realizes that Mrs. Gruwell cares about him he begins to better himself and become a better student. In the movie Jamal believes that school's a waste of time they drew a racist picture of him as a joke. he has had a tough life he stated that he has seen more dead bodies then a mortician. Ever since his father left his mother hasn't been the same she can't even look at him since he looks so much like his father. He became responsible for taking care of his mother eventually start selling drugs so he can take care of her. With the support of Mrs. Gruwell, Jamal became more responsible for his action he gave up selling drugs and became a better

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