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
The film starts with an uprising after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident Highlights Prejudices. The teenager was labeled a thief because of the color of his skin and the unjustifiable murder causes racial tensions that exist as a result of the integration of the high schools.
He learns the ins- and- outs of hustling in a city like Harlem. His brother Reginald came to Harlem and Malcolm taught him the basics of hustling to help get him some money. He was doing a robbery type of job with Sammy, his friend he met in Harlem, and they were being shot at. They met back up at Sammy’s apartment where Malcolm hits Sammy’s girl. Sammy tried to kill him but they made up later, but not entirely. These events showed how he has adapted so much to Harlem and started to become a little dangerous. The hustle and crimes he does show how he has changed in a large way and how much he developed as a person after experiencing the life of
100). In social movements, the counterstances can be seen as the violent retaliations of an oppressed group of people, such as the Los Angeles riots in 1992 and the Ferguson lootings which occurred recently. These riots are not a spontaneous act of rebellion, but instead are developed from concentrated amounts of stress and inability to create a strong enough voice with political merit. Estrella is a character that develops around the stress of social inequality. Her lifestyle is not standard of “normal American” children where education takes precedents over childhood labor. Viramontes creates Estrella’s background to allow the character to grow through constant stress. Estrella is conscious of her social standing; the experience she had at the baseball game when the “sheets of high-powered lights beamed on the playing field” (pg. 59) induced fear and stress that made Estrella want to retaliate against “La Migra”. Melina Pinales elaborated in class that when Estrella’s mother, Petra, says “you tell them the birth certificates are under the feet of Jesus,” the mother is saying that everyone is a child under God and a child of the earth therefore Estrella should have nothing to fear. Adding to this, Estrella has legitimate paperwork proving her citizenship in the United States. However, due to the nature of Estrella’s work, her
She could not understand how boys and girls could be allowed to behave in such hateful and often physically abusive ways. She learned, too, that the white students attending Central High were not the only ones who displayed such hateful behavior, as many of the school’s administrators as well as the members of the local and state police forces stood by and watched the white students torment and abuse Melba and her eight black classmates.... ... middle of paper ... ...
The inner city can be a good thing or a bad thing, for African Americans it is often a bad thing as they get caught up in gangs thinking that this is the only way they will have family. This is true in some aspects, because depending on the family, children can be abandoned due to drugs or be subject to violence. In the movie, one of the children, who lives around the pizzeria, is a little girl is abused at home. This often happens in broken homes, like the ones depicted by Spike Lee. In other cases children come from good homes. For example, if one comes from a prominent African American family, they know that everyone takes care of everyone, they work together to take care of each other. In the film, there are several older black men that act like grandfathers to the people on the block. This is reminiscent in of one of the class readings, Family M...
Racial discrimination is the one thing that is in the novel the most. For example, when the Spaniards first came to Tenochtitlan, the first thing that was taken from the Aztecs was their religion. This would include their customs, traditions, sacrifices, ceremonies, and belief of their gods. Every Aztec was then baptized as a Christian and were then given a Christian name. “Have I upset you?”
Throughout the novel Harper Lee explores the racism, prejudice, and the innocence that occurs throughout the book. She shows these topics through her strong use of symbolism throughout the story.
For this assignment, I decided to watch “Crash”, a movie set in the streets of Los Angeles California and that shows the lives of various individuals with different cultural backgrounds. The movie starts with the scene of a car crash between an Asian woman and a couple of detectives near the sight of a murder, as the African American detective Graham Waters walks around the scene he stops because he saw something that shocked him, and from there a flashback begins. The first relevant scene shows, Anthony and Peter, two African Americans individuals walking down the street talking about racial discrimination. As they talk a couple passes by them and the two decide to steal their car. This causes a chain of events affecting the lives of many
For a long time, when anyone thought of a war movie, they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck’s, The Longest Day. Cornelius Ryan, who was the author of the book by the same name, and happened to be a D-day veteran himself, wrote the movie. The book meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion. It is filled with detailed descriptions of multiple occurrences during the invasion. It explains everything from mass attacks on beaches and towns to humorous anecdotes. The book wasn’t exactly a story involving characters, and neither was the film. The Longest Day is more a story of tragedy, glory, and courage surrounding one very important day. And even though mainly American and English filmmakers produced the movie, the movie and book both portray the Germans fairly. But the film added so much to the story that the book could not. Without some of the stunning visuals that the five (Zanuck went unaccredited, but was said to have directed over half the movie) directors put in the film, it would have been impossible to comprehend the scale of it all.
When Malcolm hit the eighth grade his English teacher Mr. Ostrowski asked what he would like to do for a career when he was an adult. Malcolm said that he would like to become a lawyer. Mr. Ostrowski’s retort would be burned into Malcolm’s head for eternity. “A lawyer-that’s no realistic goal for a nigger. You need to think about something you can be.” Malcolm left Lansing and went to Boston to live with his sister Ella, because she had gotten custody of him and life in Lansing was unbearable. Malcolm stated “Whatever I have done since then, I have driven myself to become a success at it.” Malcolm was now mad at the world for the hardships it had given him, and he was determined to not let it get in the way of him being what he wanted to
This movie takes place in Los Angeles and is about racial conflicts within a group of people which occur in a series of events. Since there are a wide variety of characters in this movie, it can be confusing to the viewer. In the plot, Graham is an African-American detective whose younger brother is a criminal. His mother cares more about his brother than Graham and she wants Graham to bring his brother back home, which in turn hurts Graham. Graham?s partner Ria is a Hispanic woman who comes to find that her and Graham?s ethnicities conflict when she had sex with him. Rick is the Los Angeles district attorney who is also op...
In the novel Big Fish by Daniel Wallace, we are told the story of Edward Bloom, a man of many adventures, who is somewhat of a myth. Big Fish is a collection of the tall tales Edward tells his son about his life, and also of the effect his tales had on his son. The novel comes from an American author from Alabama, while the movie comes from Hollywood and is directed by Tim Burton, who is also American. This story is not an ancient sacred text, so the story’s function(s) is to entertain and to make money.
A reoccurring theme I saw throughout the whole novel were examples racism and stereotypes. I know all of the books we have read had some kind of racism in them but I feel like this one is the first novel that I saw a lot of examples and could relate some of it to what happens in today's society. For example his dad getting shot by police officers could be compared
The movie Crash is in the streets of Los Angeles. If you notice all of the characters seem to play the victim and accuser in different racial situations. There is a story behind each character over a two day period. There is the detective who is prejudice against his own race whose younger brother is a criminal. There is Jean who is prejudice against black people after getting robbed. John is the cop who is racist against all black people and sexually assaults Christine in front of her husband. This movies show’s so many of the social psychological principles through the story of each individual.
“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.