‘Richard La Gravense’s’ movie ‘Freedom Writer’ is based on a true story of a teacher and one hundred and fifty students of Woodro Wilson High School. This story is taken by the Eva’s diary, a true story of a girl, who suffers a lot in her life because of the racial riot. In the movie all the students are affected by the gang violence and racial tension in their life. This movie shows the effort of the teacher, who reconciles all the student in-spite of big racial wall.
To erase the gap between the students she ruins her private life and makes them reconcile.
Erin the main protagonist, a new excited school teacher comes at ‘Woodro Wilson High school’ in long beach to teach the students. It is 1994 in long beach California, idealist Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job, that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodro Wilson High School. Which two years earlier, implemented a voluntary integration program.
This movie begins with scene from the 1992 ‘Los Angeles riot, which is known as the Rodney King Riots. It was the south central riots, the 1992 los angels Civil Disturbance and Civil Unrest.
It was a race riot and the subsequent looting. Erin was very happy to teach the students but her enthusiasm is quickly challenged, when she realizes her classes are all ‘at-risk’ students and not the eager students she was expecting. She is unprepared for the nature of the classroom, whose students live by generation of strict moral codes of protecting their own at all cost.
Many are in gang and almost all know somebody that has been killed by gang violence . They hate each other. Her students believe themselves brave soldiers in some war. The only person the students hate more is Mrs. Gruwell.
It is not until hold an unsanctioned discussion about a recent drive by shooting death that she fully begins to understand what she is up against. And it is not until she provides an assignment of writing, a daily journals, which will be not graded, and will remain unread by her unless they so choose. The students segregate themselves into racial group in the class room. They fight break out, and eventually most of the students stop turning up to class. Not only does erin meet opposition from her students, but she also has a hard time with her department head.
The department who refuses to let her students with book in case they get damage and lost, and instead tells her to focus on teaching them discipline and obedience at school. All the students like combodians, maxicons, latinos, blacks, and one white guy are not ready to listen her in the beginning. They thought that she came here to rule over them and teach them some nonsense thinks. They are not interested here earnest attempt to discuss about Homer, the Greek poet. They hate her. The kids are radically separated along self impose ethnic lines.
They fight, quarrel to each other in the classroom in front of their teacher because of their race. They think that all whites are same, cruel and disgusting. Therefore they do not interested and care the teacher advice and words. One day when one student draws a racial picture of another one erin angrily tell them about holocaust and horror of racism and decides them to reconcile. She tells them the historical prism of national socialist Germany and it is bigotry and genocide against the Jews. ’ Adolf Hitlar’ ‘Gang’ puts young gang to shame.
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Because of that holocaust, human beings were afraid from the name of any race. Erin tries hard to trap their problem and tries to find out the reason of their hate to each other. She organizes a game in the class room and that after she knows that why they all hate to each other and also know the truth that they lost their own people because of racial riot.
Then she gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries, in which they talk about their experience of being abuse, seeing their friends die and being evicted. Determined to reform her students, she takes two part time jobs for more books and spends more time at school. Her strong will power leads her toward her destination. She does work hard to make a one family member to their school. To fulfill her aim she is ready to leave her husband, who does not understand her felling towards the students so they decide to leave each other.
Students gradually begin to write on the diaries. They wrote there their pain, experiences, loneliness, discrimination and so on which they gain from their life, now erin understands her students problem and pain. She decides to make them good students and well manner. But her teaching staffs are not happy with her because of her activity they think that this students are not understand the voice of love therefore they should treat tightly. But erin does not stop her work and gives more and more time to the students. But slowly students understand her and co-operate her expect eva .
Erin thinks that students should meet the Holocaust survivors . So she invites several Holocaust survivors to talk with her class about their experiences and takes them on a field trip to the museum of ‘Tolerance’. To give them good knowledge she spent her own money. Her father also helps her to reconcile the students. The students were not very aware at the beginning of the film. But during the case of the film, they were challenged by erin and in by doing the activities that she had them do, they were able to become more self-aware.
When the students were able to write in the journals, she fells happy. But Eva does not ready to co-operate her. She hates erin more than other students at the beginning. When her friends force her to think again about erin and her good behaviors. She started to write and ready to co-operate her. She had to go through a lot, especially when she was young girl. She will always remember the time when she was 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 Maxicon. Eva saw all this in her young age which make her strong and learn to fight against their enemies. Because of that reason she hates erin and all different racial peoples. Gradually she realized her mistake and misbehaviors towards the teachers. She also started to write her pain and her family tension. Eva’s father was not ready to trust on her teacher but eva convinced him. Later on he is ready to trust upon erin.
Erin put their writing safely in a computer now they are free to write what they want to write in their diaries no one can see the diaries without their permission. Erin makes a big change in Eva’s life and most of the student’s life. She did well in her work. She proved herself. She ruins her marriage life to reconcile the students. No one cared for the students, she dared. She refused to believe that her students were “un-teachable” as branded by other teachers and the academic system.
To begin with the students did not even want to be helped. But with high moral integrity she showed the highest esteem a human being could get, and yet in her human words. She only wanted to do her job. The director of this movie has made this movie excellently good. She reunion them among the big racial battle, only because of eva’s diary which saw her the right way to go to her destination without the help of eva and her diary she would not reconcile them. She not only reconciles them but she also makes them freedom to write about anything.
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