Becoming A Hit Man

The movie “Freedom Writers” is based on a true story. Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell plays an inspirational teacher at Wilson High School. She is ready to take on the teaching world as she steps inside Wilson High School for her first day. Her class, varied with teenagers of different ethnic backgrounds, wants nothing more than to just get through the day. African Americans, Latinos, Asians, gang members, and much more are from poor neighborhoods, that all share a similar hatred for each other. On the first day of teaching she is very scared and unsure, but she knows she has to stop the racism in the class as well as their attitude towards life. Despite her students' persistent refusal to participate

Gruwell taught her class about the Holocaust, the genocide of Jews. While learning about this major event in class the students were able to see how another person’s hatred affected someone’s life. They saw that many of the victims did not survive and were killed simply because of their race. This drew a parallel for the students to see how their hatred and violence against each other was senseless. In the same way Hitler killed Jews because of their race, they were killing each other. From learning about the Holocaust the students were able to step outside from their own personal norms, and examine a situation from a new or different

The film that I chose to analyze is The Freedom Writers. This movie is about Erin Gruwell portrayed by Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank, whose passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino and Asian gang members who hate her even more than they hate each other. Erin begins to understand that these kids are not delinquents and gives them something they never had from a teacher before—respect. For the first time, these teens experience a hope that they actually matter. Defined by O’Hair and Wiemann in the text, Real Communication: An Introduction (2012), the following concepts are exemplified in the film as:

The Freedom Writers is an emotional story about a classroom of students. These students all come from different backgrounds; most of them are in gangs or grew up around gang violence. They fear for their lives every single day and do not care whatsoever about getting their education in high school. That is until one teacher, Mrs. Erin Gruwell, comes along. Mrs. Gruwell teaches them that they are not so different at all. She treats them with respect, which is much more than any other teacher has ever given them. She brings them together through her teaching and through literature. In the end, the class is one big family. The story depicts stereotyping, prejudice, and racism in their most common forms. As seen in The Freedom Writers, racism

High school students are caught up in the popularity hype. In the movie, the way to gain popularity and respect is to fight people from other races. They think that they gain a lot from beating someone up. Unfortunately, not many people will stand up for what is right because they do not want to get ridiculed. In order to make a change you have to be willing to stick out. Mrs. Gruwell was willing to stand out for her cause so she could make a change and to fix the problem. She was persistent. No matter the ridicule that she received, she kept on doing what was right.

The film “Freedom Writers” is about a young, new high school English teacher, Mrs. Gruwell, which gets her first job at a struggling school. For her going to work was like entering a war zone because the students were rebelling against learning, and she kept fighting back with education. The class is segregated by race and gang affiliation. The Blacks stayed with the Blacks, the Hispanics with the Hispanics, the Asians with the Asians, and the one Caucasian in the class kept to himself. Gang violence, drugs, broken homes, shattered bank accounts, and even no homes at all effect these students. Although, Mrs. Gruwell has a plan to not let these experiences define their lives. This plan involves putting her marriage at risk, and taking a second

In the movie “freedom writers” kids learn to be tolerant and respect others for their color and race. It shows how these kids from the streets improve and change their perspective on color. The help from their teacher Ms. Gruwell really inspired and changed them. In their minds everything is about color. Slowly throughout the movie they change and accept others.

In the movie “freedom writers” kids learn to be tolerant and respect others for their color and race. It shows how these kids from the streets improve and change their perspective on color. The help from their teacher Ms. Gruwell really inspired and changed them. In their minds everything is about color. Slowly throughout the movie they change and accept others.

Henri Frederic Amiel once said, “Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.” Many times we see ourselves as lesser than what we actually could be. We may let negative perceptions of ourselves and our abilities lead us to believe we’re inferior but it is possible to become strong enough to break those mental barriers. The film Freedom Writers tells a story about at-risk freshmen students who live in toxic environments and a gang-ridden neighborhood while attending an inner-city school with racial tension on the rise. They meet their new English teacher, Erin Gruwell, who helps turn their mindset around showing them what solace there can be in picking up a pencil and writing about their hardships in a notebook. What makes this movie even more powerful is that it is based on a true story that took place in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Freedom Writers not only touches upon the ideas of tolerance, reaching one’s full potential, and the meaning of success, but further highlights the importance of perseverance and hope despite one’s circumstances.

Mrs. Gruwell, the teacher, struggles in the beginning to relate to the students and show them that coming to school can be worth something to them. She is eventually able to find ways to have the students see she is there to help them. Gruwell even buys them new books, which none of the students in the class were used to. She is able to grow and continue to get her students to open up. The use of a game helped show the students they are more alike than they previously thought. The game led to her giving them diaries to write their stories and if they wanted to share them with her; they could

There are many social issues in today’s society such as racism, gang violence and social injustice, and the movie Freedom Writers does a great job of addressing all of them. Based on the book, Freedom Writers portrays a group of high school students that have all been affected by gang violence and other forms of discrimination. The high school teacher Erin Gruwell, played by Hilary Swank, is an ambitious young teacher who is not ready for the culture shock that Wilson High School is about to present to her (“Full Cast & Crew”). In this classroom, Erin goes from being the majority to being the minority. Her class is full of different cultures who don’t get along with each other because they have been locked in a gang war for as long as they could remember. Mrs. G, as the kids call her, instead of becoming discouraged, puts all of her effort into connecting with her students and comes up with the idea for them to keep a journal. She then leads them through all four years of high school until her entire class graduates. One of the important messages brought forth in this movie is the one on gang violence.

The movie Freedom Writers is about Erin Gruwell who is starting her first year as an English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School. This school is racially divided with many gangs and violence erupting at any time. Ms. Gruwell was the students main subject of hate too. After having a discussion with her students about what they were feeling about their lives and situations, she took the responsibility of educating the students no matter what the cost was. She would eventually get through to the teens by passing out journals for them to write their personal life stories in. As the year went on, the students started to trust Ms.Gruwell. The next academic year, she had the students getting along with one another and reading The Diary of Ann Frank. She faced many critics within the school, but she ultimately succeeded.

Freedom Writers is a film that infiltrates education within one of the most grueling parts of America. The students in Mrs. Gruwell’s class often refer to their lives as a war. This is a war of the streets. Race and gang membership stands as a prominent issue to their discretion. Black, Latin, and Asian students stood

About 41% of students, that are enrolled in an inner-city school, graduate from high school. This is the case when it comes to Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in the movie Freedom Writers. In this 2007 film, this high school in Los Angeles, California has adopted a new racial integration plan. A new, young, enthusiastic female teacher starts at the school in hopes of making a change at the school. Her class of interracial students are deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their learning and in their future. In the film, Freedom Writers, director Richard LaGravenese kept some events the same from the actual event the same but changed some of the settings and events that occurred in order to make the movie more exciting and not as harsh as it actually was.

Ms. Gruwell, the teacher, struggles in the beginning to relate to the students and show them that attending school can be worth something to them. She is eventually able to find ways to have the students see she is there to help them. Gruwell even purchases them new books, which none of the students in the class were used to. She is able to grow and continue to get her students to open up. The use of a game helped show the students they are more alike than they previously thought. The game led to her giving them diaries to write their stories and if they wanted to share them with her; they could put them in a locked cabinet. She began reading them and this was when she truly started to see what went on within her students’ lives. She continues to find methods to keep them interested in school, a large factor was teaching them about the Holocaust. Breaking through to them and showing the students they were not alone in that classroom gave them a safe haven, a home. The students are the reason she fights to stay their English teacher the last two years of their high school career, and she succeeds. The end of the movie shows the students and Gruwell celebrating and displays photos of the actual people.