freedom writers

recently i watch a video in sociology class and it just really influence me. so i decided to write something about the movie, so for those of you who haven't watch it, you might find it interesting to want to rent it at movie store.

The story is about how a newly freshmen teacher name Erin Gruwell teach at Wilson high school in long beach, California. Her class is consist of a diverse group of people from different walks of life—African American, Latino, Asian, juvenile delinquents, gang member, and underprivileged students from poor neighborhoods hope for nothing but to make through their days. Probably the most common thing they all share is their hatred for each. This hatred was not born within them it is through their every day life and what happened around them that influence these teenagers to hated people of different race and ethic background. Because it is what they have to do support people of their own type. These teenagers hate school because the teachers didn’t really care about them, when Erin saw this situation, she tries various way to engage them on daily basis. But then ghetto reality steps in to focus of the picture, a gang shooting is witnessed by a Latina gang member in Erin’s class, and an ugly racial cartoon is pass around Erin’s classroom to humiliated one of the student is class. Erin decide to make a transformation in the classroom, she compel them to listen, she force herself to take off herself’s idealistic blinders and start to take in the students survival stories of their undeclared war in their life. Erin connect with her students through music from Hood, and literature from another kind of ghetto, the Dairy of Anne Frank, and with these simple tools she opens her students eyes to experience of those suffering intolerance throughout the world and struggles of those outside their own communities. Knowing that every one of her students have a story of their own, Erin encourage everyone of them to keep up a journal or dairy of their thoughts and experiences. After sharing their story the students for the first time realized that they have shared the same experiences. And this is when all the things start to change because they open up the idea that there are possibilities in life outside of making it to the age of eighteen. After all Erin have an idea to combine all stories to create a dairy call Freedom Writer to be published. This dairy is an inspirational tale and testimony to courage, hope and the spirit’s triumph over intolerance. It let people to all meet a common idea that we are in fact all human being. I feel related to the character in the movie that sometimes I do feel it is difficult for me to blend in with the diverse group of people in school, because I am a Asian. Unlike the teenager in the movie which they have to face the struggles of hatred of other, my struggle is the ability to learn the English language, and the culture of the new countries. But I am very glad people in my school are very friendly towards the foreigner and they are interested in learn more about my original culture.