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    The document summarizes the themes and lessons of the film The Freedom Writers, focusing on tolerance, empowerment, and the power of writing. It discusses how the main character, Mrs. Gruwell, teaches her students to understand and respect each other through literature despite racial divisions. She empowers them through creative writing and helps them find common experiences and similarities beyond stereotypes.

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    The document summarizes the themes and lessons of the film The Freedom Writers, focusing on tolerance, empowerment, and the power of writing. It discusses how the main character, Mrs. Gruwell, teaches her students to understand and respect each other through literature despite racial divisions. She empowers them through creative writing and helps them find common experiences and similarities beyond stereotypes.

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    Freedom Writers Essay

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    Adriana Fernanda Robles Fuentes

    202111023

    Freedom Writers Essay


    The main lessons and themes in The Freedom Writers are tolerance, empowerment
    and self-worth, and the power of writing. The most significant theme in The Freedom
    Writers is tolerance and understanding. Gruwell's students hated one another for no
    reason other than that they thought they were supposed to because of gang histories
    and stereotypes.
    Tolerance: Through literature, Gruwell teaches her students the power of tolerance and
    enables them to better understand each other and the world around them.
    Empowerment and self-worth: Gruwell empowers her students by giving them an
    outlet through which to express themselves both personally and creatively.
    The power of writing: Through their readings and writing assignments, Gruwell's
    students come to understand both the cathartic values of writing as well as its ability to
    impact the world.
    In the movie, The Freedom Writers Mrs. Erin Gruwell plays a role of a dedicated teacher
    who did all she could, to help her students learn to respect themselves and each other.
    She has little idea of what she's getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher
    at a newly integrated high school, but her students were divided along racial lines and
    had few aspirations beyond basic survival. Mrs. Gruwell was faced with a big challenge
    when a group of freshmen students showed her nothing but disrespect which made it
    hard for her to communicate, teach and understand them. However, Erin Gruwell was
    determined that no matter the cost she would teach her students. They were stories of
    broken and dysfunctional homes, being kicked out of the house for being part of a gang,
    to being beaten up just because they were different. Reading these journals Mrs. “G”
    realized how similar each student’s stories were no matter the race, ethnicity or gender.
    Even though the students did not see eye to eye, they all had many things in common:
    they were all in gangs; they each had their own stories to tell; each student has dealt with
    the shooting of a friend, each student want to communicate to others, and each student
    wanted to be respected. Upon realizing all of the similarities between each student, Mrs.
    “G” then began to strive for her students to realize this too, so she comes up with a “line
    game” for the students. She places a line on the floor with tape and the students walk to
    the line when the question that Mrs. “G” asks applies to them. At first she asks silly
    questions like “How many of you have the new Snoop Dogg album?” or “How many of
    you have seen Boyz n the hood?” but as the game goes on she begins to ask more
    serious questions like “How many of you have lost a friend to gang violence?” when
    every single student steps up to the line for each question they begin to realize that
    beneath their race their ethnicity and affiliation to a gang, that as teenagers they are a
    lot alike, with many of the same experiences.
    Adriana Fernanda Robles Fuentes
    202111023

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