Freedom Writers Movie Analysis

“The Revisionaries” is a 2012 documentary meant to provide a brief view of who makes the decision that affects the American curriculum and on what grounds they are made. In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American children. Once every decade, the highly politicized Texas State Board of Education rewrites the teaching and textbook standards. Don McLeroy, a dentist, Sunday school teacher, and young-earth creationist, leads the Religious Right charge. After briefly serving on his local school board, McLeroy was elected to the Texas State Board of Education and later appointed chairman. During his time on the board, McLeroy has overseen the adoption of new science and social studies curriculum standards,

In the 1920s, when movies were a brand new concept, people went to see the pictures in order to escape from their lives. In these movies, everything worked out in the end and they depicted happy, perfect lives. As the Depression raged on, movies were a distraction from the wear and tear of normal life. With the movie Freedom Writers, however, that is not the case. Freedom Writers tells the impossibly true story of a first-year teacher, Erin Gruwell, and the difficulties she faced in her classroom of supposed hopeless cases. In Long Beach, California, her students dealt with gang violence, drugs, and racism in their everyday lives. They lived in constant fear. The movie emphasizes how Gruwell wrestles with the public school system, motivates her students to learn, and changes their lives in the process. Directed by Richard LaGravenese, it came out in 2007 with stars such as Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, and April Hernandez gracing the screen (IMDb). In contrast to the early movies, Freedom Writers deals with issues that are still a problem today, such as a focus on the majority instead of helping students who need extra assistance or encouragement.

Freedom Writers is a movie based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell. The movie was directed by Richard LaGravenese and it was released in 2007. This movie discusses significant themes such as stereotyping and racial discrimination but most important the power of tolerance and understanding. The purpose of this movie is to promote the message that knowledge is power and in a world filled with disparities where hundreds of ethnic groups convey and interact humans are obliged to accept and tolerate the differences that define each person. This film is a perfect example of how these rhetorical components are used to create an effective argument. The director of the movie as well as the characters build their

“Everything will change. Everything has changed.” A powerful statement made in the film The Patriot (2000), however, radical change is occurring right before the American populist without any realization. Mel Gibson stars, in an action-packed war story, as a widower named Benjamin Martin with seven children. Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), is loosely, based on several real-life players in the American Revolution, including Francis “Swamp Fox” Marion, a militia leader from South Carolina. After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wanted nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their

The Freedom Writers is about a teacher who takes on the task of educating students at a reform high school. Initially, the students misbehave and resent Miss Gruwell, their teacher, because she does not know what it is like to survive as a minority. But, Miss Gruwell sees the potential in her students and finds a way to show her students that their lives could be worse. She works three different jobs so that she can afford to buy “The Diary of Anne Frank” for them to

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.

The movie freedom writers support the idea that Amy Purdy puts forward. Purdy challenges us to use limitations and boundaries to help our imaginations take us to the places of our dreams. In Freedom writers, the teacher Erin, initially was met with an obstacle of getting her class to listen to her. After figuring her way through the first obstacle she is met with another, then another and another. Each step of the way the new obstacle was challenging but rewarding at every step. By the end of the film she had dodged and meandered through the challenges of her situation and was able to achieve her dreams and even more than that. With each obstacle there was an experience, these cumulative experiences make us all who we are and are a part of

Freedom Writers, a movie based on a real story happened in America, has portrayed the American educational circles in 2007 vividly. Freedom Writers has an unusual mix of cast members. It combines unknown actors with famous stars (Hilary Swank and Patrick Dempsey) and real holocaust survivors. In this movie，we can see lots of changes happened in Room 203, which including Ms. Gruwell and her students. All of the teacher and the students have changed a lot since the first semester. Although it’s painful sometimes while they are changing, they won’t even stop a little bit. They just move on, and become whoever they want to be. This is the only reason why they become a legend in the field of education.

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

This movie Freedom Writers is based on a true story. Freedom Writers is a film which related to racial discrimination, education and many other issues. The whole story takes place in a larger environment of strong racial and gang wars. The fall of 1994, Erin Gruwell stood before her first group of student. These kids were from the poorest and the bottom of society, and lived under the serious racial discrimination. They never heard of the teacher, and they did not know how to love and respect others. They contradict to accept Erin from the hearts, but Erin did not give up them. She tried to come close to their hearts by various ways and gradually gained their trust.

In the movie, The Freedom Writers Mrs. Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank) 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 in Long Beach, California. 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 not only

A story about one inexperienced teacher with a lot of hope, determination, and hidden courage meets an even more courageous group of students living in a place where their entire community wants to see them fail. This, is the story known as The Freedom Writers. The director for this movie was Richard LaGravenese. Main characters from the film include Erin Gruwell, Scott Casey, Steve Gruwell, Margarett Campbell, Eva Benitez, Andre Bryant, Gloria Munez, SIndy, Alejandra Santiago, Marcus, Jamal Hill, Brandy Ross, and Ben Daniels (“Freedom Writers”). Woodrow Wilson High School is in Long Beach, California and has recently integrated students from around the area that extremely diversify the school in many ways. This new student body is made up of cliques and gangs that only worry about protecting “their own”, which lead to violence and attacks due to fear and misunderstanding. Ms.Gruwell’s job is to educate these kids and see them graduate, but first she has to learn how to unite her very broken and ill-trusting group of students. The Freedom Writers takes on the whole idea of hope, and that through courageous acts with love and determination, anyone can conquer obstacles that no one thought you could.

The film Freedom Writers directed by Richard La Gravenese is an American film based on the story of a dedicated and idealistic teacher named Erin Gruwell, who inspires and teaches her class of belligerent students that there is hope for a life outside gang violence and death. Through unconventional teaching methods and devotion, Erin eventually teaches her pupils to appreciate and desire a proper education. The film itself inquiries into several concepts regarding significant and polemical matters, such as: acceptance, racial conflict, bravery, trust and respect. Perhaps one of the more concentrated concepts of the film, which is not listed above, is the importance and worth of education. This notion is

Freedom Writers is a story that proves we can all get past our differences once we see that we are truly all the same. At Wilson High, the students are clearly separated by race. Most of them hardly even know what they are fighting about or fighting for. The tensions they feel come from

The Patriot is known as this action packed, adventurous movie, and most americans have watched this movie despite the fact of its inaccuracies, also depicting america as great and the british as bad. This movie takes place in 1776, this was before the declaration of independence was signed and a idea was proposed about breaking away from the king and initiating a new nation was great but arguable. Not all the americans wanted to be independent from Great Britain, there was separation between the rebels and the colonials ,the rebels that wanted have to freedom and the Colonials that wanted to stay faithful to the king, america was nowhere near to united. The boston incident turned into a civil war. Later on, loyalists saw the british military as a authorized army, therefore loyalists joining the army because they were nationalistic like the rebels. However, in the movie they point out one loyalist because in the movie The Patriot they depict the americans in a positive light because if they stuck to true history they couldn't do that and would make the americans look bad.