There's the boy whose father doesn't think his son will succeed and offers no hope or encouragement. There's also the girl who had to bring herself up because her mother was tired of being a mother. Then the girl who had a really wonderful family life at one point and within a few years, the mother left, the father remarried to a woman she and her siblings couldn't adjust to soon they moved to an aunt's place who loved her a lot until her lover returned from the jail and the kids were back to square one - homeless and family-less. There's the boy whose family doesn't have a home to stay in because they are so poor. There's the girl whose parents stole her stuff so that they can fund their drug addiction. There's the student who's the sole caretaker of the family and is on the verge of eviction because he/she has to pay 800 bucks in rent and the car payment is also due. The following 300-odd pages of this book shows so well how every single student has been transformed by Erin's teaching methods, the students' life experiences, their choices and willingness to perhaps hope that maybe they'll come through it all fine. So many stories in the book are moving. It shows how the power of education can help to break down barriers and create a more equitable and just society. The Freedom Writers Diary is a nonfiction book that collects the stories of English teacher Erin Gruwell and her students at Wilson High School in Long.
Would you rather wallow in depression because you are going through a life-changing mess or would you rather change the way you respond to that mess? The Freedom Writers is a reflection of the power of education and the resilience of the human spirit. I like to believe that I'm the only person who can control my life - of course there's the butterfly effect and then there is the case where someone else's actions can affect what happens to you, but they are usually single events, and most times, one can always decide one's reactions to such events.
FREEDOM WRITERS BOOK CHARACTERS MOVIE
The movie was everything about changing your destiny, and all through my life, I've never tolerated the 'fate' and 'destiny' philosophies that anyone dished out to me. Who doesn't love a rebel? And I mean a good rebel - someone who succeeds in something when everyone else expected him/her to fail. I didn't have too many expectations from it, but by the end of the movie, I loved it. At that point, I wasn't too keen on reading the book, but when I saw the movie pop up in my Netflix recommendations list, I decided to check it out.
I first heard of this book in Sheila's blog when she reviewed this during the Banned Books week last year. The The Freedom Writers Diary quotes below are all either spoken by Erin Gruwell or refer to Erin Gruwell. Someone else said, "She'll only last a day." "These kids are going to make this lady quit the first week," my friends were saying. I'm sure one of these days she's going to go to principal and ask for her leave, but then again, what else is new?
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