The book "The Freedom Writers Diary" is written by Erin Gruwell's students.It talks about the students lives .In this book we can see how they live in Long Beach,California, and what kind situation they can be confronted to like drugs,jail,domestic violence...
I will talk about the domestic violence.
Diary 63 talk about a latino girl who is abused by her boyfriend.Everything began when he slapped her and he started to call her names.But she didn't do anything to stop him,because she loved him and they need each other,I quote "we were like a fire triangle, he was the oxygen,I was the flame,and together we made the fuel.All mixed together we were a fire.
In diary 64, there is a girl whose stepdad keeps hitting her mom and her.

Questions about the Freedom Writers

Question 1: Because the Freedom Writers didn't know what the Holocaust is, and because Mrs Gruwell wants to show them what racism leads to. Their situation in the "hood" is similar to the Holocaust.

Question 2: The Freedom writers think that Anne Frank looks like them.For example,in diary 37 the person says:"I'm beginning to realize that Anne Frank, Zlata Filipovic, and I have a lot in common."

Question 3:She impacted their lives because she is young but she lives an adult situation.They are surprised to see that in Europe the situation for some people is similar to theirs.

Question 4: I think that before the meeting with Zlata,she thinks that every ethnicity is different and now she (diary 47) understands that race isn't the most important thing in a person and that every ethnicity should be equal.

Freedom writers' diary

I would like to invite Marthin Luter King or Malcolm X because they represent the

poursuit of happiness for black people and muslim people and they were killed for

their opinion, but their death changed the world.

If you read books about different people,you're going to understand them and why they understand you.
Anne Frank didn't live like their but her life was dangerous like the Freedom Writers'.

The danger of stereotype is to hate an ethnicity in particular.For exemple, people are afraid when they see 2 black guys at night because they think blacks are going to kill them.

I think that we can beak free from stereotypes when we are educated and if we keep a good spirit .I think it's important because if we don't there will be a lot of discrimination.

In this book(freedom writers diary),the students come from different ethnicities like black,asian,latinos(mexican),little bit white.

The "hood" is constituted of housing projects,it's far from the gated communities and school.It's very dangerous,there is racial tension,you can be threatened,jacked,jumped...

In the "hood",there are wars between different races.

The role the students' parents have is limited because they can't help their children ( they work a lot to make ends meet, the fathers have often left home), but I think they love them and sometimes the students don't have parents,like in diary 13.

The students' experience of Juvenile Hall is really bad, one of the student cried the first night,he was scared to be in jail because they are gangs in jail too.
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