Lifelong Learning

ok...actually I review this movie because I have to retell it in public speaking class. why do I choose this movie? It's because I think this movie is great and it is the spectacle that must be watched by a teacher.

Freedom Writers is a movie based on the true story of the life of a teacher in Long Beach, California, Erin Gruwell (played by Hillary Swank). Erin worked as an English teacher when the racism was the main issue. Erin taught English in the classroom 203, where there were diverse racial gang who always clustered, such as race cambodia, black, and one white.

In the early arrival of Erin, the students had no interest in his presence. They were very sentiment towards white people. They assumed that Erin did not understand anything about their lives is hard, life is always in the shadow of war and violence. For them, life is how they are "survivors" of violence, until the shooting on behalf of "race".

Many challenges had to be faced by Erin, both of the schools that are racist, until the husband and father. Discrimination was performed by the school, such as separation of classes, as well as facilities that subtle differences between the white race and the race beyond that made Erin sad. To be accepted by the children of students, Erin looking for ways to approach and appropriate teaching methods. However, since Erin was busy with the approach to children and working part-time students, new problems arise, she was divorced by her husband. Until finally, his father, who initially did not support, turned to support the work Erin.
But Erin was not discouraged to keep trying to approach the students.


Erin familiar with the conditions of children in groups with students who are always their own race. Finally, he found a way to "reach out" their lives by giving them books, and asked them to fill it with a daily journal. In fact, when schools discriminate book facilities, Erin was willing to work part time (part time) in several places in order to raise money to buy books that were unable to read by them, that Anne Frank's diary (The Diary of Anne Frank)-a Jewish victim Holocaust. Since reading the daily journal that talked about their hard life, Erin increasingly eager to change the lives of young protege, and delete an invisible boundary that separates their culture in ways that amazing.

In this film we also can see how the effort of Erin to bring a woman helper Anne Frank, the Jewish children who lived in the days of Hitler and his holocaust. He brought her To share their stories to the students of a "disaster" that happened because of racism, as well as other efforts Erin who got the challenge of school parties.

Finally, Erin's persistence in educating their fruitful results. Those children, who initially hate each other because the differences of race, eventually became friends and break down racial barriers between them. In fact, when there are shootings that befell a friend of her student, he teaches about the meaning of honesty.