The importance of tolerance in “Freedom Writers”
The movie Freedom Writers, which was released in 2007, it is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by the teacher Ms. Gruwell who wrote the story based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School. In the movie Freedom Writers, a teacher –Ms. Gruwell tried her best to reach out for the “unfit” students in classroom 203. The students in the class sit separately into racial groups. The students are intolerant because they grew up in an environment where there is hate towards one and another races. The students in the class always fight, therefore, most of the students stop coming to class. Ms. Gruwell tried to gain the students’ trust by buying them composition books and making students’ write
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The answer is one should respect the other party in order to earn the respect of the other party. The students in Ms. Gruwell class do not respect her. The blacks hate whites and the blacks do not trust the whites. Therefore, Ms. Gruwell find ways to understand why the students are behaving in this manner. Ms. Gruwell asks questions and listens to the students’ problems. Ms. Gruwell then buy books for them to improve their vocabulary. Moreover, she treats her students like human. Ms. Gruwell teaches them a lot about racism. Also, she brought them to the Museum of tolerance and invites a few Holocaust survivors to share about their experiences. Ms. Gruwell cared for them; treated them like normal people, and made them feel important. After all the things that were done by Ms. Gruwell, the students’ began to respect her and behave in the class. It is not an easy task, but Ms. Gruwell managed to overcome this obstacle and succeeded. She shocked her colleagues; they did not believe that the students’ in classroom 203 would obey Ms. Gruwell.
In addition, in the movie Freedom Writers shows that how empowerment can change an individual’s live. The students’ begin to see their potential after Ms. Gruwell convinced them about their self-worth. The students also felt more empowered take academic seriously in the classroom. Furthermore, the students’ in the classroom graduate from high school and went to college, even though most of them thought they couldn’t even make it through the ninth grade. Most importantly, the students felt empowered to associate with their