Freedom Writers Responce

When we were watching Freedom Writers on Netflix in our dorm, many of our friends who were not even in our class came and watched it with us. A few of them have seen this movie and said it was a great movie. It was my first watching it and I really enjoyed it. It was really educational, inspirational and touching. It not only related to many of the CRT tenets, but also helped me develop better idea about racism

The most obvious CRT tenets that applied to this movie were number 5 “everyone has a complex and compound identity” and number 6 “everyone has a unique story to tell and to contribute to U.S. history.” Through the dailies, Ms.Gruwell got to know each student and their unique stories. I was surprised that most of the students wanted Ms.G to read their dailies. In the beginning, everyone in Ms. Gruwell’s Freshman English didn't respect her. But after Ms.G’s continuously attempted to get to know her students and treated them like her family, they started to accept Ms.G. Ms.G helped and guided those “students who can’t learn” to find their value to live. She encouraged them to put all their dailies together, not to publish, but for those students to know their values.  

Another thing that caught my attention was when the Hispanic/Mexican girl (I am not sure her ethnicity) decided to tell the truth in the court room, rather than protect her own people. Her mother and her people were all angry at her and call her a traitor. But she knows she did the right thing and she will always have Ms.G by her side. I thought it was amazing how big of change Ms.G brought to each and everyone of the student's life.