The Freedom writers story has been tolled through Two perspectives. One of the perspectives is told through a book that was handwritten by the students who called themselves the freedom writers. The other is through a movie that was produced by Danny Devito, Stacey sher, and Michael shamberg.
The perspective of the book is very detailed because the book solely revolves around the students telling their experiences or what is happening around or in their life or as the books calls it their “Diaries”. The movie is very different in a lot of ways but in the book It starts off with Ms.Gruwell’s Diary on the whole four years . In Ms.Gruwell’s Diary she first talks about (Freshman Year) She begins her very first Diary speaking about how she is very…show more content… Where Ms.Gruwell lives she refers to it as “Utopia” because some of the neighborhoods she sees around. Her student’s tell her she should wear a bulletproof vest instead of the pearls she usually wears but she believes that the students are over exaggerating. The school is located in a nice neighborhood it’s just a few miles away from the beach which makes the school desirable for students all around the city. The school is so desirable that students from the hood take two to three buses to get to school. Different kid’s such as poor, rich, race, and religion all sit around each other but because of riots there has been tention going throughout the school from gangs. The gangs are made up of Asians, African americans, and Latin Americans. Wilson high used to be a white upper class school until many of the other races enrolled into the school. Ms.Gruwell’s new class came with a student who’s a junior by the name of sharaud he hated English, wilson high school, and Ms.Gruwell but one student got tired of him and drew a racial picture of a boy with abnormally large lips and passed it around the class .The whole class laughed at it and when it reached sharaud he opened up…show more content… The movie then Transitions to a young girl named Eva and how aztec princesses are chosen from their blood and she has her father taken right in front of her by white police officers because he is well respected in the Latin American Gang. Eva Speaks about how the mexican gang took her in and they are her family She also speaks about how every day she walks outside she’s taking a risk of being shot at because there are two other Rival gangs the Asians and the African Americans. The first day of Freshmen Year Ms.Gruwell takes a look inside the Honors classroom and likes what she sees she then walks into the classroom and is disgusted because there is graffiti written everywhere all the desks are old the walls have not been painted in a while. As Ms.Gruwell awaits for her students she notices that both bells have rang and her students have not arrived. Ms.Gruwell’s students have to be escorted to class because otherwise they would not attend. All the students sat with their own race when Andre and jamal begin to argue in the middle of class Ms.Gruwell has a discussion of the incident in class and he tells her that it’s ok and later in her future she will be able to teach juniors and seniors. Eva speaks about how her PO threatened her if she did not go to school she would be going to boot camp but school is like
