Analyzing The Movie 'Toast For Change'

Freedom Writers is true story based movie showing racism and social disorder life in America. The movie starts showing racial tension and riots in the society among different ethnic minority groups fighting for their rights. In the beginning of the movie a childhood of a young girl Eva is shown who sees racial differences among people getting prestige and grace on how they physically appear. From an early age a negative thought is internalized into the young girl that “a girl can be crowned as a princess for her beauty and grace while an ‘Aztec’ princess is chosen for her blood”. As a young girl her father socializes her in a way to fight for her rights against those who think she is less than them in beauty and blessings. As a small girl she sees war between ethnic minority groups for pride and prestige, and sees her uncle shot down and her father taken away by (white) police officers. At an early age she enters gang life
On the first day of sophomore semester, Gruwell makes her class do a "Toast for Change", allowing everyone to open up about their struggles and how they would attempt to change each. (This title - "Toast for Change", reoccurs for the themes of their fundraisers). In class, when reading The Diary of Anne Frank, they invite Miep Gies (Pat Carroll), the woman who sheltered Anne Frank from the German soldiers to talk to them. After they raise the money to bring her over, Miep shares her experiences hiding Anne Frank. When Marcus tells her that she is his hero, she denies it, claiming she was merely doing the right thing. Her denial leads Eva to rethink her plan to lie during her testimony. When she testifies, she finally breaks down and tells the truth, much to some of her family members' dismay and to her own risk. She gets attacked by members of her gang and ends up going to live with her aunt in order to keep herself