Freedom writers
Freedom Writers
Task 1: The Narrative Elements
Characterisation
Erin Gruwell- Erin Gruwell was a young English teacher in a school in Long Beach, California she is a passionate teacher who gives up at nothing to help and teach her students
Eva and Sindy – They both hate each other as they come from different gangs, but when it comes down to it they are extremely similar and have been through the same sort of situations as shown in the scene where they are both are getting ready to go out.
Setting
Wilson High school
California
Museum of Tolerance
Holocaust Museum
Bosnian War
1994
Narrative Structure
Erin Gruwell begins to teach at Wilson High school in the lowest level of English which has a vast verity of different cultures and gangs throughout it.
Gang rivalry learn about fighting for your own and protection your own and about how everything’s about respect
Mrs Gruwell is very accepting of her students and starts to build a bond with them and trust in one another
Mrs Gruwell learns about their everyday lives and the things they go through and finds a way for them to learn and relate things that significant others such as Anne Frank have gone though.
Theme
stereotypes: one of the main themes in this film is stereotypes. It is shown thought out the whole movie for example how Eva feels about white people after then took her father away for doing nothing she reflects these actions against all white people saying things like
“White people wanting respect like they deserve it for free. “
“It's all about colour, it's about people deciding what you deserve, about people wanting what they don't deserve. About whites thinking they own this world no matter what, you see, I hate white people.” Narrative Perspective
In the film you see the students perspective and the adults view on things
The students show us their point of view by writing in the journals that Mrs Gruwell gave them to write in about anything they wanted.
We see Mrs Gruwell’s point of view
Task 1: The Narrative Elements
Characterisation
Erin Gruwell- Erin Gruwell was a young English teacher in a school in Long Beach, California she is a passionate teacher who gives up at nothing to help and teach her students
Eva and Sindy – They both hate each other as they come from different gangs, but when it comes down to it they are extremely similar and have been through the same sort of situations as shown in the scene where they are both are getting ready to go out.
Setting
Wilson High school
California
Museum of Tolerance
Holocaust Museum
Bosnian War
1994
Narrative Structure
Erin Gruwell begins to teach at Wilson High school in the lowest level of English which has a vast verity of different cultures and gangs throughout it.
Gang rivalry learn about fighting for your own and protection your own and about how everything’s about respect
Mrs Gruwell is very accepting of her students and starts to build a bond with them and trust in one another
Mrs Gruwell learns about their everyday lives and the things they go through and finds a way for them to learn and relate things that significant others such as Anne Frank have gone though.
Theme
stereotypes: one of the main themes in this film is stereotypes. It is shown thought out the whole movie for example how Eva feels about white people after then took her father away for doing nothing she reflects these actions against all white people saying things like
“White people wanting respect like they deserve it for free. “
“It's all about colour, it's about people deciding what you deserve, about people wanting what they don't deserve. About whites thinking they own this world no matter what, you see, I hate white people.” Narrative Perspective
In the film you see the students perspective and the adults view on things
The students show us their point of view by writing in the journals that Mrs Gruwell gave them to write in about anything they wanted.
We see Mrs Gruwell’s point of view