Questions about the Freedom Writers

Why Ms Gruwell have the Freedom Writers study the Holocaust and meet Holocaust survivors?

The students studied the Holocaust just to be more sensitive about death. They kill each other because they’re from different ethnicities. Ms Gruwell tries to teach them the Holocaust because nobody wants that they kill themselves.



How did the Freedom Writers relate to Anne Frank? Give examples.


When they are in the streets, the Freedom Writers lives like soldiers in a war. They are always in danger like Anne during the World War II. The students are sometimes alone like Anne Frank too.


In what way Zlata Filipovic impacted the students lives? Give examples from several writers. What really surprised the Freedom Writers?

Zlata Filipovic impacted the students because she has lived many things that they are living now. In diary 38, the student says that Zlata and her/him have things in common. Zlata lived during the war and the student is living with a sort of war in the streets. She/He said that she/he lost her/his childhood just like Zlata. We can say that they both have lived more or less the same situations.

In diary 47, the writer says:”Now if you ask me what race I am, like Zlata, I’ll simply say, “I’m a human being.””How could you explain that quote? Do you relate to it?

I think the writer would say that even though people are different, we’re all the same. Even though a person is black or white or something else, we mustn’t forget that we are human being. Despite our differences we can’t pick over people from different races.

Freedom writers' diary

If I would like to invite someone I think I would invite somebody who lived during world war like Anne Frank. I'm sure we would learn many things about the war.

It's important to know how people live. If people never read anything about other people, they would live alone and ignorant.

If everyone lives under the same stereotype. It will means the end of the world. People have their own personnalities. If the people are the same we will have no change or differences and life is going to be boring. The jung children try to be like the older people, the problem with this situation is that as they grow up they would have no personnalities. They're just going to be the same.

There's four ethnicities in the class. There is one White guy and many Blacks, Latinos and Asians.

The "hood" is where the gangs live, there is violence, people use guns. This is how the "hood" is describing in the freedom writers diary.

In diary 12, the student says he had no contact with his parents when he was in juvenile hall.

In diary 12, the student says he was scared when he arrived in juvenile hall. He cried on his first night. When he got out he was paranoid.

The meaning is: we cannot judge a book without reading it.

The issues are violence, the guns, the gangs, the Kappa Zeta and drugs or alcohol in the streets.

We learn that he wasn't the first killed. All of this is a question of revenge. I think that this is very scary and stupid to kill like this.

He says that his teacher tries to help him but there is the kind of help he doesn't want. He says that there's another side but there really isn't.