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.