Essays on Freedom Writers

The film, Freedom Writers, displays a story of a devoted teacher who works for a gang-filled school, and cannot find any backing or resources for her classroom since none of the faculty believes they will even pass freshmen year. And worse when the plot turns...

Freedom Writers, a movie directed by Richard LaGravenese and staring Hilary Swank, is a truly inspirational drama in which Erin Gruwell, a first year, freshman and sophomore class English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, teaches her class about more than just English, while learning...

Being broken can come in several forms. Broken can be described as being physical, emotional, or psychological. In stories that have a Healing Myth some characters are “broken” and must leave home to become whole again (Seger 373). “Lady, I’m lucky if I make it...

The character that I would like to focus on from “Freedom Writers” is Marcus. In my opinion this character has the most heart-breaking and warming parts in the film. What I’ve noticed about this character is a consistent, innate loyalty that I believe stems mostly...

The movie Freedom Writers is a book-to-film adaptation that follows the story of first year teacher Erin Gruwell and her at-risk students in room 203. The beginning of the movie is narrated by main protagonists Eva, who explains the strict moral code of taking care...

In his essay, Joyas Voladoras Brian Doyle explores what it means to be alive, more specifically how the end of life relates to the human experience. He does this through the lense of looking at the hearts of hummingbirds. This, however, is not uncharted territory...

The theme of Brian Doyle’s essay Joyas Voladoras is to lead a life with your heart, cherishing life’s every moment, because the time that we have on this earth is limited. Throughout the essay, Brian Doyle describes the life of a hummingbird, a blue whale,...