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Freedom Writers
Characters
Marcus: Marcus is a young African American gang member who is portrayed as angry with the lifestyle he lives. He was kicked out of his mother's house for gang affiliation. When Marcus begins reading Anne Frank’s Diary he comes to realise that there is someone else that was their age that has an understanding of what he was going through.
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Erin Gruwell: Mrs G is a first time English teacher who struggles to teach and get the attention of her students. She doesn’t understand the lives her students live and that has failed to help her students, after earning their respect she pushes and encourages her students to achieve good grades so they can get the education they deserve and go to university. Ms G has overlooked the race and colour of her students and has improved their academic level unlike any other teacher would have done.
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Eva Benitez: Eva is a young Latino gang member whose father is highly respected within the community and has been wrongly imprisoned for the murder of a rival gang member. She becomes perplexed with the decision of betraying her own and saving an innocent young man from going to jail or lie to protect her own and in the process betray what she believes is right and experiences deja vu of her own father.
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Miep Gies: Ms Gies was Anne Frank’s secretary before the war, Mrs Gruwell’s English class at Wilson Highschool fundraisers money to bring her over to talk to them about the Holocaust and Anne Frank. Miep Gies’ told them that she hid the Franks but they were arrested for hiding, Ms Gies then tried to bribe the German officers into letting them go while risking her life of being killed.
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Context: Freedom Writers is a film set in the 1990's that establishes the unjust crime that happens in the streets of Long Beach, California. The context of the Freedom Writers was set just after the LA riots when gang violence was at an all time high, this escalated the motion of the rivalry between blacks, Asians and Latinos fighting for race, pride and respect. The gangs fight for justice for members wrongly imprisoned which leads to retaliation on rival gangs. The film also identifies Mrs G and the students fighting for the same rights and education the white privilege receives.
LA Riots:
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The fury of the acquittal erupted into the streets where riots broke out throughout South Central Los Angeles for five days. The riots led to residents setting fire to police departments and liquor stores. Light-skinned motorists were the main people targeted, both white and Latino.
The LA Riots erupted on the 29th of April 1992 after four white police officers were acquitted over the videotaped beating of a black, African-American motorist Rodney King. Rodney King led the four police officers on a high-speed chase while intoxicated, Mr King being uncooperative and resisting arrest was then brutally beaten with batons and was being continuously kicked.
Segregation
Segregation was the practice of keeping African Americans separate from white Americans and treating them differently because of the colour of their skin. White people received a better education, this law started around the 19th century.
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Integration
Integration is the practice of different races joining together as a whole and allows white people and African American people to live their lives equally. Integration is the policy that ended the notion of segregation.
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