Ideas about justice and injustice
Freedom writers: justice in context
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Marcus
Eva
Erin Gruwell
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Freedom writers is a very unique film that explores justices and injustices in many different ways. Set after the LA riots is shown how in schools how there is still segregation and racism even though intergration in schools has occurred. The film explores all different things effecting the teenagers lives fri, gang violence to inequality to racism
Assertive language
Assertive tone and high modality language
Juxtaposition
“ I don’t see no one else that look like me with their pockets full of money unless they rapping a lyric or dribbling a ball .”
This explains to the audience that the stereotypes have been carried out from generation to generation leading the students to not try or want to go to college or university.
This stuns the responders with the language being so direct yet so true. This unravels some problems that other races have to face with white superiority.
“ it’s all about colour. It’s about people deciding what you deserve. About whites thinking they run this world no matter what. You see I hate white people.”
The juxtaposition of, innocently buying snacks/ playing games/ hanging out then sudden death occurs
This shows the audience just how brutal and easy coming environments death can come in even if it’s sudden or not there would still be mass effects.
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Eva is a Mexican who’s father was taken to jail when she was young. This force lead her into the gang life where she has been “protecting” her family with her life, she believes that if she dies that she will have honour if it’s for protecting “ her people”.
“ we kill each other over race, pride and respect”
Marcus is an African American who at a young age was sent to juvenile jail because his friend shot himself and because of his colour Marcus was arrested. Throughout the movie you can see that Marcus is angry, shy and held back because of what happened in his childhood. When Marcus got into the gang life he was kicked of of his home from his mother and he was forced to live on the streets.
“Dead body, a gun and a nigger”
Erin Gruwell is a just new starting teacher who’s ambition for the integration program brung her to the school of Woodrow Wilson High School. She has was an English teacher with rather different teaching methods she is outgoing , courageous and intelligent she see's the struggle and the help that her students need. In doing so she had to help them and that’s exactly what she did, she change the teenagers lives making them better and happier people living longer lives than what they would had lived in the gang lives.
“Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.”