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Eva doesn't know how to calm down. When she get's angry she get's really angry and fights other people all the time. What do you remember most clearly about the character?
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I remember Eva as a really mean and tough looking girl, but then I remember after she finally stood up for herself she looks less tough and less can and more scared of what might happen to her. Miep refers to the Mrs. Gruwell's students as heroes. Actress Jacyln Ngan plays the role of Sindy who's boyfriend was shot and killed in a convenient store but she moves past the incident and becomes good friends with Eva.
Victoria, played by Giovonnie Samuel , is an honors student who requested to be placed in Mrs. Gruwell's lower level class because he had heard such great things about it. Patrick Dempsey acts as Scott who feels neglected and unworthy of Erin because of all her accomplishment, and decides to leave her. This site was designed with the. As a witness, Eva must testify in court; she intends to guard "her own" in her testimony.
The next day at school, Erin examines a racist drawing by one of her Latin American students and utilizes it to teach the class about the Holocaust , which everyone, except for White student Ben Samuels Hunter Parrish , has no knowledge of. She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys composition books for them to use as diaries, in which they talk about their experiences of being evicted, being abused, and seeing their loved ones die.
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Determined to reform her students, Erin takes on two part-time jobs to pay for more books and activities, and spends a lot more time at school, much to the disappointment of her husband, Scott Patrick Dempsey. A transformation is specifically visible in one student, Marcus Jason Finn. Erin invites several Jewish Holocaust survivors to talk with her class about their experiences and requires the students to attend a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance.
The students start to realize that being rivals against each other, just based on race, should not be a reason to prohibit their friendships with one another. Meanwhile, her unique training methods are scorned by her colleagues and department chair Margaret Campbell Imelda Staunton. The following school year comes and Erin teaches her class now sophomores again, making it the second year that she is their teacher.
On the first day, Erin makes her class propose a "Toast for Change", allowing everyone to open up about their struggles and what they wish to change about themselves. Later on, the class makes enough money to have Miep Gies Pat Carroll come to the United States and tell her story of her helping Anne Frank , her family, and the Van Pels hide from the Nazis ; she then also persuades the students that they are heroes and that they "within their own small ways, [can] turn on a small light in a dark room.
These two events inspire Eva to tell the truth, breaking free of the demands of her father to always protect her own. At Grant's trial, she shocks the courtroom by revealing that Paco actually killed Sindy's boyfriend at the scene; Grant is spared of being convicted while Paco is sentenced, Sindy later forgives Eva. Afterward, Eva is attacked and threatened, but ultimately spared by her fellow gang members, who dissociate from her, and she moves in with her aunt for safety.
Meanwhile, Erin asks her students to write their diaries in book form. She compiles the entries and names it The Freedom Writers Diary. Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of interstate buses in Durning served as co-executive producer of the film. The film was dedicated to the memory of actor Armand Jones, who was killed after filming Freedom Writers.
He was fatally shot at age 18 in Anaheim, California , after a confrontation with a man who robbed Jones of a necklace in a Denny's restaurant.
In , in Long Beach, California , Erin Gruwell has been hired to teach Freshman English for at-risk students at Woodrow Wilson High School , a formerly prestigious school that has declined since voluntary integration had been enforced and where racial tension has increased since the Los Angeles riots two years before. Erin struggles to form a connection with her students and observes numerous fights between some of them, who are in rival gangs.
She attempts to instill respect, but they ignore her and continue to be disruptive in class. The second day of school, much of the student body is involved in a massive brawl when one of Erin's Hispanic students Eva Benitez lets her boyfriend Paco onto the campus with their fellow gang members.
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Erin goes home upset and distraught as she had witnessed another one of her Hispanic students Alejandro Santiago bring a gun to school. One night, Eva goes into a convenience store while Paco and two other friends stay in the car. Her classmate and rival Sindy Ngor, who is a Cambodian refugee, her boyfriend, and another friend also enter the store.
African American student Grant Rice, frustrated about losing an arcade game, demands a refund from the store owner.
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The store owner becomes angry with Grant in return and orders him to leave the store. As Grant storms out, Paco as retaliation for losing a fight against him during the school brawl earlier attempts to kill him, but misses and accidentally kills Sindy's boyfriend, while Grant flees the scene and is later arrested for the homicide.
As a witness, Eva must testify in court; she intends to guard "her own" in her testimony and protect Paco. The next day at school, Erin examines a racist drawing by her student Tito and utilizes it to teach the class about the Holocaust , which everyone, except for White student Ben Samuels, has no knowledge of. Erin has them play a game called "the line game," and by seeing that they have all been through traumatic experiences, the students start becoming closer to one another.
Erin gradually begins to earn their trust and buys composition books for them to use as diaries, in which they write about their experiences of being evicted, being abused, and seeing their loved ones die.
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Determined to reform her students, Erin takes on two part-time jobs to pay for more books and activities and spends more time at school, much to the disappointment of her husband, Scott. He tells her he is unhappy because she didn't consult him about the new jobs. A transformation is specifically visible in one student, Marcus. He uses his library books to learn more about the Holocaust.
Erin invites several Jewish Holocaust survivors to talk with her class about their experiences and requires the students to attend a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance. The students start to realize that being different races should not be a reason to prohibit friendships between one another. Meanwhile, her unique training methods are scorned by her colleagues and department chair, Margaret Campbell.