Reflection On Erin Gruwell

1. Erin Gruwell is a Young high school teacher that works in Eva´s school. She is very committed to her job and in the students. She is very motivated to get these kids who experience violence everyday to learn. Eva is one of the main characters who is a high school student in Erin´s English class. She comes from a poor family where her boyfriend is a gang member.One night she whitness a man getting shot by her boyfriend in a grocery store. She battles everyday weather she´s going to lie in the court to defend her boyfriend and family, or to tell the truth. This is very hard for her because the man who got shot is Sindy´s friend The only person who knows the truth is Sindy, who is also in Mrs. Gruwell´s English class. Marcus

This creates lots of prejudism between the gangs, and even racism. In one scene of the movie, the Latinos where spreading a racist scetch of a black class member with exadurated lips.

Alienation
I think the students of the intergration program have a somewhat alienated position. The school used to be accademicly great and the teachers look down on the new pupils. They treat them differently compared to the hounor students and think they should be happy to even graduate.
Erin is both alienated by the other teachers and the pupils in the beginning of freshman year. The students have no respect for her and thinks she´s trying too hard. She´s very well dressed, is highly educated and the students cannot imagine why she would be capable to teach them so they ignore and disrespect her.

The line game
It woks like this: Erin gires a proposition. For example ”everybody who knows someone who´s been gun threatened, stand on this line. The result is that the kids realize that they have more in common then they think, and that all prejudeces or different skin color doesn´t matter because they´re all humans who lead very simular

I understand that he wanted her to spend more time with him but maybe they could´ve just talked about it and comed to a solution.
Personal reflection
I have learnt many things from he movie. One is that the cure to prejudices and racism is knowledge and understanding other peoples situation. Erin realizes that they know nothing about the holocaust and how nazism and racism leads to terrible things. So she makes them read Anne frank so they can understand that hate does not solve hate. She also makes them really good friend so they don´t have any reasons to hate each other
I´ve also learnt the importance of having someone believing in you. Both of Erin´s dad believing in he and in her believing in the kids. For the first time they felt like the were appriciated by the school and I think that led to motivation and many students who kept on with their academics in college.
I can relate to some of their fear i can relate to a few characters on different