FREEDOM WRITERS

By: Didimus Estanto T.

FREEDOM WRITERS

The freedom writers is a very wonderful film. Firstly I want to say thank for giving this.

The first moral value that I want to write it down is ‘the spirit of passion’. It supposes to be courage I think, but I would like to find another phrase. The spirit of passion is mostly about Ms. Gruwell. The spirit of her passion to learn her kids is very terrific. In the beginnings of her carrier of being teacher her father had took some doubt  in it. The principle also takes no support for her. Even that, she still make her best for the student who even give no respect to her. She tries her best. She takes more than one job to fulfil his ‘job’. One of her strong comes from her husband that “you are teacher because you say you are” its make her strong to face it all. The strongest burden that she faced I think is when her soul mate leaves her. The one who she loves very much, that lying every night with her, make her to be strong can’t be right beside her anymore. When she almost culminates her biggest passion, she lost something in hand.  She’s just doing something that she supposes to be doing and she love it, but she lose her treasure. She loves her job, she has find something that make her happy and she don’t wanna leave it. She is still standing up and facing the world that she has already chosen. It show the power of her passion, it prove the first word that she say when she apply “I really want to be here”. The interesting one that I find in the film is when Andre got F for his assignment she says that “This F means fuck for me”. I think that word means that she is really love her class and want to make them success. It means she is wonderful teacher too. As a teacher the word that I love coming from her mount is “Every voice that told you ‘you can’t’ is silenced”. It’s beautiful I think. Her passion make her could stand to the end. She is very strong.

The second one that I love t write down is ‘feels home’. I rather to use this phrase than pluralism, even that both of them refers to same thing. Feels home is more positive I think. Feels home in this film mostly talk about the students. They come from very different background with the general issue of class of people and crime everywhere.  They come with their own story, they come with their own revenge and they come with their own aim. Firstly they can’t fix each other because they are different. In the process of learning Ms. Gruwell makes them one. Some games that show their same, feel their agony together make them feel that they are same. Ms. G makes them have a hope, better hope of tomorrow. The process in the class make them ‘cool’ with each other, eva said. They feel something comfortable like really home. They fell something that call them every day, that make them feels missed. It’s happened when Ms.G will not teach them next semester. They are afraid of losing one of them. It is home. The felling of comfortable that they have never fell before.  “You are home” Ms. G said to them. They are one now. They can tolerate with others and can make everything together, the real class happens here. Home make all the pluralism feels one. No different anymore, we are family in this class. To make it one Ms. G say ‘I did what I had to, because it was the right thing to do’.