Summary:
After reading more stories, a message is sent out from each story, and most of them are similar. The message they send out is, out lives are the same. But when you see life flash before your eyes, or when you see other people scoop down real low to end another life, what do you do? How do you react to it? How can you control your emotion? Where can you go? They experiences of these kids leave a blank and confused mind of what to do next, and how to get past what happen without crying every night.
Quote:
they say american is the "land of the free and home of the brave," but what's so free about a land where people get killed?
Reactions: my reactions where heart braking. Some people may think their lives in bad cause they live in boston or other reasons. But after reading about Thomas it changes everything. He had to fight threw two close death. His best friend was kidnap, beat up, then killed because of being shot in the head five times. His cousin died while diving home. They tried to rob his mom car while he and his mother was in the car. They shot him took the car and his mother had to hold her son until he died. And his last words was I love you. Now hoe do you get past that ?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Freedom Writers (Gruwell 1-56)
Summary:
This book is based on a real live event. An old English teacher at Wilson high school in long beach, California, confronted a room full of so called unreachable students that are at risk. In the book is chapters, and each chapter is a story, story that tell tragic events taken place in teenage kids life. They each explain a crazy experience that had to recover from. Such involving getting jump, buying a gun, juvenile hall, the projects, and even russian roulette. All those name were the tittle of story that was short words to describe a situation for them.
Quote:
"When I felt the rush of the air from his fist whizzing past my face, I went crazy? I started kicking him in the head? The only thing that made me stop was when I saw his eyes roll back in his head as though he was dead"
Reactions:
My reactions were and still is jaw dropping. The thought of situations that kids face in movies wouldn't seem to be real. But this book shows they can be true. These kids expect the unexpected because they seen what people would call the unthinkable. Such as in the quote where a kid was relaxing at the bus stop and some guys approach him teasing him and instead of them beating him up he ended up almost killing one of them.
This book is based on a real live event. An old English teacher at Wilson high school in long beach, California, confronted a room full of so called unreachable students that are at risk. In the book is chapters, and each chapter is a story, story that tell tragic events taken place in teenage kids life. They each explain a crazy experience that had to recover from. Such involving getting jump, buying a gun, juvenile hall, the projects, and even russian roulette. All those name were the tittle of story that was short words to describe a situation for them.
Quote:
"When I felt the rush of the air from his fist whizzing past my face, I went crazy? I started kicking him in the head? The only thing that made me stop was when I saw his eyes roll back in his head as though he was dead"
Reactions:
My reactions were and still is jaw dropping. The thought of situations that kids face in movies wouldn't seem to be real. But this book shows they can be true. These kids expect the unexpected because they seen what people would call the unthinkable. Such as in the quote where a kid was relaxing at the bus stop and some guys approach him teasing him and instead of them beating him up he ended up almost killing one of them.
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