mbak nana,
saya 1 minggu lalu menonton film ini,
gara gara film ini saya membukukan tulisan saya dalam bentuk ebook.
penuh inspirasi ,khususnya bagi mereka yang pernah menjadi guru.
walaupun sebentar (seperti saya , 3 bulan saja jd guru sd di pelosok
banyumas. ga tahan... duitnya dikit )
he...
salam,
edy
pekalongan
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> When doing small researches to write a paper I entitled "America – A
Dream that Has Not Come True" in African American Literature Class and
another paper I entitled "'Salad Bowl' and `Anti Semitism' in Elmer
Rice's Street Scene" in Modern American Literature class in 2003, I
was wondering if racial prejudice portrayed in "Street Scene" and
racial discrimination illustrated in Langston Hughes' poem—Will V-Day
Be Me-Day Too?—can still be easily found in America at the end of the
twentieth century and in the beginning of the twenty first century.
> When watching FREEDOM WRITERS, a movie inspired by a real event in
Long Beach California that happened at the last decade of the
twentieth century, I got the answer of that question of mine. Racial
prejudice, racial violence, racial discrimination, or whatever people
call it, still exists in the land Langston Hughes mentioned as a dream
country for million immigrants with various color skins in his poem
"Freedom's Plow". The movie starts with live news on TV showing gang
violence and racial tension causing more than 120 people killed,
following the Rodney King riots. It is followed by a depiction of how
a Latino father raises his daughter—Eva Benita, one central character
in the movie—to be the next generation of a gangster. The marginalized
communities living in Long Beach—say Latino, Asians, and Black—believe
that they have to fight each other for territory, kill each other over
race, pride, and respect. In short, I can say that Long Beach is the
"modern" area of the
> cheap tenement portrayed by Elmer Rice in his realistic play STREET
SCENE (1929). What I mean "modern" here is people using more advanced
`media' to show their prejudice and hatred against different races,
such as guns. In Long Beach, people are divided into some separate
sections, depending on tribes. The Latinos get along with their own
tribe, so do the Asians and Blacks. They openly show their hatred to
each other. However, they can become united when facing the mainstream
of America—the Whites.
> For the marginalized tribes' hatred toward the Whites, Eva said,
"White people always want to be respected as if they deserve to get it
for free. It is all about colors. It is all about people deciding what
you deserve; about people wanting what they don't deserve; about white
people thinking they can get anything … no matter what."
> The amazing aspect from the movie is the way Erin Gruwell, one white
English teacher working for Woodrow Wilson High School chosen by the
government to be reform school with voluntary integration program to
win her students' hearts—many of them are just out of juvenile prison
due to gang fights—to make them want an education and believe that the
education will better their future. Failing to get her students'
attention on the first day, slowly Erin succeeds making them united to
be hostile to her due to her white complexion. Later on Erin can get
their attention and make them interested to read the books she buys
for them, although it means she has to have an extra job to get money
to buy the books. After making them interested to read the books she
provides, Erin eventually succeeds making them realize that education
will really change their future to be better. Nevertheless, her hard
work and much time she dedicates for her students result in divorce
because her
> husband—feeling neglected—does not agree with her way of living.
Besides, Erin realizes that her happiness is gathered when she can
help her students aware the meaning of their lives, and not just as a
wife of a man.
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> This amazing movie is produced by Double Feature Films Production.
Hilary Swank plays as Erin Gruwell, Patrick Dempsey as Scott Casey,
Erin's husband, Scott Glenn as her father, who always supports
anything Erin does for her students, and April Lee Hernandez as Eva
Benita.
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> P.S.: You can view my post at
http://afeministblo
paper "America - A Dream that Has Not Come True Yet" and my other post
at
http://afeministblo
for my paper on STREET SCENE
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> Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
> (Sir James Dewar)
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> THANK YOU
> Best regards,
> Nana
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