the 1st assignment of the class of Movie English

Movie English Assignment 1

1. A: In the city, all people divided into separate sections, depending on tribes, and the school and the city are similar. All of students divided in same way. However, at the beginning in the movie, a boy who lives in The Ghetto walked up to the Mexican students. He tried to be cool.  Each groups looks to have the territory as an unspoken rule. What the boy walked up was a violation of the rule, and it made a tense atmosphere among them. As a result, they started to fight. “Something” means the fighting.

2. A: Voluntary integration means abolishing of the racial discrimination. The teacher of the honor class said voluntary integration shouldn’t have been introduced, and he said “Please tell me your opinion as an African American.” when he asked an African American girl’s view. The girl said he asked her as if she represented whole of African Americans. The head teacher treated the students of Erin’s class as worthless people to be educated. She didn’t want to buy texts for the students.

 I disagree with the attitudes of these teachers. They are teachers and responsible to teach their students and they should behave in the way to do voluntary integration. However, they did an opposite action. They didn’t have to do like Erin, but they must have taken efforts to teach the students better.

3. A: The students were in the situation that they were divided into separate section depending on tribes. The situation was similar to the Holocaust. Miep Gies was trying to say they can do “voluntary integration” in their own way, and she tried to encourage the students.

 If I could put this statement into practice in my own life, I can’t do anything special, but I can do ordinary things. For example, I will help others when anyone has troubles.

4. A: The purpose of the “toast for change” is to have the students decide to change and to tell others their decision or their ideas on their own. The students have been said “You can’t do!” or “You are worthless!” To change meant that they get over the idea like those.

 It was effective in helping the students. The Mexican girl was forced to testify against the accused who was an African American student. She was in a dilemma between to testify the truth and to testify against the accused, but, at last, she testified the truth. She was blamed Mexicans. This example shows it was effective in helping the students. She was changed and took the choice believed it was right.

5. A: “Freedom Riders” is a movement for equality. When it was found that Erin couldn’t stay in charge of the class of the students for third year, they said to fight like “Freedom Riders”. Also, in the last part of the movie, the narrator said “… we became writers with our own voice and pride.”  “Freedom Writers” is imitated “Freedom Riders”, and it means they are writes fighting for equality in their city and changing their surroundings. These are reasons why they decided to call their book “Freedom Writes”.

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