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Part III: Diary 24
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Freedom Writers Diary, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Race, Ethnicity, and Tolerance
Education and Healing
Family and Home
Violence, War, and Death
Summary
Analysis
This student, who has a lung disease, cystic fibrosis, is forced to spend a few weeks in the hospital, even though school has just started. He is waiting for a lung transplant, without which he would only have a few years left to live. He says that she will miss his friends and Ms. Gruwell, who have been very supportive, and that school is one of the few things he loves.
This student is forced to face death in a completely different way from others, as the threat of death comes from within him, not from the unfair violence of the streets. As a result, this student’s attitude is much more serene, as he proves grateful for the joys that life brings him.
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