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Part VI: Diary 70
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
Ms. Gruwell shares with her students a letter that Miep Gies wrote them. This student identifies with Miep because, in the same way that Miep still thinks of Anne, s/he, too, cannot stop thinking about one of her/his friends who died, and wants to write about it so that this friend’s death will not be in vain.
While death can be deeply unjust, it can also give its witnesses the strength and motivation to denounce injustice, taking on the moral responsibility to change the world so that such catastrophes never happen again.
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