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Part VI: Diary 77
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
At the Freedom Writers’ concert, one of the students reads a poem he wrote about growing up without a father, being immersed in a murder-filled world, and living in the street, before finding hope and innocence again through his involvement with the Freedom Writers in Ms. Gruwell’s class.
This student identifies joining Ms. Gruwell’s class as a turning point in his life, giving him the strength necessary to overcome his difficult life circumstances. The Freedom Writers, it appears, gave him the support he needed to trust in himself.
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