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Part VI: Diary 78
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 feels lucky at having a secure life filled with love, but feels solidarity with her/his classmates, many of whom have harrowing life stories to tell. S/he hopes that they can follow the Freedom Riders’ path and show their passion for tolerance and diversity by going to meet Richard Riley in Washington, D.C. S/he hopes that, by speaking out, they can make adults aware of their pain, and convince people of the validity of their message.
This student demonstrates that the Freedom Writers group is more than the sum of its parts, as the bonds that the students have formed among each other encourage them to stand up for the entire group and, more generally, for the good of society.
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