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Part VIII: Diary 125
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 recalls her/his struggles with ADD, which used to lead her/him to act in uncontrollable, violent ways, but which s/he can now curb by taking medication. As a child, s/he had few friends, as people laughed at her/him a lot, but now feels that s/he makes friends more easily, and that s/he is even able to make intelligent audiences laugh. S/he feels excited to start college to meet equally quirky people who will accept her/him for who s/he is.
While this student recognizes that her/his attention disorder has made social life difficult for her/him at time, s/he sees it as an integral part of her-/himself and her/his personality, trusting that there are other people like her/him in the world whom s/he is only waiting to meet.
Themes
