Book post 3

The movie the Gridiron Gang and the book The Freedom Writers Diary are similar because they are both about young adults who are living underprivledged lives. In the movie the Gridiron Gang the teenagers and young adults are inmates that are placed in a detentional camp for breaking the law. They are put under the care of Sean Porter, a probation officer who isn't willing to just write these violent offenders off. Sean Porter comes up with the idea to form a high school level football team. He comes up with this crazy idea inorder to try to get through to his adolsent inmates that maybe one day they could put their diffences aside, forget the past and actually have a shot at turning their lives around. He puts his job on the line to try and show these young adults that they too have the ability to change the outcome of theur lives. This movie is very similar to my book that I am reading, The Freedom Writers, because a young teacher comes into this school where the children aren't as well off as most. She goes out of her way to try to show her students that school can be a safe place for them. The idea she came up with was diaries that were private and no one else could read them except for her unless the student did not want her to read it either. This diary gave them a chance to express themselves and reach out for help in a quiet private way if needed. The reason why this book is so much alike to the movie The Gridiron Gang is because with both ideas that the teacher and probation officer come up with the students and children regect them and think they are stupid. Both of them bput their jobs on the line inorder to get through to their kids and show them they can change their lives but inorder to do that they need to let change happen.