The book "True Notebooks" has really allowed me to see whats life like in a place I have never been--a Juvenile Detention Center. When I read the book, the movie Freedom Writers pops up in my head. I think that the idea and the climax of each are very simular.
In the book, the author is a writing teacher to urban students in jail.
In the movie, the teacher is a writing teacher to urban students that go to a an urban school and some of them have been in jail. Both the author and the teacher in the movie, have allowed the students to tap into their emotions and indentify their challenges and past times.
This book seems like a pretty clear connection to the movie, but this posting doesn't tell us a lot about your experiences with the movie and the text. What does it mean to read or watch somebody else's experiences; especially if the experiences present a world you haven't experienced or cannot know?
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