1. Why did Ms Gruwell have the Freedom Writers study the Holocaust and meet Holocaust survivors?

2. How did the Freedom Writers relate to Anne Frank? Give examples.

3. In what way Zlata Filipovic impacted the students’ lives? Give examples from several writers. What really surprised the Freedom writers?

4.In diary 47, the writer says: ”Now if you ask me what race I am, like Zlata, I’ll simply say, “I’m a human being.””How could you explain that quote? Do you relate to it?


1. Ms Gruwell have the Freedom Writers study the Holocaust survivors because in the holocaust was racism and she thinks that there isn't difference between the Jews and the black people in her school.

2. The Freedom Writers relate to Anne Frank because they want to meet her because of her corage during the second world war. But they don't know that Anne Frank is dead years ago.

3. Zlata had a lot of corage and the Freedom Writers were interested in her generosity because she did a lot of good things.