This week:
Describe how writing in journals(In the movie Freedom Writters) helps transform the lives of the students. How does writing 'free' the students from their pain.
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In the movie, Ms. Gruwell given each of her students a journal so that they could write their daily stories in it, whether is about the past, present, or future. They can write poems, draw or anything in this journal, the main condition is that they must write it everyday.
So here's the question, do you have a journal/diary? Why do you need one? In the movie Freedom Writters, Ms. Gruwell had make her students to express themselves indirectly through the journals. Writing in the journals helps them to understand more about their experiences, their environment, their own feelings. It helps them to remove their stress,pain, depression and anxiety. This journal makes them feel like their talking to someone about their feelings. At the same time helping them to move on without feeling guilty of anything. Like me, I always write my feelings in an e-journal so that I could let go some 'weight' of my shoulder cause life is hard, not everyone will listen to us, sometimes they even think we're doing something wrong yet useless. This is why students nowadays feeling stress out, thinking the only ways to be happy is to be away... But anyway, back to my point. Writing in journals can help us being us, in an easy way.
