Choose a diary entry that most effects you or one that you can relate to and explain why. What stood out to you? How did it make you feel? What would you do in this situation? How would you help this person? How does it make you feel to know that kids your age are going through these situations?
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diary 64
i chose this diary because just last week my brother was hiding from my dad because he was in a bad mood an when my pops found him he started beating him and this relates to celie and the girl who wrote this diary but when i went to help my brother i hit my dad and shoved him down the stairs and he didn't talk to me for the rest of the week. Which i was fine with but now my brother comes to me with any problems that he has.
i can relate to diary 66 the most because when i was 8 years old the doctors made a mistake and "accidentally" killed my mom. it saddens me and maddens me to know that im not the only person thats going through this crap and that kids my age have to put up with it.
The diary entry that affected me the most was diary 66 because of the student's brother Kevin died. I know what it is like to know that someone you love is dieing and there is nothing you can do. I have had one of my great aunts die and a grandmother I never met die because of cancer. The most sad part for me seeing family members that were close to them suffer from grief. I could not do anything in this situation to help but comfort the family members. I could help this person by letting them know they are not the only person out there that has experienced this pain. It makes me very sad to know that other people are suffering too.
diary 63, this diary affects me the most, not because i can relate or i know someone that has the same feeling but because the way she describes it with detail i can feel her pain. the thing that stood out to me is that she just kept coming back to him. i would have left him the minute he touch me that way. i wouldn't know how to help her because i doubt that they would listen because she loves him so much
diary 66. the kid talks about losing his/her brother. 6 days after my 14th birthday, we got a call saying that my Nana/grandma was having breathing problems. My mom and i had thought it was just another effect but it wasn't. When we walked into the hospital they took us to a counseling room. the doctor came in after and told us she hadn't made it. i couldn't cry for her, it was too hard. she never really knew me as her granddaughter, just as her daughter who hadn't grown up, she had suffered from Alzheimer's for 12 years. We couldn't hold or hug her. i touched her hand and then the tears wouldn't stop. i would tell the kid that the pain would never go away, but somehow, they would pull through one way or another. I'm still waiting to pull through. i related to this cause i just happened to be reading this and broke down to tears, tears can bring the sad outta people real fast.
Diary 65 and 66 response:
i feel like these diary's relate to me and my life because a lot of people in my family have drug and alcoholic problems. I didn't learn about these thing till i was about 12 or 11. I learned that my uncle who was 36 had died from a drug overdose but he had many other problems like type 2 diabetes, and failure of the liver before he died. Were he died was on my grandma's bed at her house. I feel like that was a long time ago but i still reminisce about it. I'm not following these footsteps to early death it just sadness me that people do these things, just for the good feeling you get.
Diary 64:
What i would have done differently was instead of attacking the step dad i would have called the police and the get my mom and sister into the car and leave, to help this person i would go and help get the person out of the situation.
Diary 66
I picked this diary because I can relate to what happened in the diary because it reminds me of my Grandfather when he died and we could not do anything for him. I do not know if we really could have done anything for him because he was dying and we did not know what to do. It makes feel sad and I know that there is also other people that go through the same thing that I did.
Diary 66 I have never been through any kind of pain like the Freedom Writers have go through but I can understand how bad it feels to lose a loved one or to get hurt by someone you know or love. If someone you loved was lost by a brain tumor that paralyzed him then you have to move on, but never forget that person because it would be felony if you forgot that person. This diary really makes me think about how that person who lost a brother feels and how she has to live with that everyday. It is unbelievable that kids my age are going through the same situation even now because of how they have to deal with the pain of how things happen in their lives such as losing a loved one or being abused by a relative. These kids make me wonder if they are the kids of the future because they are the ones who know what the hard times are.
The dairy that affect me the most was dairy 64, because my uncles when they get drunk they sometimes heart there family. They do it by calling us and there wife or kids names and when they are mad they even get into physical abuse. The abuse is so intense that sometimes they have to go to the hospital. And in this dairy it shows a alcoholic person betting up the people he supposedly loves so I personally can relate to this person
i choose diary 3 because i can relate to this person. F*@# has been the first word that comes to mind when ive walked into classrooms. another year, another teacher, another group of random a$$ kids. F is what came to mind.
-816
Diary 66:
Diary 66 effects me the most because it relates to my friends. My friends' younger brother had cancer. He had to spend months in a hospital 2 hours away. My friends' would have to drive up to the hospital just to see him. The doctors did all they could, it just wasn't enough. He died on Christmas. I don't know very many details because I wasn't friends with them at the time and we don't talk about it now. We only talk about their younger brother in a positive way, remembering him and things they did together. I wish I could help them, but I don't know how. This diary and their story makes me feel terrible. No one should go through that. Now, the holidays aren't joyful for them and I feel so bad that while everyone is happy spending time with their family, they will never get to spend time with him again.
i went through a similar thing to what happened in Diary 66. One night my dad had a heart attack. We rushed him to the hospital. He was there for a few days, i remember going everyday, watching the slow process of healing. On the last day he was supposed to get out, during a final test, he had another heart attack. Years later he would not only have another heart attack, but would accidently OD on heart medication. Both were very scary because i look up to my dad, and wouldn't want to lose him.The only thing that differs me from the diary is that my dad didn't die.
I can relate to diary 66 because I had a family that came really close to death. It was my uncle and he got in a car accident. Some guy ran straight into him and put him in a coma. He couldn't move or even talk because he was in such bad shape for months. If I was in this situation then I would probably want revenge because the guy was careless about others and wasn't paying attention to anything he did. This made me feel angry because the guy probably ran a red or something and hit him. It also makes me feel really sad knowing that people go through or at least see these weekly plenty of times throughout their lives.
Diary 18. The peanut diary. Stereotypes, labels, and pre-judgments are some of the things we face today. Even I, someone who sees personality not color, sometimes can judge people by the way they look. The first time I see see people that might happen, but then I remember myself and I think about how I would feel if that person didn't get to know me before he judged me. I always try to remember the cliche saying "Don't judge a book by it's cover," but sometimes it's hard to get your mind into that state, because everyone is telling us that it is okay to put labels on people. Everyone slips up, but what makes people different from others is that we remember ourselves and that we judge on the inside, not the outside.
dairy 58:
This diary effects me the most because at an earlier age i went to the clinic to see why i dont pay attention in class...they labled me as ADD, and said that i suffer from major depression. ive always thought about suicide as a way out of my life. ive even took pills to contain those thoughts of depression.i have been through some major stuff when i was younger, well it doesnt seem moajor to waht these kids went through but ive been in very similar situations. i can relate to this diary because no matter what i seem to do i always feel depressed and i always think about suicide...the drugs to help me contain it has not been helping me at all...sometimes i wish i didnt have to take them and the doctors would listen to me when i tell them i dont need to take them. ive had to take pills for ADD but i dont anymore they dont think that helps me. they only think im in denial. they dont believe that my best friends dezzz and sedonte are the only ones that help me get through my rough times. i put on this facade to make it seem like im the happiest kid in the world... but deep down inside all i feel is pain. the doctors have sent me to multiple psychiatrists since i was five. because of my add, they also think i need anger managment, and because of my major depression. i have a lot of anger built up inside from my past, and i trust no one. this makes me feel like there is actaully someone out there that actaully feels the same way i do about alot of things. this makes me feel like im not alone anymore...and i dont have to hide from certain people who i trully. maybe one day i wont feel like i have to hide...maybe one day ill feel i actaully belong and i dont have to be said all the time...maybe one day there will be a change...maybe...one day...i dont know how i would help someone that has similar issues to what i go through. i would try to just let them know that i am here no matter what...they are not alone in this world...and i would hope for them to help me in this world also...
I cannot relate to any of these entries, but i liked diary 11
its about a dyslexic guy who was teased and called stupid, but was inspired by ms g when she said that most dyslexic people do good in sports to distract people from their reading disabilities such as dyslexia. He liked baseball and even found out that his hero Nolan Ryan was dyslexic like himself. It made me feel good, even though I'm not dyslexic. if i was in his situation i would stick to baseball and persevere so i would be come known for my skills and not my disabilities. I would help this person by teaching him how to look at everything the right way. i feel like it is wrong to tease people for being dyslexic, because its not their fault, they're just born like that.
Diary 66-
"Kevin was placed in a Children's Hospital to undergo a brain biopsy for a misdiagnosed tumor."
For about a month, my dad was in the hospital, waiting for the MRI results for the "benign" tumor. Then they operated. He was already up the next day. After staying at home for some time, the doctors found more tumors where the original had been "taken care of." So, after radiation and chemotherapy, he comes home again.
"Kevin was bed-ridden, having seizures and hallucinations."
I just walked up the stairs, and heard my mom talking on the phone, in the background, a rough coughing/beating noise. She was calling 911. A number of weeks later, I'm woken by my mom crying, and heard the news. The hospice home was peaceful, anyway...
I never really ever heard anyone else's story like mine, so the diary hit me harder than the real thing.
Usually the thing that helps the most is to just not talk about it.
I know I'm not the only one, but hearing other stories like this helps to revive those dead feelings inside. (The 'will to talk' one died a while ago)
Dairy 63: I believe that the author was looking for love and ended up with the wrong person. To know that she put up the shit that her boyfriend was making her go through, shows that would do anything for love. I know that deep in my heart that i truly loved my ex- but the way I was trying to show her that I loved her wasn't the way to do it. When I think about the many times I called her names I ask myself why did she stay with an asshole like me for so long.
since my last post was inadiquiet
i will put them in this post i chose diary 64 because that was the diary with the alcholhic stepdad beating his wife. Somthing like that happened to me last week my brother was hiding because my dad was in a bad mood and when he found him he started to hit him and beat him i went over to help him and i shoved him down the stairs. This diary stood out to me because that was the fist thing that came to mind when i finished reading it. It brought back the feeling of power as i watched him tumble down the stairs after i helped my brother out. In the girl who was writing the journal to help her all i could say to help her was keep your chin up and walk away if you have to. Knowing that kids my own age are going through this brings back the reality and horrors of our world and how imperfect it is.
Diary 64
I can relate this diary entry to my mom a little bit because my dad has done things to to my mom like hit her and told her that he was going to kill her. It stood out to me because I hate that guys think they can do things to girls because we are weak. It made me feel scared, sad, and hopeless because I couldn't do anything to stop him like one time my dad was drunk and he sprained my moms wrist in front of me, so i to my grandma frightened and i couldn't stop shaking. I think the person in the book should have called the police or moved as far away as possible. I hate that this is happening all over the world. I wish that I could stop it but I can't.
The diary that stood out to me the most was Diary 57. That thing that stood out to me was he/she would really give himself/herself a bad grade because of something that was out of his hand. It made me feel grateful that I ever had to go through any of the things that the Freedom Writers went through but also shocked that kids our age had to go through something horrible like this. I really admired them that even though they had these problems at home, they would be the ones to make the racial tensions disappear. Since, this student was home almost all the time and thinks that Ms.G should fail her because of the first reason, I would bring the H.W. and all the notes to him/her so that he/she wouldn't be left behind and maybe she would reconsider that earlier grade.
Diary 63
Something that stood out to me in this diary was that she really needed somebody to love her because she stayed with him. It made me feel very sad but very mad too.
I can relate to this diary because when I had a boyfriend, he wouldn't hit me or anything like that, but he would yell at me and call me names. It wasn't that serious like what happened to this girl in the book, but I didn't like it. Then he would say he was sorry and that he loved me and I believed him. Then it happened again, and again and my friends would tell me that I was so stupid but I didn't care because I really loved him. But what happened in the book was way out of control, if a boy hits me, I don't care how much I love him I would walk away.
I would help this person by showing her, his boyfriend is not the only boy in this world and I would show her what REAL love is.
This book makes me very sad because I can't believe people of my age are going through these stuff. We always worry about things that are not that important like to have a new cellphone and things like that but they have to worry about how are they going to survive.
i relate to the last diary we read. diary 66: because i had a similar situation to that one. when i was little me and my cousin went to work with my dad and he works in construction. so me and my cousin were playing around in a house that wasn't finished the windows were laying on the floor and the handle bars were loose. my cousin told me not to play with the handle bars because they were not safe. the handle bars began to crack and we got so scared but i was still lining on them so my cousin pushed me away but he fell down the second story of the house. i was so scared i raned to my dad and told him what had happen. we rushed to my cousin he was laying there with a big cut on his back and was bleeeding. my dad caried him to the car and rushed to the neerest hospital. when we got there my dad called my aunts and uncles and we waited there for them. when they got there they were crying and the doctor was still with my cousin. after a couple of hours the doctor comes out and tells us that there were bad news. he told us he was paralyzed from the neck down. that whole week was a nightmare. after a some weeks i went to visit him because he wasn't in the emergency room anymore and i could go in now. when i got in i was crying and after a couple of hours he just closed his eyes and a beeping sound some out. i didn't know what was going on. my dad cried and took me out of the room. and told me that he had passed away.
my best suggestion to someone that has a friend or a family member that is paralyzed or has a problem.
is that everything happens for a reason. and i guess sometimes life does take people you really love away. just hang hard and go on with your life, you can do nothing anymore just continue with your life.
I choose diary 66 because of my grandma. she was in the hospital on christmas because she had almost died because she was eat something and at the time i wasn't there. I was at my aunts house. She was eating something and then she was chocking and she fell and could breath and so me uncle witch was in tj went as fast as they could to get to the doctor. At the time i was in the US so me and the rest of my family went to go to the doctor. As so as we got there half of my family was there and we were all waiting all until something happened. I felt so helpless could i really couldn't do anything. the next day the doctor told us that she was still alive. At that point I was so happy that she was ok. I dont think anyone should go through this but i guess you have to.But some people dont make it. So i guess i was lucky
i can relate to diary 66 because last year a good friend of mine named Ramon(but everyone called him junior) died of lung cancer. it started with a regular checkup when they discovered that he was walking around with tumors in his lungs.i still visited him like almost every day and we would play video games and talk but i had set my mind that he wouldn't die. i tried to be the tough guy when i found out that he passed away but when it sunk in i cried and cried knowing that many things weren't in my hands. and it sucks that kids go through this still because i know that it feels hopeless.
Diary 63.
I feel good knowing that someone went through the same thing as I did. I don't feel like I' alone anymore. I always felt that I needed love, I still do. I thought the only thing I needed was him and that we completed each other. I can't help at wonder what if I stayed with him.
Some times being with someone is not the best thing, being alone can sometimes be better than having the wrong company.
Diary 64
I would have done differently by instead of attacking the stepdad i would have called the my neighbor or call 911 and the get my mother into the car and leave
I agree with kyle on Diary 66. I can relate to him because in some part of my family, drugs and alcohol were a big part of their eveyday life. I personally took this unattractive experience and made it into a valuable learning experience. I know for sure that I will never follow or even try o follow these footsteps in my life. This made me wake up and see what's really going on.
What vicktorieya.94 was really touching and meaningful. She wrote about Diary Entry 66 and was talking about how her grandmother had passed away and how she couldn't feel the emotion inside of her. But when she had read Entry 66 it kind of triggered the emotion that had been bottled up since. We all need to let our emotions be shown so people can .help us overcome what ever we are going through
I pick Lukas Malucas because he is relating the situations just like Diary 64, i think it was very brave of him o post this in the blog.
i think that Luke made a good connection to the book with his own experience. I have never had anything like that happen to me
I PICKED LUKAS MALACAS COMMENT
BECAUSE I THINK THAT IN A WAY HE HAS EXPERIENCED BEFORE WHAT IT IS LIKE OR TO HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMMON WITH CELIE...
LIKE THE FREEDOM WRITERS DO.
I agree with atehsarah, diary 57 really stood out to me too. I usually underestimate and don't think very highly of myself. But the way Ms. G answered back with.. well you know.. It was funny! XD Now she's starting to act ganster to get through to these guys that didn't really care.
i can relate to whomever can relate to diary 66 because so many people who loved have passed so many people have passed in my life and i didn't know what to do
i think what happened is really bad what happened to super mario mother. that accidentally killed her mother that s why doctors are payed for to do save the life other people lives sorry about what happened to your mother
lukas malakas
I think its very sad what happened to ur brother and no one should have to go through that, but on the other hand you do definitely have a point and those two instances are very similar.
dear "...." i understand what happened to your friend. my grandma died of cancer also. but she lived in new york so i didnt really talk to her alot but i still couldnt take the pain so well. she died a week before christmas and my mom told me christmas day. i cried and cried for about two days and kept to myself for a few weeks after that. then i became very alone. anyway i act happy all the time that its annoying.
$up3r m@r!0 diary 66:
I think that what happened to your mom is really sad. I'm sorry this happened to her and I can't believe t has happened to other people too. Some doctors nowadays hurt their patients instead of helping us. I sort of relate to this too because when I was born, the doctor broke my shoulder. Also, my cousin had a cancerous tumor that was not detected and the doctor instead of running a test to see if it was cancerous, he operated her and spread the cancer. she was my favorite cousin and she died, she was only 15. I now it's not as bad as what happened to you or your mom, but it does bother me to know that doctors have not only done this to you and me, but to others.
i am replying to kyle diary 65 and bescause i can relate to this because my uncle died from achahol posin and at times I wonder if I could have hepled him he was only 46 and how it happened because my aunt left him and he couldnt get over and one day he wasnt calling anybody and he wasnt going to work so we went to his house and we found him dead on his bed and now I will wonder if I could have helped him.
j_rod: Diary 18
I totally agree with you! I really try not to judge a book by it's cover but sometimes I do because it's easy. I still get to know the person in the end, but I wish I didn't have to remind myself not to judge the person right off the bat.
rachel.
i chose yours because
i think it is really sad what happened to you, i have also gone through that. Its really hard to love/care about someone so much, then just like have them taken away from you forever, and like it hurts to think that you will never be able to see them again. Ever since something like that happened to me i try to live my life like tomorrow is the end. I make sure things go well,even when i know they arnt. All I can say is just try to make the best out of things, because when your pissed off at someone and something bad happens to that important person, you have to live with the guilt.
i pick sup3r m@r!o because i think it is really sad to lose your mother when you are little kid and more that docters "ACCIDENTALY" killed his mom, (that got my eyes watery) i cannot imagine how i would react if i lost my mother in somethin like that i would probably be mad with doctors for the rest of my life.
$up3r m@r!0 diary 66:i know how it feels to lose someone. the feeling suck and people dont like to feel it but sooner or later we all have to go thourgh it.
Rachel Diary 66:
I can relate to this diary because
about a month and a half ago my great grandfather was dying and now is dead. I remeber just standing there by he's bed crying. i was afraid to hug him. I couldnt take the pain. My family was there and my grandfathers daughters and son (my grandpa). Right after i left his room we had to leave, because of the other brothers were coming and they HATED my grandpa. All they want was money and didnt even care that there own father was dying. i was so MAD how could a family still be fighting when someone they love is dying and not even care! I guess there are just something that can never be explained...
it just hurts inside.
atehsarah Diary 57:
I also had similar feelings to this diary entry. I too was surprised that Ms. Gruwell was going to blow up like that. I would not have made it in the Freedom Writers class. Although, I once had a similar situation. I once was feeling bad at home so I acted out and gave people a hard time. I was asked why,l then yelled at for giving the reason "'cause I feel bad." I felt really guilty for a few days. In retrospect, I feel as though I shouldn't really care. People who yell at other people to convince them to do something doesn't look all that great, I would not respect them. If self reliance involves people yelling at you to do something, I wouldn't call that SELF-reliance at all. It would just seem like aggressive pressure.
But that's just me.
i think that gorge had a good relation with the diary 66 because two years ago my great grandma had gotten really ill a as time went by she got really ill. She passed away but i gess it was her time to go.
I agree with diary 3 because its true because all kids lern a bad word.
I agree with diary 3 because its true because all kids lern a bad word.
i agree with andy she choose diary 63 i had this friend in middle school and she is with this guy juan one day she came to school saying that her legs ached because her boy friend hit her she said tey where playing but i still told her that what he was doing was wrong but she said she was so in love with him and thhat she couldnt leave him she said that if she dumped him it would be for something really serious... as if that wasnt serious.
for me i choose diary 66 because it is hard to lose someone you love.i have had my great grandma die in the hospital right when went downstairs to the food court and i have had my best friend kill her self cause of family issuses.
diary 66,
a long time ago when i was 8 years old my grandpa died I really don;t remember of what but it was really sad all the time. once i hear a sentimental song about the death of someone close together i start to cry that i can't see him anymore
diary 65
i can relate to that one the most to it because my dad use to have a really great job he use to have but his dad was dieing and he just started acting different and he started yelling at my mom and my grandmother who lived with us and when I was 10 or nine i found out that he was a crack head and he would never say that he was but i knew and my mom knew mostly everyone in my family knew and we always tired to make him get help but he never listen and when he met one guy who use to do more drugs my dad did it with him and he lost his job and my mom would always say that he was going to leave but he didnt and my mom would have to work twice as hard and ask my other family members for money for rent I hated knowing my dad was like that but one day after all the fightings he left and I gusse got help and hes back but I dont really know if he changed.
tears stream down my face
burning to the touch
i fell every drop
because with every fallen tear
the feeling of unimportance creeps in on me
i wonder how people see me now
if they see that i am too emotional
if they see a little dramatic girl
acting as if she just faced death herself
or if they see a person who needs companionship
i don't like the feeling i am having
the one that makes feel smaller than i really am
i want to end my crying
to stop choking on my tears
i keep wondering if this pain will ever stop
only a little truth is inside of me
it wont
i have to deal with whatever life throws at me, they say
i been through this already, another one screamed
but you weren't young
you weren't me
you were close to your person
the person recognize your voice
mine didn't
the pain still screams at me to let it out
but every time i try to
it is forced back to me
i can't stop fearing death
but i can face it
and i hope when i do
i am stronger than it is
my person didn't make it through
and i probably wont either
but i have a damn good chance to
and i will use it all
though I'm scared
its a law to be
i hope for the best though to make it out alive
and if i don't
hopefully someone understands
i really hope they do
-vicjoraco
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