After a few days of class in the new course, Gruwell and his students enter into a debate about racism in which he compares the cartoon of a black student with big lips, drawn by another student, with the Nazi cartoons of Jews with big noses. So he decides to take the class on a visit to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, to show them the consequences of the Holocaust.

In one part of the film, the teacher sends the students daily, so that they take them as an example and write about past experiences, present or future thoughts, about good times, or bad. When she reads what the students have written, she is amazed by the quality and substance of the writing. Students have become writers for freedom. That is why, he decides to publish a book with the compilation of articles, The Freedom Writers Diary, which was published in 1999.

People associate adolescence with a period of rebellion and bad behavior. However, this is the period of life when the brain of adolescents is particularly adaptable and variable. It is a fantastic opportunity for learning in creativity. 

In the film, we can see how the English teacher empathizes with her students when she understands their problems. In one scene we can see how the teacher makes them talk about their dead friends and others adolescents' problems. Then, she offers them to write in a personal diary everything they want with total freedom. She will read it only if they want. Adolescents have difficulties interacting emotionally with others. By respecting their privacy, she earned their trust and affection. The teacher used several teaching methods, so they learned using things that concern them. As a result of her effort, they will become great writers.

(Drs Hazen, Schlozman, and Beresin in Adolescent Psychological
Development: A Review)
As we see in the movie this piece of information from the article is essential to understanf the importance of freindships during the different development periods for teens. We can analyse in the film the different stages of the adolescents having and chaging friends. Some of these groups are very violent and when they are together the situation gets worse. But on th other hand some of them turn into excellent support systems and help eachother to get through hard times. Of course as they get older every teen gets morally stronger and doesn't 'go with the flow'm so easily. They values get selective and become relevant in their personal life.