I am not sure if you are referring to Gruwell's technique
or if you are referring to the actions of the cameras to create visual effect for the
audience. Reading the way this is written, I believe it's the
former.
Gruwell takes the kids to to Holocaust museum and
the kids experience some sights they haven't seen for another group of individuals. The
majority of them being hispanic or black, they feel that they are treated poorly on a
regular basis because of their ethnic backgrounds. As they enter the museum, they are
given a card that represents the life of a person, many of them children. As they wander
throughout the museum, they learn about this person at different kiosks. They saw video
footage and evidence of internment camps. I think the most visual technique that
affected the kids was to see the eldery folks id numbers tatooed into their bodies as
they ate dinner with them. The personal experience hearing the stories of what these
white people went through dramatically neutralized these tough gang-affiliated
teens.
To see these folks still alive and recovered from
their tragedy encourages the kids to make great change. I saw that segment as one which
gave them hope and the idea that if other peoples could struggle as the Jews did during
the Holocaust, then they could struggle and come out stronger too. Prior to this
experience, they generally all thought they would die by 30 because their lives were
hopeless and full of certain death.
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