Teach with your heart 228-end

Like the last section of the book, this section was packed with changes in Erin's life. following the failed attempt to be nominated to political office, Erin was in some serious debt. I'm glad that Erin chose not to attempt another run at office. I just don't think it would have been a good move for her. Education is where her allegiance should lie. creating the non-profit, scholarship, freedom writers program sounds exactly like the kind of thing Erin should be doing with her life. I think she would be more successful in a role such as this than she would have been as a conventional english teacher. The other exciting thing that happened for her in this section was getting the movie about the freedom writers made. This must have seemed like a type of surreal extacy to Erin. Especially to have herself played by Hillary Swank. to have yourself represented by such an extraordinary person would have seemed jaw dropping I'm sure. Oh and meeting Hank Aaron! i don't even know if i could have made words talking to that man. He was just such an inspiration to a peoples and a nation. I think the greatest moment was in the end of the memoir though. For Sharuad to stand in front of the audience and speak to them like he did, For Erin to have changed the life of this young man from somebody who was bound to repeat the mistakes of the society he was born into to somebody who was changing the lives of others himself, well that's monumental. It really was too bad she couldn't have shared this success with her father. The passing of her father was hard to deal with even just in reading about it. I was a little surprised that she didn't talk more about the death of her father actually. I suppose maybe she thought it was best to honor him by sharing the story he would have cared about rather than by talking about her grief.