Teach With Your Heart pages 228 to 265

This section begins with Erin losing the Congressional election. She pretty depressed about the ordeal, and finds herself in a lot of debt. However, she starts giving speeches about the Freedom Writers and earns some more money by doing that. Erin begins a program to help other teachers become advocates to their students as well, and employs some of the Freedom Writers to help her do this. They identify the factors that contribute to at-risk students, and learn mentoring techniques. A studio also decides to do a documentary on the Freedom Writers, and Hollywood decides to take on the story as well. Hillary Swank calls her to tell her that she got the role of Erin in the upcoming film, and Erin felt like she was "talking to one of (her) girlfriends." (257).

This part of the book seemed a lot more surreal than the rest of the book; it was almost like it was the "Hollywood ending" to the book. However, I really liked the quote, "We're changing the world by changing education," (241).