FREE ESSAY ON MOVIE I LIKE

MOVIE I LIKE

I felt that this movie was a very good learning tool. It demonstrated how stupid
discrimination looked when the little third graders hated each other for the color of
their eyes. It was amazing also to see the way that the children talked about blacks and
Native Americans. They were only in third grade and they were using racial slurs to
address these people. This shows how are society has changed over the last couple
decades. Children now realize that it is wrong to talk about someone in that fashion. It
was interesting to see how the third graders reacted when they had a class reunion and
watched the film. They all still remembered the lesson that they had learned in the
classroom. This shows how a teacher can make sure that a lesson or idea stays in your
head. The teacher realized that if she wanted these children to remember what it was like
to be discriminated against she had to take drastic measure. We may not let this type of
activity go on in the classroom today. People are very sensitive today and if their child
came home and said that he or she was made to feel like an outsider most likely the
parent would call the school and the teacher would get in trouble.
The seminar that the teacher gave to the adults was especially interesting. It was very
interesting to see how these adults reacted to being discriminated against. Many of them
just sat there and took it but a few such as the old woman stood up and tried to talk
back to the instructor. This was a futile point because the instructor would use the mere
argument against the person to make them feel like less then a human being. These adults
knew they were there to learn something but they still got tangled up in the scenario and
even went so far as to attack the teacher verbally. This video shows you how
discrimination can destroy a group of people. The eye color just shows how stupid it is
to hate someone for the color of his or her body. I think that everyone involved in this
exercise came away from it knowing and understanding discrimination a lot better.