RACIAL DISPUTE IN LAGRAVENESE’S FREEDOM WRITERS MOVIE (2007) A MARXIST APPROACH

This study is about racial dispute in Lagravenese Fredoom Writers movie (2007). This objective of the study is to apply the marxist approach to analyze the racial dispute in lagravenese’s Freedom Writers. The writer uses Erin’s major point of Marxist to answer the problem of the study. The study is descriptive qualitative research that the data are taken from script of Freedom Writers. The technique of the collecting data is library research, while the technique of analyzing data is descriptive. Having analyzed this movie, the writer draws the results of the study. First, based on the structural analysis the director successfully delivers the moral message through the excellent unity of structural element. The director wants to say that everyone in the world has the similar right. The movie reflects the discrimination, gang violence, racial tension between the black and white people. Second, based on the Marxist analysis human have different view, their views are based on dialectical materialism, historical materialism, alienation, class struggle and revolution. Erin’s struggle is meaningful when she has a good action to show her life purpose