Question

What does the author tell the court at the end of the diary entry

in diary 33 from the Freedom Writers Diary

Answer 1

The author tells the truth. She goes into the courtroom believing that she will lie to protect her own, but after seeing a mother on the defendant's side cry and hug her child, she tells the truth. The mother reminds her of her own mother, and the author, when she was younger and her dad was also wrongly put in jail.

Answer: She tells the truth in the end, feeling sympathy for the innocent side.

Answer 2

Answer: she tells the truth.

The author explains that she had to participate as a witness in a trail against her friend Paco, who killed a man to save her life.

Everyone expected her to protect Paco since he was part of her group, he was "blood." However, when she sees the mother of the boy accused of Paco's crime, she remembers her father, who was wrongly send to jail.

At the though repeating his father's situation, the author changes her mind and decides to tell the truth.