Dangerous Minds

Dangerous Minds is a very famous book, it also is a movie based on the book. Both are really good, even though in the movie they shortened the story a lot, and changed many events. For example, in the book Raul, the Mexican guy from her class, needed to pay a guy from the street for the jacket $100, and Ms. Johnson found out about from him in the class. While in the movie, he told her that he needed $200 when they were sitting in the restaurant, eating dinner. There are many changes, and short cuts like this. Those changes weren’t very good. They should have just shortened the scenario, but leave the story the way it should be.

When Louanne Johnson got hired as a teacher in Parkmont High, she was very scared because she never taught kids by herself. They assured her she could do it, but didn’t give any information about her new class. Louanne wasn’t prepared for students not caring about anything, or even worth, them throwing books at her. She ran out, but in a few minutes was back, prepared for anything.

The class she got, never tried to study. They didn’t even care whether they would graduate or not. Louanne Johnson bribed, scared, and threatened her students to do their work. She made them understand, that no one makes them come to school, and that it was their own choose.

Dangerous Minds is a really great book. It is really emotional. While reading it, I experienced excitement, happiness, sadness, joy, and satisfaction. It can easily take your mind of everything else. The only confusing thing about it is that it goes in order it happened, but the most important event goes first. I think that people should read the book, and watch the movie, it would give a better understanding of the story.