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partner, it means there is no relationship between 
them. The situation above occurred in the school 


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Some of them are just out of Juvenile Hall. 
One or two might be wearing ankle cuffs to 
monitor whereabouts. 
And you see here, we’ll have to revise your 
lesson plans. And if you look at their scores, 
these vocabularies lists and some of these, 
the books, Homer’s The Odyssey, they are 
going to be too difficult for them.
Erin: All right. 
office and discussed about work and the 
circumstances of school, so they use formal style in 
their conversation. It is included of the characteristic 
of formal style. The word and you see here instead 
of do you know. In addition, Erin still uses formal 
style in the next dialogue. 
Consultative style
The researcher found some examples relate to the consultative style used by Erin Gruwell in 
the movie of “freedom writer”. In this context the consultative style such as unfinish statement and 
short answer; it also can be no respond. The conversation as seen in table 3 below: 
Table 3. Consultative Speech Style 
Conversation 
Analysis 
Eva: I have to go to the bathroom 
Erin: Okay, make sure that you take a… 
Eva: Yeah, I know. 
The dialogue indicates the signals of consultative 
style, because there is unfinished statement which is 
uttered by Erin “Okay, make sure that you take a...”. 
This conversation occurred in school between 
teacher and students. From the dialogue above we 
can see that Eva cut Erin’s because Eva does not 
respect Erin as her teacher. Thus, it shows that there 
is no close relationship since Eva gives short 
response to reply Erin’s question. Erin also used the 
consultative style in her instruction. 
Casual style 
Casual style was the most frequent style used in this movie. There were some dialogues held 
in casual ways. In this movie, there were 2 prominent structures which often used. The first was 
ellipsis and the second was slang. Researcher began with conversation between main character and 
Marcus as seen in table 4 below. 
Table 4. Casual Speech Style 
Conversation 
Analysis 
Marcus: Do you know anything, home girl. 
Erin: No, I don’t Marcus! So why don’t you 
explain it to me.
Marcus: I aint’ explain shit to you! 
One categorized this tyle as casual style. Marcus 
says “you don’t know anything, home girl”. 
Home girl was referred to someone who doesn’t 
know anything. The function of these words 
indicates that the participant has close relationship 
but it is not appropriate to use because teacher has 
higher status than student. So, they should show 
their respect to the teacher. Moreover, teacher 
challenges Marcus to explain more about what he 
knew. But the sentence used by Marcus “I ain’t 
explaining shit to you! “Has a closest meaning 
that he will not explain anything to Erin. But he 
uses the word shit, which should be anything. 


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From these sentences, it can be seen the use of 
slang is appear in this conversation. This 
characteristic belongs to casual style. We can see 
the other example of casual style in the next 
situations. 
Intimate style
Researcher found a bit of intimate style was used by the main character. The style was only 
used by relative or close friends. the first example of intimate style uttered by Erin and her dad as seen 
in the table 5 below. 
Table 5. Intimate Speech Style 
Conversation 
Analysis 
Erin: I’ll be right back. 
Steve: Oh, no, no, no, no. Erin, get back in 
the car. 
Erin: Dad, he lives right here. 
This conversation includes an Intimate style. The 
dialogue occurred in an informal situation. The 
response which given by the participants 
“oh,no,no,no,no. Erin, get back in the car” has 
close intimacy. Thus, the calling dad in the 
utterance “Dad, he lives right here” for father is 
an indication that Erin treats Steve as a close 
person. 
After the researcher analysed the utterance spoken by main character, the writer concluded 
that the main character in this movie used all types of speech style. However, casual style was the 
most prominent style used while the frozen style used only for once where the main character was in 
the court. 
Racial conflict influences the speech style 
Context situation, participants, setting, topic and function are basic factor that influence the 
main character in Freedom Writer movie in using the speech style itself. As (Budirsa, 2015) stated 
that different language background of the speakers in various communities will create different kind 
of language variety due to the different situation and social stratification of the speakers. So, the 
setting and the social context of the interaction – where are they speaking, the topic: what is being 
talked, the function: why are they speaking, may influence the use of certain style. 
There were some reasons that the main character in Freedom Writer speak in a different 
style. Firstly, the participants, who was speaking and who they were speaking to. The participant here 
also related to the social status. It was proved in some conversation, for example when the main 
character talking to Dr. Cohn, who had the high status, she used the formal language. The participants 
such as Eva, Jamal, Marcus, and Andrew used inappropriate styles in their daily communication 
although they were talking with the teacher. They prefer to use informal style while communicating 
with the teacher, it can be proved such as when Jamal call Erin speak by using the word “bitch”. The 
calling of bitch to call a teacher shows that Jamal had no respect to Erin, it also shows about situation 
at that time where all of students and the teacher in Woodrow Wilson High School never respecting 


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each other. Furthermore, researcher believed the problem was encouraged because of the race 
problem where white people and black people were differentiated. It seemed in the beginning of the 
film where most of the students shew their unrespect action to their teacher because of their 
background status.
Secondly, the setting also influence the use of speech style in Freedom writer movie. When in 
formal situation the main character choses to speak with formal style and in informal situation the 
main character was more relaxed to talk using casual style. Using slang word can indicate them that 
they are in informal situation and indicates that the student is in low status. They also can make the 
situation will be more relaxed by using casual one. The setting of this movie, which happen in the 
school, also influences the main character speaks in formal style and also consultative style. 
The third reason is the function, why they are speaking. The function here also relates to the 
purpose or the topic, what they were talking about. If they talk high information content, then their 
speech style will be formal and when they talk low information content like a gossip, their speech will 
turn into casual. 
Discussion 
The first style that researcher analysed was frozen style which was often used between Eva 
and prosecutor. However, the main character rarely used this style and the conversation was 
established in the court. On the other hand, the formal style showed about the conversation which 
took in some places such as in school and school office. Both of those places needed high formality in 
speaking so it can be said as a formal style. Moreover, it also described the use of formal style which 
has characteristic such as the use of short responses from the participants and the use of complex 
language. The consultative style was also often used in this movie. This style sometimes combined the 
formal and informal style which took place in school between the participants who do not have close 
intimacy. The use of short responses or blank words such as well, huh, emm indicates that consultative 
style reflects to the conversation. As can be seen in some fragment that the conversation occurred 
between teacher and student or between couple that the situation does not require high formality even 
between teacher and student has different status in society. 
The next style was casual style considered the most commonly used in this movie. This style 
occurred in an informal situation between friends or family. But in this movie, this style occurred 
between teacher and student. The use of slang words is commonly used by the participants. It showed 
that the student has no respect to the teacher who has higher status than them. Some dialogues showed 
casual style. The use of slang was also found here where participants used the words such as shit
damn, hell, and etc. So, it was concluded as the characteristic of casual style. 
The intimate style is commonly used by the people who have known each other and has close 
intimacy. In this movie it is shown by the participants such as between father and daughter of couple. 
There is correlation between language and society, it means that language become the most 
important part in human life. The function of language itself is establishing social relationship. There 


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were gap relations between student and teacher because of the race. Race was a grouping of human 
base on the physical shared and social qualities and it became created identity which refers to social 
dominance then establishing meaning of a social context. Furthermore, racism was crucial issue in 
Long Beach, California, which leading the differentiations between white skin and black skin in term 
of education, public facilities, employment, government, housing and so on. In detail, white skin had 
been dominant in important aspect of life such as economics, politics, and culture. The such unfair 
condition prompted black people struggle to their right.
In the same time, racial conflict had been common issue and long story in America. Racism 
against various ethnic or minority group has existed in the united stated since the early colonial era. 
Throughout American history, white American have generally enjoyed legally or socially sanctioned 
privileges and right which had been denied to members of various ethnic or minority group at various 
time. White people enjoyed advantages in matter of education, immigration, voting right citizenship, 
land acquisition, and criminal procedure. On the other hand, black people or African Americans were 
enslaved and even afterward. They faced restriction on their political, social, economic and freedom.
In addition, “Freedom Writer” was talking about discrimination treatment between white 
student and black student. Discrimination could not be separated with the racism because it was the 
significant effect of racism. The clear form of discrimination in the movie when the teacher rejected to 
discuss black people literature while white people literature always discussed. The teacher also 
justified the black people with sex, drug, and sexual abuse. In the movie of “Freedom Writer” the 
discriminatory occurred between educational institution at school and students in class 203 which 
contain many students from Black, Latin and Cambodian. Furthermore, Erin’s speech styles also were 
influenced by the circumstances where the main character faced racial conflict. Since most of the 
students were black and the teacher was white, so the black students thought that the teacher did not 
understand the condition of black people. It also made a gap between teacher and students. However, 
the main actor of the movie faced the race conflict in the right way such as formal style because it was 
serious conflict.
In conclusion, contextual situation, participants, setting, topic and function influence a lot the 
style which are used in the movie of “Freedom Writer”. So, it can be said that the speech style cannot 
avoid those aspects. 
CONCLUSION 
The researcher presented the conclusion and suggestion based on the data and the suitable 
theory that has been analyzed in the previous chapter. According to the data that has been analyzed, it 
can be said that the main character of the “Freedom Writer” used five styles such as froze style, 
formal style, consultative style, casual style and intimate style. The most prominent in this movie was 
casual style and followed by formal style. On the other hand, the least used style was in between the 


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frozen and intimate style. However. It is considered that the most infrequent style used was frozen 
style because the main actor only comes to the court once. 
In addition, this movie also showed the discrimination which occurred among the institution 
to the black students. While the students also used inappropriate speech style and it brought big 
impact to the teacher and students. Both problems of discrimination faced by the students and the 
students used inappropriate style encouraged the main actor had to adjust herself. However, Erin 
Gruwell used appropriate approach and suitable speech style that could solve the problems. 
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