Louder Than A Bomb Analysis

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Louder than a Bomb is a documentary by Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs. We are invited into the lives of four different Chicago teenagers as they prepare for the city wide poetry slam. These four students come from various backgrounds and schools. The first student we meet is Nate Marshal from Whitney Young Magnet High School on the west side of Chicago. The school uses standardized test scores and grades to determine who gets in. The kids that go there are smart, and eager to learn, which is a stark contrast to most of the other schools we see. A good school however does not prevent Nate from seeing the bad side to Chicago. He takes the camera crew to an area around his neighborhood where he points to places he’s gotten jumped, or seen a dead body. Then we meet the group The Steinmenauts from Steinmetz High School. The school looks rundown, the student population is mostly African Americans who have really seen the rougher side of life, and that is reflected in the school. The teachers seem to struggle to teach the kids. We then meet Nova who goes to Oak Park High. Oak Park is in the suburbs of Chicago. The students seem to mostly be Hispanic and White. The school itself is pretty up to date, and is the third best school we see in the documentary. …show more content…

The school is huge and being a college prep school it is also selective in the students who get enrolled. The focus is on teaching and learning. The school seems predominately white with a few students of color. Even though these schools are all different, they have some similarities such as the teachers. All of the teachers that we meet are encouraging the students anyway they can, in addition they are always striving to get the kids to believe in themselves and pushing them towards

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