reflection of "Akeelah and the Bee"

This week, we watched the movie " Akeelah and the Bee" during the classes.

This is a movie about a little girl Akkeelah, she always feels isolated from others. At school, she is often being laughed at. She has a great talent on spelling vocabulary. As a result, her teacher encourages her to join in the spelling bee competition. At first, she didn't want to attend. She didn't want to let others to think her as "freak". Under the principle's suggestion, she reluctantly got into the contest and became the representative of  their school on the regional spelling bee competition. At the regional, she almost failed. However, her sister caught the other competitor cheating, so she got the chance to join in the state competition. She met a boy who invited her to join in their school's spelling training at their school. It took her 2 hours to get home and her mother was really angry and forbidden her from participating in the state contest.

Akkeelah  often feels that she couldn't fit in any group in her school. She was often being bullied but she just can't do anything. So she skipped classes very often. Her family was not so rich, so her mom had to work from days to night. As a result, she doesn't really get a lot of care from her mom. Even though she won in the regional, her mom just ignored the fact that she had won. Akeelah seems to have a close relationship with her father, but he had passed away. She always talked to her father's photo in front of her desk. She shared the same interest on scrabble with her dad. Although she got the talent on spelling words, she didn't want to attend the competition in the beginning. She tried to be like everyone else, like having the same way of talking, in order to fit in the school. However, it still didn't work. Students often laugh at her and think she's a freak. Akeelah also has two brothers which are really different. Her bigger brother encouraged her to join in the contest; nevertheless, her other brother just laugh at her.