Life Of Chris Gardner

Introduction The movie starts by depicting the life of Chris Gardner in San Francisco in 1981. Chris Gardner was a salesman who had a wife called Linda and one son called Christopher (Chris Junior). He was a salesman of portable bone-density scanners where as his wife worked as a hotel maid. Previously Chris had used up all of their life savings in order to purchase a large stock of the machines which he though of as being revolutionary to the medical x-ray machines. He therefore anticipated making huge profits that would help him in supporting his wife and young son. However, things didn’t go as he had planned because doctors and hospitals termed the machine as being “an unnecessary luxury.” It was against this background that the Gardner
Chris had two questions for him, “what do you do and how do you do?” he asked the man. The man then replied that he was a stock broker. This got Chris Gardner interested and so he asked the man if it was a requirement for one to be a college graduate in order to be a stock broker. Upon hearing that no college degree was required Chris Gardner decided that he would apply for one of the 20 internship positions that Dean Witter Reynolds offered after every six months. This scene brought to the fore the relevance of education and the education system in America. Chris Gardner was a bright and clever man as proved by his working with a doctor as his assistant to the extent of performing medical procedures on his own and also by his solving the Rubik’s cube in lees than half an hour while in the cab with Jay Twistle. Despite this he had not gone beyond high school education and his dreams of working in the medical industry were reduced to naught. This means that the American education system and job selections need to change. The educations systems should be more wholesome and not merely based on scholastic skills. Therefore life skills such as entrepreneurship and financial education should be included in the school curriculum. This will
The movie implied that Chris Gardner was flawless and that he could take anything that came his ways without breaking. This is unrealistic in the real world and therefore presents the wrong picture to viewers. The movie makes Chris a character that is incomparable with the rest of us “the normal and ordinary people.” Therefore it is difficult to emulate him to a great extent., for example, he chose not to take his son to temporarily live with his relatives while he worked on getting a stable job, instead he put Chris Junior through the most horrible experiences that a young boy can experience. Such bad experiences usually have effect later on when the boy matures into a