Discovering Jamal Jessica Micallef Finding Forrester was directed by Gus Van Sant and released in 2000. The film was interesting. It showed you that anything is possible; you just need to put in hard work and effort. Gus Van Sant shows us that it does not matter where you are from‚ anything is possible. Jamal Wallace is an African-American boy from the Bronx who is secretly highly intelligent but he does not want anybody knowing because it will ruin his reputation at school‚ an example of this
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Finding Forrester Finding Forrester is the story of Jamal Wallace’s‚ played by Rob Brown in his first motion picture‚ life in the rough world of the inner city. Early on we find that Jamal is very intellectually gifted from his scores on the standardize test‚ but he doesn’t try to succeed in school so that he won’t be secluded from his friends. On a dare‚ he sneaks into a mysterious apartment‚ but leaves his backpack behind when is surprised by the old man. When the old man tosses the backpack out
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Finding Forrester The movie "Finding Forrester" was a good‚ quality movie with a great theme and moral. In this movie Jamal‚ an African American basketball player and student‚ meets a famous old writer named William Forrester through a dare. Little do they know when they first meet what a great difference they would each eventually make for each other. William is the first to help Jamal by helping him in his writing. Jamal is a great writer but just doesn’t know it yet. William helps Jamal
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way they look‚ by their skin color‚ their hair type‚ or even the type of clothing they have on? Finding Forrester is a film that in my opinion perpetuates stereotypes. The entire film is based on significantly different racial opinions‚ opinions of different writing styles and stereotyping of different people in general. Race is a huge issue in the film and many stereotypes are made. Jamal Wallace is introduced in the film as a typical black teenage male who goes to a low class school in the Bronx
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What’s point of finding Forrester? The movie is about Pulitzer Prize Winner author William Forrester and a black teenage boy‚ Jamal Wallace from Bronx. Shows human kind‚ friendship does not have an age barrier. Talent needs to be recognized without stereotyping‚ prejudice and discrimination‚ people should not be judged from their color and where their come from. It teaches teenagers to channel their frustration in positive manner. Every citizen has the right for equal opportunity
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Finding Forrester The movie Finding Forrester is based in the Bronx. Jamal Wallace meets William Forrester and at first is unaware that he is a famous author. William helps Jamal with his passion for writing which he covers up with basketball to get accepted. He gets the opportunity to go to a different school for basketball until he figures out that he would rather be there for academics. William and Jamal have an agreement that William will help with writing and Jamal will
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English 101 15 April 2014 Finding Forrester and Outliers My views on the book were that it was inspiring and show the realistic views on life. The Outliers is set of stories that shows the errors in human nature‚ however‚ it also shows the paths of those who overcame the obstacles on the way to success. Outliers is a book that reveals how the most powerful people‚ those that have become idols when talking about success‚ had the greatest luck and opportunities already around them. When Bill
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2014 Finding Forester The movie Finding Forester takes place in the Bronx this setting is importing in the movie and shows what kind of lifestyle Jamal has‚ and what he is expected to live up to. It shows that by living in such an area of poor black people not much is going to be going on for him and not much can be done in the area except play basketball with his friends in the court and not much besides that. There are other settings in the movie like Forester’s apartment as Jamal spends
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Finding Forrester The film‚ "finding Forrester"‚ was a good quality film‚ with a great theme and moral lesson. The film has two main characters‚ Jamal Wallace and William Forrester. Jamal Wallace is a talented 16-years old African American basketball player in Bronx‚ New York‚ whose secret passion is writing and reading. William Forrester is a reclusive Pulitzer Prize winning novelist who never gave the world a second novel. He suffers from agoraphobia which prevents him from dealing with
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“Finding Forrester” is a touching drama surrounding our protagonist‚ Jamal Wallace‚ an African American youngster who grew up in a lesser desirable social circumstance. With the combined factor of his gift in the basketball courts‚ and his excellent standardized test scores‚ Jamal Wallace finds himself invited to a prestigious prep school in New York. During the same time frame‚ Jamal Wallace befriends an enigmatic old man‚ unknown to Jamal at the time‚ the old man is in fact William Forrester‚ a
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