...thing that could happen to anyone. Finding Forrester is a movie that was released on December 19, 2000. It is a movie about a young, black teenage boy, named Jamal Wallace. Jamal has the tendency to act unintelligent around his basketball buddies so that they will continue to accept him, even though he has outstanding test scores and is an amazing writer. While on the basketball court, the boys talk about the older man that stands in the window watching them, so they gave him the name “The Window” . Rumor has it that “The Window” has killed someone before. One night, Jamal’s friends dare him to sneak into the “The Window’s” house and steal something out of it, proving that he has actually completed the dare. As Jamal was in the apartment,...
Words: 1038 - Pages: 5
...Finding Forrester Assignment 1. Jamal refused to recite the poem and say he has not read it because; he did not want his friends to make fun of him. 2. Jamal turned to reading and writing after his father abandoned his family because, he knew that learning things to make him smarter will help him become a better person when older, so he would not do something like this which his father did. 3. When Jamal finds his backpack in the street he discovers comment in red ink in his journals. Forrester had read his journals and made editorial notes in them. 4. When Forrester says “constipated thinking” about Jamal’s writings he is criticizing his work, saying it is not clear. 5. Jamal takes up the challenge to write 5,000 words on why he should stay away because; he wanted to prove to Forrester he is worthy to come in. 6. Some assumptions that adults make of Jamal are they think that he is not smart enough to write as well as he does, that a 16 year old black basketball player from the Bronx couldn’t possibly write like he did, they said it was too good. 7. These assumptions were very stereotypical. That since Jamal was a colored boy from a lower class place who was good at sports that he couldn’t possibly be good at something like writing. Myself I have been subject to assumptions about who I am. I have high functioning autism and other kids think I am strange and weird, but they do not know that I suffer from social anxiety and find...
Words: 714 - Pages: 3
...willing to give freely. In the movie Finding Forrester, William Forrester learns to share his trust with a boy named Jamal when they connect through writing. Forrester is closed off and mean at first, but slowly opens up to Jamal throughout the movie. When he finally lets Jamal in, he starts to teach him how to write and talks to him about his life before Jamal. When Forrester is able to do this, they form a trust and friendship that stays strong even when they are separated. Whether that is by distance, as they go their separate ways or in death, or when Forrester leaves this earth at the end of the movie. Due to the strong sense of trust they have, when Forrester dies he is able to leave...
Words: 1204 - Pages: 5
... Dela Cruz I – 1 S 8-12 AM I. Forrester says “do you know what people are most afraid of to what they don’t understand. And when we don’t understand, we turn to our assumptions.” What are some of the assumptions that adults make about Jamal? - Some assumptions that adults make of Jamal are, they think that he is not smart enough to write as well as he does, that a 16 year old black basketball player from the Bronx couldn’t possibly write like he did, they said it was too good. A. What do these assumptions reflect about biases related to race, class, intelligence and honesty? - These assumptions were very stereotypical. That since Jamal was a colored boy from a lower class place who was good at sports that he couldn’t possibly be good at something like writing. B. Have you ever been subject to assumptions about who you are? - I haven’t been subject to assumptions about who I am. C. How does one overcome these assumptions? - I am not completely sure how to overcome these assumptions, but to keep doing what I do, like Jamal, and become a good person, no matter what some may assume. II. How do you describe the relationship between Forrester and Jamal? Are they friends and equals or a teacher and his student? What evidence from the film can you provide to support your opinion? - Both Forrester and Jamal were very interested with writing. Together they talked about different subjects within writing and reading. Forrester happened to be an author, and he knew...
Words: 392 - Pages: 2
...What makes people do what they do? What makes people say what they say; furthermore, what makes people who they are? Courage is what causes all of these things. Courage is what causes Jamal Wallace to break into the apartment of recluse and former writer William Forrester on a dare before he gets caught and the whole story begins. Forrester has not stepped foot from his apartment for years, yet Wallace does not give up and eventually breaks the mold; meanwhile, Forrester creates a writer of Wallace by teaching him how to write. Jamal Wallace is cast from his home in the Bronx and his public school into the rich and prestigious prep school because of his test scores and his ability on the basketball court, but because of his low class scores,...
Words: 897 - Pages: 4
...“Finding Forrester” is a pleasant story of friendship between an old man and a young boy. The relation develops between an eccentric novelist William Forrester and Jamal Wallace a young gifted scholar athlete. Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) was a black sixteen year old boy that lived in the Bronx of New York. Jamal was faced with the normal woes of black males brought up in an underprivileged lifestyle with very little opportunities to leave. Although Jamal had intellectual talent for writing, quite contrary to his stereotyped ghetto friends. After taking an academic test. his high results in the test lead to an offer of a life time. An opportunity to have a fully paid scholarship to one of the most prestigious schools in New York. A fully paid scholarship with an option to play basketball....
Words: 537 - Pages: 3
...FINDING FORRESTER TEACHERS’ NOTES Finding Forrester is a film about the inspirational relationship between a street-wise black teenager and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. This study guide is for pupils of GCSE and A level English and Media Studies. The areas of study include starting points for creative writing, writing a critique, what makes great writing, representation and mise en scène. SYNOPSIS He was a vibrant personality who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel four decades ago. And that is the last word heard of William Forrester (Sean Connery). That is until Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), a brash sixteen-year-old with writing aspirations of his own, cracks the veneer of Forrester’s sheltered existence and re-ignites the dreams of this literary legend in the winter of his life. Known as the neighbourhood recluse, silver-haired Forrester is a man whose mystery and eccentricity border on the mythical. When he discovers that Jamal - a talented African-American scholar-athlete who is recruited by an elite Manhattan school for his brilliance on and off the basketball court - has sneaked into his apartment and left his backpack full of writings behind, they both get something unexpected in return. Forced to look past skin colour and suppositions, Jamal encounters not only his first fan, but a mentor who will challenge and change him forever, and Forrester has his first reason in years to emerge from his self-imposed solitude. Visit www.columbiatrlstar.co.uk/forrester...
Words: 1965 - Pages: 8
