Reaction Paper on Finding Forrester

Besides the author’s writing style, the plot of this book was very interesting and sad. Jamal’s older brother was in jail due to murder and his mother is a single parent that has to work nearly 24 hours a day to support Jamal and his

First, their friendship is strange since they both have very different backgrounds. William Forrester is an award-winning, acclaimed author from Scotland, and Jamal Wallace is a sixteen year old boy who comes from a broken family. Jamal used to go to a normal high school, but was then moved to an elite Manhattan prep school. Jamal met William by breaking into his apartment which is crazy that somehow William didn’t call the police or tried to contact someone about his apartment being broken into. William finds Jamal’s backpack that he left behind and sees Jamal’s writing and starts to read and correct it. When Jamal gets his backpack back he sees that his writing was corrected and then he confronts William for advice and

In the movie, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks plays an intellectually handicapped man named Forrest Gump from Greenbow, Alabama. The majority of the movie took place through his recounting of his memories from early childhood all the way up to his current age. This paper looks at Forrest’s ability to communicate, his diligence in a relationship, ability to cope, and his self-perception.

10. I think that both Jamal and Forrester are teachers to each other in the film. Jamal learns that he is a very smart guy and with some guidance from Forrester he can be a very intelligent writer. Forrester learns from Jamal that the past may have been upsetting and feeling full of blame, but you cannot let it affect today and he admires Forrester and respects him, and no one comes from a past that had no sadness. From being around each other they received a sense of respect and admiration at an intellectual level.

In “Finding Forrester,” there are so many people that kept pulling Jamal Wallace down because of his skin color and because he was not rich like the kids at his school. The life of Jamal Wallace was filled with many conflicts in the movie “Finding Forrester” because he struggled with people constantly pulling him down in his daily life. Jamal was always nervous in the movie so whenever he was sitting, standing, in the house, or walking down the street he always had a basketball with him bouncing it.

-This doesn't mean that people are stealing others' work, it means that each and every piece of literature directly affects the way a writer views and processes things.

In “Finding Forrester”, there were two main characters named Jamal Wallace and William Forrester. Jamal was an inner city teenager from Bronx, New York who had the gifted talents of being a basketball player and a good writer. While always a C student, Jamal received attention from a New York college prep school for his high standardized test scores. Even though Jamal wanted to partake this request, he was afraid of his 4 friends opinions. Unlike Jamal, his friends did not care about academics and thought of Jamal as being a nerd.

My movie is Mean Girls. I have probably watched this movie more times than I would like to admit. This is a great movies because any high school girl can relate to it. Mean Girls is about a teenaged girl names Cady that movies from Africa after being homeschooled for all theses years, and she goes to a public school and eventually ends up part of “the plastics” and completely changes from who she was. (Waters 2004) This movie really hits close to home being a teenage girl at one point. Mean girls has a lot to do with adolescence development such as: peer pressure, self-esteem, moral identity and observational learning.

Before watching the film a viewer schooled in academia must consider how the original text may be altered to comply with Hollywood tradition. Miller goes on to

This film dealt with people who are African-Americans and Italian Americans that explore what could happen when racial tensions explode on a hot summer day (McGowan). Before the real film could even start, the credits were the first thing that came on with Rosie Perez dancing to a great and powerful song that is call Fight the Power. Fight the Power is a motivating song that provides that extra push that the African-American people sometimes require just to take action. This song also was the theme song that played throughout the movie and that told the audience that an uproar was going to take place. Just by viewing the first few scenes of the movie, there was an actor named Giancarlo Esposito, who played the role of Buggin’ Out, he literally went bonkers on Sal (the owner of the pizza place) portrayed by Danny Aiello. He wanted African-American people on Sal’s wall of fame and when Sal did not agree to adding them up there, he started to ask around the town to help him boycott Sal’s pizza

When people have friendships it shows who they are because of what could be done for others: therefore, taking time out of the day to care for the person or people. Before Jamal got to know “The Window” he thought bad about him. Eventually he found out his name is actually William Forrester. William took the time out of his day to read Jamal's writing. William took the time to get to know Jamal as a person and not just as someone that broke into his apartment. They started to build a friendship and a personal relationship with each other. “The idea of an aging, cranky, character becoming the mentor and friend of a young boy”

The movie was released in 2016, this movie shocked its audience because it made the audience very aware that there was a problem in our communities with gang violence. The main actors in this movie are Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson, Nicki Minaj and Common who is a Chicago rapper. And was directed by Malcolm D. Lee to the sequel in 2004. This

Why is caring so important? In the movie Finding Forrester, the story begins with Jamal and his friends as they wonder why a figure they refer to as “The Window,” watches them when they play basketball. Jamal’s friends dare him to sneak into The Window’s apartment. He has to prove to his friends that he followed through on the dare by taking something from the apartment. The following day, Jamal realizes that he does not have his backpack. Later on, Jamal’s bag is thrown from the window of the apartment he broke into. He finds his books had been written all over, as if The Window had edited his work. Soon, he builds a relationship with The Window. As he starts attending a new school, Jamal realizes that he needs help with his writings. There

Sant (2000), Finding Forrester was the film selected for this discussion, truth be told it selected me. At the conclusion of the film, with tears streaming down my face, it was a choice with no regrets. The storyline for the film centers around two main characters, Forrester and Lamar. Forrester played by Sean Connery, is an eccentric, reclusive, Pulitzer prize winning novelist, living in a high-rise building in New York city. Forrester has not left his apartment in over a decade. His life centers around, looking out a living room window, which he meticulously cleans, that overlooks a basketball court, with binoculars. This window provides him with his sole connection to the outside world, beside the one human contact with a man that does his errands and delivers his essentials to him.

How can a book and a movie differ if they are telling the same story? Through the analysis of the literary components in the modern selection, the reader concludes the author and producer had much to compare. After evaluating three contemporary selections from Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Katherine Anne Porter, the reader can detect several literary components in the text and the movie to compare and contrast between.