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Chris Gardner Characteristics
One of Chris Gardner's Personality traits is him being a good father. When Chris was 28 he finally met his father. Chris had always promised that he would be there for his own kid unlike his dad was there for him. Whenever Linda left Chris, Chris seen Linda in an ally on her way to work and he stopped her and told her that he wanted Christopher to come live with him because he knew and she knew that Linda wouldn’t be able to take care of Christopher by herself. Chris gets kicked out of his house with his 5 year old son, and he tries to find a place to stay, but the only place he could find was the bathroom at the bus station. Also Chris makes sure that his son eats before he eats, he buys his son breakfast and a candy bar.
Chris Gardner has made good decisions for his family throughout the movie. The first thing that he did was went out to look for a better job. When he found what he wanted to do he put his
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In the beginning of the movie when Chris and Linda were still living together he forgot to pay the taxes. When Chris and Christopher came home one night they had shown up to there stuff all packed up and sitting outside on the porch area. Christopher was crying saying he wasn’t leaving and Chris started yelling at him. Also when Chris went to a meeting for a job with left his bone density scanner with a hippie girl telling her to watch it for him, but instead of her watching it she picked it up and stole it. Another bad decision that Chris made was not paying his parking tickets, Chris had to stay at the cop shop until he had enough money to pay the tickets off. One last thing that Chris did was not paying the taxi driver when he jumped into the cab trying to impress Jay Twistle with the rubik's cube so that way he would get him a job. In the of the movie Chris Gardner became successful because he impressed Jay Twistle which called him to come in and have a meeting with

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