Finding Forrester
Prof. M.DeBartolo
Comp and Lit
1 February 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 most of his time there and it’s where he writes most of his writing. It’s important here because Jamal can work better in this environment than he can in other places, so he feels more comfortable here and spends most of the movie in this apartment.
The basketball could represent the sport itself having a lot of competition and struggles and through the movie basketball causes a lot of conflict with Jamal. When he is in the new school internal conflict with his team occurs and another towards the end of the movie when his school life is on the line to stay at Mailor-Callow he missed to two foul shots because they told him if he wins the game the problems with the competition submission piece would go away like it never ever happened. The books represent insulation from the real world. Forester spent his time in his house reading all of his books in his house barely paying attention to what’s going on in the world unless he's looking outside through is binoculars. The window represents the window to the outside world and it’s closed for most of the movie to show how closed up Forester is until the end of the movie where it’s kept open. Forester seems to belong to a class of people who do not wish to be involved with how the world is today but he does belong to class of highly intelligent people. He wrote a book and it got published giving him a lot of fame and he was well known for it as all his books were still taken out
Comp and Lit
1 February 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 most of his time there and it’s where he writes most of his writing. It’s important here because Jamal can work better in this environment than he can in other places, so he feels more comfortable here and spends most of the movie in this apartment.
The basketball could represent the sport itself having a lot of competition and struggles and through the movie basketball causes a lot of conflict with Jamal. When he is in the new school internal conflict with his team occurs and another towards the end of the movie when his school life is on the line to stay at Mailor-Callow he missed to two foul shots because they told him if he wins the game the problems with the competition submission piece would go away like it never ever happened. The books represent insulation from the real world. Forester spent his time in his house reading all of his books in his house barely paying attention to what’s going on in the world unless he's looking outside through is binoculars. The window represents the window to the outside world and it’s closed for most of the movie to show how closed up Forester is until the end of the movie where it’s kept open. Forester seems to belong to a class of people who do not wish to be involved with how the world is today but he does belong to class of highly intelligent people. He wrote a book and it got published giving him a lot of fame and he was well known for it as all his books were still taken out