Jamal Wallace is a very ingenious young man. Living in the Bronx sometimes puts a bad image on him. He goes through tribulations with everyone thinking bad on him. When he transferred schools the new society, he was in judged him based on his color and him being from the Bronx. His friends bring him down from peer pressure. They convinced him to break into a house and that put a bad first impression from William Forresters point of view. As Jamal and William got to know each other, William realized Jamal has the potential of being an excellent writer.…
The film is depicted in New York City. Whereas Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) is a high school aged student with a love for basketball and very good marks in school. Jamal gets accepted into a very prestigious private high school due in part to his stellar basketball skills and in part to his great test and SAT scores. A major theme of the film is the talent of Jamal and how he goes about hiding his knowledge and education level to his peers in order to stay away from…
As for diversity issues in the movie there are plenty. Besides Jamal being a poor black student from the Bronx going to an elite predominantly upper class school with white professors and Jamal dating a member of the board's daughter, there really isn't that much diversity in the film (just kidding). In the film, one can see that at the slightest hint of racism, Jamal goes on the offensive and bashes out, until Forrester teaches him…
Jamal's pessimistic surroundings neglected his ability to create meaningful passages. When he was a young child his mental image of the world was changed when his father abandoned his family. He tried to fit in through means of being a typical child. Jamal's participation was just enough to not stick out amongst his fellow pears. He faced many challenges at home. Their family was relatively poor and he lived in a hectic environment. To cope with his unstable home he played basketball all the while treating his writing talents as just a hobby. Jamal's pessimistic surroundings were worsened by not having a father.…
Q1. We learn about the type of people who live in the neighborhood. It sets up the stereotype of young black youth living in the Bronx, New York. It shows the setting as a city with high-rise buildings and people who are not in wealth. It shows the struggles they have to go thorough.…
Once he attends the new private school, he is given a complete different experience. Jamal's passion for writing is kept secret; he hides in his room reading and writing. During the class, the English teacher asks Jamal about thee significance of "the raven", he responds that he had never read this prom before. He was afraid to be different and though his friends would leave him if he told them about his writing. That’?s also the reason that he didn’?t tell his friends about his high test scores. Instead, he showed off his genius in basketball, since it made him fit in school. However, the school discovered Jamal's test scores, and thinks public school might not be the right place for him. The Easton's best private school offers Jamal a scholarship. As his friend, William, encourages him to find an answer, which Jamal believes will be found at the private school. When Jamal attends the new school, his experience was changed. He works hard to fit in his new school because the majority of people are white and more educated. Jamal had a big conflict with Mr. Crawford--his new English teacher. There were lots of problems that Mr. Crawford had against Jamal, most of which were based on as well as Jamal's race and as well as his writing talent. Even though Jamal's life changes dramatically after he transfers to a new school, he never gives up when he is treated…
Jamal Wallace is a Black American talented 16-year-old basketball player in Bronx, New York whose secret passion is writing. William Forrester is a reclusive Pulitzer Prize- winning novelist who never gave the world a second novel. After an accidental meeting, Forrester becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor, providing guidance to help the young man's exceptional skills. Soon, Forresters harsh view of the world begins to change as both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.…
what he did and how he did it also that he and AJ are from the same place and all of the assumptions that are attached, and he wants to have an opportunity to go to Harvard. I love the end when Malcolm told a story of “two students”,” Geek or Menace”, and states how he has been caught in between most of his life, meaning “how I really am, and how I’m perceived. This one line is a struggle that African American men deal with daily. With that being said; Eduardo Bonilla-Silva hit the nail on the head by writing: “Despite whites’ belief that residential and school segregation, friend-ship, and attraction are natural and raceless occurrences, social scientists have documented how racial considerations affect all these issues. (87)” Malcolm had aspirations to do more with his life, than what was expected of him in the eyes of…
Jamal is a lower class person, he always did well in school and was always a winner on the basketball court. He got a full ride to Mailor-Callow on an Academic scholarship; however he ended up trying out for the basketball team. He was a very bright student and did very well at this college. Jamal writes a paper and Mr. Crawford suspected him for plagiarism. Jamal denied him and said that it was his own words. Jamal copied the title and first paragraph of one of Forresters writings, and he did not cite it or prove he had permission. So the school gives him an option. He either gets in trouble of he must win the championship basketball game for the team. The game comes down to the end where he had a chance to win the game and this is where the quote, “No more lessons. I have a question, though. Those two foul shots at the end of the game...did you miss them or did you miss them?” comes into play. Jamal purposely missed both of the shots and lost them the game because he was mad and knew he was right about his paper that he wrote. They take the charges to the board and Jamal end up proving them wrong and he has the charges dropped.…
First, there’s the expectation that he must not make mistakes. A young black man’s mistakes seem to be a heavy burden that he carries his entire life. No matter how small the error may be or how long ago it was committed it seems to never be overlooked. He can grow up and become…
Jamal is faced with a lot of challenges in the movie.The first challenge is that there is a man who watches Jamal and his friends play basketball he is called “The man in the window.” Jamal and his friends think he…
The movie is good example how two individual from different age group and ethic group develops friendship. In the movie both character came together as friends, on one common ground, that's literature. They began to trust each as spent more time discussing, reading and writing literature. Through that started to share more personal detail about themselves and both of the character helped each other to overcome challenges that they face in life. Friendship should not have boundaries it should be based on common interest and age should not be a factor.…
Jamal has been picked to attend a Prep School, a free ride reflecting on both academic and athlete abilities. Much to Jamal’s surprise, Forrester not only accepts the open role of a fatherly figure, but also a brother type. Forrester basically commends Jamal on his writing and asks him, “Just what is it you want to do with your life? A question your present school cannot answer for you” (Finding Forrester).…
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.…
One way we can prevent stereotypes from being used is to not use them ourselves and encourage others to do the same. In the article “Stop the Stereotypes” the author, Shalita Grant, states, “ Stop supporting films and plays that perpetuate stereotypes. Stop a friend who makes any remark about someone’s character based on race.” Being part of the…