Blog 8 Finding Forrester

  Jamal Wallace, a black teenager who studied at a local high school at Bronx, New York City, is a main character in the movie” Finding Forrester”. In this movie, Jamal is good at playing basketball and often practices basketball in the court with his friends. They noticed someone watching their playing from a window; thus, Jamal accepted the challenge of finding out this strange people. After he successfully sneaked into this stranger’s window, he left his bag at stranger’s apartment. When he walked on the street and talked with a postman, he found his missing bag thrown down and his writing had been commented by this stranger. Afterwards, he wanted more help in his writing, visiting this stranger again. The stranger started to be familiar with Jamal and helped his writing. Then, Jamal got the opportunity of studying at a private school with scholarship based on his talented basketball skills and high test scores. After Jamal entered this new school, Jamal’s new writing professor, Crawford, asked students to read a book and write essays. Jamal found this stranger who helps him is the author of this book and the winner of Pulitzer Price, Forrester. Then, Jamal took Forrester go around and Forrester told his story with his brother as the reason of his reclusive life to Jamal. After Jamal submitted his essay, Crawford found that Jamal’s work is kind of similar to Forrester’s points, and charged Jamal of plagiarism.Then, Jamal asked Forrester for help, but Forrester refused this request. After losing the title of basketball match, Jamal wrote a letter to Forrester which touched him. Finally, Forrester stood out publicly to prove the integrity of Jamal.

  In my opinion, the plot of this movie is so unexpected. The two most unexpected plots are Jamal found out Forrester was exactly the stranger who helped his writing and Jamal took Forrester into the Yankee Stadium to give him this birthday present. Although I can guess some connection between this stranger with Forrester by the movie name “Finding Forrester”, but I originally thought this stranger helped Jamal to find Forrester. In addition, I was surprised to see Jamal was so attentive to notice the motion of Forrester to Yankee Stadium and help him to get into Yankee Stadium.