Thursday, December 6, 2012

Blog 10 Answer to Survey Questions-Yuhang Yi

There is a survey addresses several questions about the movie Finding Forrester. They are deep-thinking questions and some of them are even though-provoking.

For the Question 5, the Column 5 shows that over 70% students in the survey don’t think Jamal understand why Forrester told him not to submit anything he wrote with Forrester. This can be the right answer. Jamal probably basically understands it. He may think the reason is that those work are Forrester’s properties so he can not take them instead of considering plagiarism. According to the setting, Jamal comes from a black public school where doesn’t have excellent education which could be the reason that he is lack of correct writing skill.

On Question 6, the chat shows that 7/10 students believe that Jamal intentionally miss the two free throws in the championship game. This is reasonable. Before shooting those two free throws, he has glanced Claire and Professor Crawford. This should be the hint for why he misses two free throws later. Jamal wants to prove his writing by himself instead of using school’s sympathy. And also earlier in the movie, Jamal makes 50 straight free throws and that means he should be good at shooting.

Finally back to Question 4, the data indicates that there are as twice as many students think that plagiarism doesn’t matter Jamal as a very good writer. Jamal is being talented in writing but that doesn’t mean everything he writes is correct. Talent is inborn, but he still needs to be educated to use his talent and follow the rules. Even there’s only 32% students vote for “Yes”, but in my perspective, I will stand on their side.

In general, those are good questions which help me think and understand this movie much better.

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