Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Plagiarism and Finding Forrester


   There are six questions asking the relationship between main character Jamal in the movie Finding Forrester and plagiarism. Although, there are all thoughtful  questions for the plagiarism, I want to discuss two of the interesting questions in this blog. First of all, the question whether the Jamal's plagiarism influence the decision that Jamal is a very good writer. In terms of myself, the answer is no, because plagiarism is just a part of the Jamal's academic career. Specifically speaking, in the movie, Jamal hand in his final paper with some paragraphs copying from the Forrester's works in the situation Jamal do not know Forrester's work has been published in the New York Times before. Furthermore, a good writer is defined as a author who have an unique view towards the society or can expertly use his own words to encourage people. Due to this point, Jamal absolutely is a good writer because Jamal has his own unique opinion towards some of the societies' issues and use expertly words to show his opinion.
   Secondly, other question is that in the basketball championship game, whether the Jamal is intentionally miss the two shoots or not. In my opinion, Jamal miss the two shoots on purpose. Specifically speaking, before this game begin, Jamal acquire a punishment that can no longer stay in the school. This punishment may give Jamal a thought that the winning of the game is not his matter, so he can treat this two shoots unceremoniously. Moreover, before Jamal throw his ball, he has a eye contact with his professor who gives the punishment for Jamal and his best friend Clare.
  Finally, although there are several aspect talking about the plagiarism, this is not a good movie to discuss the plagiarism. The reason why this is not a appropriate movie is its main thesis is the changes in Forrester and Jamal instead of plagiarism.

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