Finding Forrester Character Analysis

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Transformation becomes something that everyone needs to have happen, and Jamal and Forrester are able to do this in a way that will benefit their lives forever. In Finding Forrester a young man by the name of Jamal, a 16 year old from the Bronx turns out to be an extremely gifted writer and basketball player. He decides to hide his talent in writing from others until a dare comes up where he goes into a mysterious man's house to take something when in reality this became one of the most important moments of his life. He in a way meets William Forrester who wrote one book which happens to be extremely popular even after 40 years, although after this first book he went into hiding and no one ever saw him again. As this moves on a true friendship …show more content…

Jamal got a dare to raid a man’s apartment, faced with the conflict of raiding a mystery man’s house he decided to go up and do it. This lead to the best decision of his life since in the apartment he meets William Forrester. Who would transform him into a great author and affect him forever. Stephen Holden states that(Holden S. 3) “A hotshot on the court sneaks into Forresters apartment and surprises the author, who scares him off with a roar,” this becomes important due to the fact that this created the relationship that will be needed. Now that they can help each other, one being with writing and the other with getting out into the world. This meant a great deal since Jamal can now focus on his writing and show more of himself. This relates since he needed someone to show him the way of writing and William became the pathway to success in writing. Jamal had a gift in basketball and helped his team get to the state championship, where the game became extremely close. Then after the game ended, he had two free throws to win or lose, where he decided to miss to prove that he can do more than basketball, that he has exceptional writing abilities as well. Which showed others him transforming from a basketball star to him becoming an author which surprised everyone else. (Paul C. pg2) “The only fellow student who reaches out is Clair.” This means that people wouldn’t get near him since he had his differences from the students surrounding him, and only Clair took the time to get close to him. This shows that an experience like moving to a new place requires others to help them. Then only Clair in the school helps while everyone else dislikes him and wants him to fail, not just not acknowledge them as a person. This influenced Jamal in a bad way most of the time, he had Crawford doing everything he could to make him fail, luckily Forrester and Clair would help him find a way to get over

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