Examples Of Conflict In Finding Forrester

Courage is a force that can make us do incredible things and can help us bring out our true selves. In the film Finding Forrester, Jamal is a young black student who lives in a slum of New York City, he is an incredible student that loves to write and has great basketball skills. Also the mysterious William Forrester, a writer whom has been living in hiding for over 30 years. This powerful story tells how Jamal gaines the courage with William to complete their goals. One of the first points of conflict in the film is Jamal being smart. Jamal is a extremely smart kid, but he hides this fact out of fear of being ostracized by his friends. So, he aims for the middle of the scores to hide himself. Paul Clinton states “He hides his academic abilities

To keep his friends he needed to stay stupid for them. Not like how he actually is, and CC needs courage to show his true intellect. To complete his goal of going to a better school, he needed William Forester to push him to being uncomfortable and strive to do the best that he could at his writing and his intelligence. Not only did William help him see the self that he hid away from others, but also CR the self that he hid from himself. Another conflict that appears in the film is William not going outside his apartment. At a point in time William became to famous for his own comfort, and people started talking to him about his book when he deemed it an inappropriate time to. One instance happened while his brother was in the hospital which scared him because,IP when his brother died he lost a family to rely on. Movielocity states “Family isn’t always what you’re born with.” (2001,pg.1) William had to find a new family in Jamal to forgive his past, and to build a new family to finally go outside again. William had to find the courage in his interactions with Jamal, who was being like a new family to him, to go outside. He lived his life in total isolation

In this apartment, Jamal gained the courage to go to the new school with the help of William. “Forrester’s apartment, full of dusty stacks of classic tomes and the furious sound of a clicking typewriter, quickly becomes the place where the two writers meet.” (Berardinelli, 2000,p2) Jamal and William found a strong friendship in this apartment and became family. Jamal wrote many papers in the apartment; therefore,CA these let Jamal gain courage in his new school and William gained the courage to go outside. This apartment was used in the films as the main setting, and CC as such it was the place where many goals were completed. Both of these two struggle in their lives to get their goals, and CR after many hours of work achieved the goals. This apartment is so important because Jamal gaines the courage and experience to go to his new school and show his intellect, and for William to find the family that he lost and gain the fortitude to go outside.Another setting where people changed for the better is in Crawford’s classroom. Crawford had a lot of courage in his classroom and challenged everyone who started to gain their own courage in his classroom. Levy states that, “A crucial scene at school, in which Jamal is reprimanded for his conduct, function as the equivalent of a courtroom scene, in which an inflexible teacher is contrasted with good