Fear In Finding Forrester

Finding Fear

Have you ever feared what was outside your house and you would not leave for an extended period of time, well in this case William Forrester did this very thing. He came to think after his brother had died in an accident that people were crazy. In this very example Forrester is in the ER talking to a nurse while his brother is sitting in a room in the hospital without a pulse because he was killed in a car accident. The nurse tells Forrester how much the book that he wrote meant to her. The questions begin to start pouring out of Foresters head, how could someone be so insensitive. In the film Finding Forrester fear is demonstrated mentally and physically. Forester who is a very powerful writer in the movie lives in a apartment

Between classes Jamal was writing at home Jamal was writing and when Jamal was not writing he was playing Basketball. But there is a problem Jamal does not really fit in with the rest of his friends. In the sense that Jamal is a great writer and his friends careless about writing. Jamals way of fitting in is being one of the best basketball players in the bronx. Jamals takes a statewide test and his scores were unbelievable, Jamal does not want anybody to know about his test scores because he fears that the other boys will not appreciate him for his amazing talent. His brother say to him “Hey, I heard about those test scores” and Jamal replies with “do me a favor and let’s keep them between me and you”. This conversation between Jamal and his brother shows that he is fearful of what his friends may come to think of him if they hear about his great test scores. Also in the movie Jamal’s mother meets with the Guidance Counselor and the Guidance Counselor tells Jamal's mom that he maintains a C average which is good enough to pass and play basketball, but not good enough to excel and achieve greatness. This is another example of Jamal’s fear of standing out and being the best writer that he could be. This all changed, when he met William Forester who is in the movie a famous well known author. In the movie Jamal is dared by his friends to go up into the apartment and see who the weird man is that is constantly looking out the window at the boys playing basketball. All of a sudden Jamal’s fear goes away and does something crazy, he climbs up into the man's apartment building with no permission and goes through his stuff. All of a sudden Forester scares Jamal and Jamal drops his backpack and runs out of the place. The next day when Jamal is walking home William throws his backpack out the window. Jamal goes home and realizes that William also shares a passion in writing. Jamal becomes