Good Will Hunting Research Paper

Good Will Hunting
The Five stages of change
By
Charlotte lynch

Will Hunting was looked upon as a normal kid who had be in and out of the system. His parents abandoned him when he was very young. Leaving him at the hands of abusive foster parents. While working as a janitor at MIT, he solves a problem that took Professor 2 years to prove. But he does not come forward and claim his ‘Prize’. Instead he hides and runs when he is caught solving another problem. Will and his friends jump a guy, who use to pick on Will in middle school. Will loses control of him-self and hits a cop who is trying to break up the fight. Professor works out deal with the judge, so Will, will have to start going to counseling and work with

Sean: So if I asked you about art you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written...Michelangelo? (beat) You know a lot about him. Life 's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you can 't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You 've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that..... You 're a tough kid. I ask you about war, and you 'd probably--uh--throw Shakespeare at me, right? "Once more into the breach, dear friends." But you 've never been near one….. I look at you; I don 't see an intelligent, confident man; I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you 're a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine and you ripped my fuckin ' life apart. You 're an orphan right? (Will nods) Do you think I 'd know the first thing about how hard ! your life has been, how you feel, who you are because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don 't give a shit about all that, because you know what? I can 't learn anything from you I can 't read in some fuckin ' book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. And I 'm fascinated. I 'm in. But you don 't wanna do that, do you, sport? You 're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief. (Sean stands and walks away.)