Finding Forrester is a coming of age and drama movie released in the year 2000. This movie includes three main characters Jamal Wallace, a 16-year-old African American boy, William Forrester, a reclusive author, and Professor Robert Crawford, an English professor at a private school. Jamal faces many barriers in his journey, but one very prominent one is how race and background influences writing. Finding Forrester is constructed well in representing this one very important aspect of the movie. Since Professor Crawford is the antagonist and Jamal is the main protagonist, this helps set up the basis of the conflict. Professor Crawford was too harsh on Jamal because he did not have an open mind about Jamal. Jamal’s environment kept him from
