With Honors
College is a time when young adults are left to discover who they are and how they want to act. Montgomery (Monty) Kessler is a Harvard College student in the movie With Honors. Throughout the movie, Monty changes from a very closed-minded individual to a very accepting and open-minded person after meeting a homeless man named Simon Wilder. In the beginning, Monty judged Simon harshly for being homeless, and didn’t want anything to do with him. He was using him to get his senior thesis back. Eventually, Monty and Simon started being friendlier toward each other after Monty helps Simon regardless of personal gain. At the very end of the movie, Monty is not only depicted as one of Simon’s best friends, but as part of Simon’s family. Monty was extremely narrow minded in the beginning of the movie. Montgomery and Simon meet after Monty trips and drops his senior thesis down a grate. Simon ends up holding the thesis hostage from Monty. Later, after coming back to his house empty handed, his roommates are trying to console him about his thesis and he states, …show more content…
However, he starts seeing who Simon truly is despite his own personal bias. By the end of the movie, it is revealed that Monty and Simon became so close that Simon considered him to be family, which is a drastic improvement from when they first met. In the beginning of the movie, Monty starts out with an extremely narrow view of the world. By the end of the movie, it is clear that Monty has grown up a bit, and has widened his view of the world. He realizes that there are more important things in life than graduating with honors. Simon showed Monty that he could still go through life with honor. College isn’t the only way that people can drastically change their lives. Sometimes it just takes an unlikely friendship to break through someone’s ignorance and show them what is truly
College is a time when young adults are left to discover who they are and how they want to act. Montgomery (Monty) Kessler is a Harvard College student in the movie With Honors. Throughout the movie, Monty changes from a very closed-minded individual to a very accepting and open-minded person after meeting a homeless man named Simon Wilder. In the beginning, Monty judged Simon harshly for being homeless, and didn’t want anything to do with him. He was using him to get his senior thesis back. Eventually, Monty and Simon started being friendlier toward each other after Monty helps Simon regardless of personal gain. At the very end of the movie, Monty is not only depicted as one of Simon’s best friends, but as part of Simon’s family. Monty was extremely narrow minded in the beginning of the movie. Montgomery and Simon meet after Monty trips and drops his senior thesis down a grate. Simon ends up holding the thesis hostage from Monty. Later, after coming back to his house empty handed, his roommates are trying to console him about his thesis and he states, …show more content…
However, he starts seeing who Simon truly is despite his own personal bias. By the end of the movie, it is revealed that Monty and Simon became so close that Simon considered him to be family, which is a drastic improvement from when they first met. In the beginning of the movie, Monty starts out with an extremely narrow view of the world. By the end of the movie, it is clear that Monty has grown up a bit, and has widened his view of the world. He realizes that there are more important things in life than graduating with honors. Simon showed Monty that he could still go through life with honor. College isn’t the only way that people can drastically change their lives. Sometimes it just takes an unlikely friendship to break through someone’s ignorance and show them what is truly