Finding Forrester: Movie Analysis

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Finding Forrester was a movie that can change the way people get looked at it shows that no matter what a person looks like they can prove a group of people wrong. Jamal was a boy from the bronx in a bad neighborhood, who went to a bad school. Everyone he encountered pulled him down they were the crabs in the bottom of the bucket he was the one who wanted to get to the top and people did not like that he had a chance to do better than them. Although Jamal climbed out of the bucket he was pulled down by William, Crawford, and the neighborhood he was in.

The one thing that brought down Jamal the most was the place he lived in made people think he was just like everyone else he thought that everyone saw him the same way and then the best thing happen to him that could have he meet William. But because he lived in the “hood” people looked at him like he was one of the same people they see not
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Crawford he pulled Jamal down the farthest down and the most so he could not get out as easy as he should have been able to. Crawford know that Jamal was a better writer than he would ever be and he did not want him to know it at all. William knew why Crawford was being hard on Jamal and that was Crawford saw William Forrester in Jamal and did not want him to become as good as he really is because it would not be fair to everyone because he was that good Crawford saw that Jamal was a good writer so he use his background to try to say he could not be this good when he truly is just that good at what he does just because he came from the Bronx has nothing to do with it Jamal was no is better than what he

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