Jamal is a very self motivated person and shows a lot of traits throughout the movie that motivates him even more. One of the main people that motivated Jamal I believe is Forrester, even though Forrester wasn’t clearly noticed as a motivator, he motivated him to continue to do good because he knew he had it inside him. I also believe basketball was a motivation to him because he had to do good in school to continue to be on the basketball team he was on. Lastly all of the negative feedback from others were nothing but motivation to him, just because people didn’t like him or picked on him for things such as plagiarizing it never stopped him from trying hard. I believe these factors were intrinsic because they were just made naturally. They
