Transformation In Finding Forrester

Growing up in a world, where one lives and income determines how one's future will become, would one choose to go down the same path as everyone else or go down the path best fit for them. Transitions are never easy and for Jamal a kind from the Bronx who was incredibly intelligent on and off the court , he could never decide which way to go. From the beginning Jamal made a connection through his writing as he and Forrester a older gentlemen who sat all day in his apartment watching the boys play basketball and bird watching crossed paths, as his love for writing grew. As his relationship with Forrester grew Jamal transformed into the person his friends would hate but the person he needed to become. He saw the obstacles in his life and transferred them to his writing, as he grew Forrester grew, he learned how to love …show more content…
In Finding Forrester, an individual's growth and change depends on who is included in their surrounding environment; by seeing how others live helps one make a transformation into who that person will be in the future. People transform into better individuals by whom they involve in their lives. As the main character Jamal decides to take a dare from one of his classmates he breaks into Foresters home. When he breaks in he doesn’t notice that Forrester is still awake, he later finds out by being chased out of the house. While Jamal returns home for the night, he realizes he left his book bag at Forresters house, to later on the next day thrown out of Forresters with his journal entries revised. In the beginning Jamal doesn’t want to show is smarts, “ But he hids his academic abilities from his friends in fear of being rejected as an intellectual snob”(CNN, 2001, p.2). Jamal hides his individualism by hiding his