Before meeting Forrester, Jamal was living according
to what his environment was leading him to. As the movie shows, Jamal hides his
good writing skills as if it was not soothing to be pound of. Instead, Jamal tries
to fit in with his group of friend with basketball talent and grade C inside
classroom. However, what really makes him happy is reading and writing. Having to
hide his magnificent talent in writing, Jamal seems in his new friend someone
who he could trust and count with to teach him how to do a better writing. In
addition, Forrest was the first friend who would accept him for his talent in
writing and not for his talent in basketball.
On the other side, Forrester, a lonely man who keeps
family lost pain for 50 years. Avoiding any relationship because it might lead
to pain, Forrester see in Jamal what a relationship is about. Nevertheless,
this friendship changed Jamal and Forrester life. Forrester would never expect
to learn so much about friendship from Jamal, as himself said that Jamal even
surprises him. Because of Jamal, William Forrester finally overcome the pain
that he kept for so long after losing his family and learned what a true
friendship is.
They become really good friends after Jamal
insistence of going to Forrester apartment every day, even though Forrester doesn’t like
the idea of Jamal visiting every day. The most significant about this relationship
is that Forrester believes in Jamal. He believes that he has the ability to
write. Thus, their show that sometimes we can learn things from people we
wouldn't expect to learn.
My favorite scene is when Forrester shows at Jamal’s school
to read his letter and protect a friend from an accusation of plagiarism.
I like this scene because it shows how Forrester care about
his friend Jamal. As Jamal has showing loyalty keep up his promise not mentioning
anything about his friendship with Forrester, it was really nice from William
to face all those people who were invent studying his book at the moment, to
defend a friend.
My favorite quote is when Forrester start teaching Jamal how to become a better writer saying:
“You must write your first draft with your heart. You
rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!”
This shows that Forrester believe that Jamal has ability to
write and because of that he started to teach him to become a better writer.
