1. Following Your Dreams and Passions: Why does Jamal choose a different path than the other boys in the movie?

In “ Finding Forrester “ Jamal was raised by his single mom. He started writing on his notes, since his father left from the Jamal’s family.

Jamal: I didn’t knock this time.

Forrester: I know you are sneaking.

Jamal: I don’t go until I have my five thousands words back.

Forrester:  lock the door if you are coming in. The man was in the car?

Jamal: Hmmmm, He was from the private school. He wants me to go there. We don’t have to pay anything though. We live a couple of blocks from here man me, and my mom. Hmmmmm, My brother was here a couple of year ago but he left after my dad left.

Jamal: Hmmm, My mom got tired away from dad himself to clean and my dad got tired to trying, that’s why I started to writing.

Jamal has a passion on reading, writing and he was inspired by Forrester after Jamal saw the correction on his notes. Jamal saw Forrester as a father figured that he could look up to. Below is the reading of the letter by Jamal Wallace, which he wrote to Forrester.

“ Loosing family! Loosing family obliges us to find our family. Not always the family that is our blood but the family that become our blood and should we have the wisdom to open our doors to our new family. We will find that our wishes we had for the father who ones guided us, and brother who ones inspired us. Those wishes……music…..! The only thing left to say will be I wish I had to see this or I wish I had done that, I whish……! “

Jamal passion on reading and writing was main key of different path than the other boys in the movie and writing was the way to expressing his emotion.

2. On that night Jamal took Forrester to the Yankees game after he saw the album in Forrester apartment, because Forrester and his brother were likes to go watch the game. It was also Forrester birthday and it was treat from Jamal as a gift from the son who was not related as a biological father. There was a moment of fear in Jamal’s eyes when Jamal loose Forrester in the crowd for a few minutes. He found the Forrester standing alone by the dark corner from the crowd. Jamal took Forrester from the huge audience to quite place, which was on their way to Forrester apartment. Jamal paid for the private time in open stadium for Forrester on his birth date present.

This scene was very touching to me as a relationship between father and son even though there was not blood connection between these two. This scene also shows the meaning of true friendship as well as father and son relation, when Jamal softly grab the Forrester hand from the fear of the crowd, as the father grab when their children’s fall down on the ground. Jamal seems very responsible son in this scene and he didn’t want to loose his father again.

3.  This quote was taken at end of the movie, which Forrester wrote to Jamal before he died. Jamal open that letter with the knife he took from Forrester apartment on the night he left his backpack.

“ Dear Jamal, Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed. You need to know that while I knew so very early that you would realize your dreams, I never imagined I would once again realize my own. Seasons change young man, and while I may have waited until the winter of my life, to see the things I’ve seen this past year there is no doubt I would have waited too long, had it not been for you.”