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The Value of Friendship: Why is Jamal and Forrester’s friendship significant in the film?

The values of friendships are the fact that you have someone to help you and you can lean on them. They make sure you aren't worried about anything. Without friendships, we wouldn't have anyone to always be by our sides. That's how Jamal and Forrester's friendship was like. At first they did not get along as much. But as time went on, it became more significant along the way because they understood each other. When Jamal was having a tough time doing his first draft, Forrester helped him and gave him advice by saying,"No thinking - that comes later. 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!" He means that Jamal should not been thinking,he just should have written his draft freely and with just using his head. The scene that i liked from this movie is scene twenty-six. Forrester finally comes out of his apartment to go to the school for Jamal. He goes to the class and reads Jamal's personal paper "Losing Family." After he finished reading, he stated that Jamal wrote it without his help and that he did not plagiarize. The school board takes that paper and add it to the writing contest. During that scene, I realized how grateful Forrester was for meeting Jamal. If they never met, Forrester would have never left his apartment and Jamal would have never shared his writing with others. Without each other, they have never accomplished the things they did now, even when Forrester passed away.