Introduction to Piece Two

Throughout this course I have had many strong responses and assignments as well as a few weak assignments. One in particular includes my first timed write on the movie Finding Forrester. The original assignment was to develop a thesis driven discussion on what it is like to be an outside while using one or two characters from the film. I was also asked to answer how this definition challenges my own understanding of being an outsider. I had an hour to complete this assignment and I will be the first to admit that writing under pressure with a significantly little amount of time is not easy, but doable. If I had more time, I would have derived a clearer and more solid thesis to direct the rest of my response as well as include how the film creates its own opinion about outsiders and how it creates sympathy for outsiders. This piece is not my original response, but is a revision of how I would like the assignment to look if I had more time.