One is William Frost, the Pulitzer Prize winner who lives in a small apartment without leaving home, and the other is Jammer Wallace, a black boy who grew up in a slum but loves basketball. The two who were originally unrelated began to meet due to mischief.
Jammer is a sixteen-year-old boy who lacks courage. Except for basketball, which everyone loves, he rarely talks about writing with his peers. Since he was living in a poverty-stricken area of Manhattan, he has long learned to hide his true inner thoughts, doing things that are similar to everyone, discussing topics similar to everyone's life, because only in this way can he be recognized and integrated into it. Faced with the teacher’s question, the companion showed nothing to know. Even if he knew the answer, he chose to shake his head to answer; he did not actively report his excellent results in the assessment test to his mother, so as not to make his brother feel uncomfortable.
Jammer broke into the writer William's house late at night because of a courageous bet among his companions, but ran away in a panic and left his schoolbag. William flipped through the stack of notebooks in the boy's schoolbag and corrected the mistakes he had made.
When William expressed surprise at the sixteen-year-old Jammer’s outstanding writing talent, he casually said "and you are still black." Jammer became extremely excited and tried his best to refute William's argument that he was a black person. However, in fact, there was no racial prejudice in William's words. The two met for the first time and broke up unhappy. Thinking about it, we can see that behind Jammer's strong self-esteem is inferiority complex.
Jammer was angrily approaching the writer to reason, but found that the writer's comments were profound and reasonable. With his excellent test results, Jammer was invited by the Mailer Carlow School to join the school's basketball team. Jammer and William talked about Professor Rob Kerford’s doubts about his learning ability in the school’s writing class.
In a writing class, Jammer accidentally discovered that William was the true identity of a famous writer, and "coerced" William to teach him writing. William reluctantly agreed but asked Jammer not to reveal his identity to the outside world, but asked about the writer's family and life, and could not take out all the manuscripts in the house. During the in-depth communication between the two, William gradually discovered the boy's talent for writing, and the boy also found that William was unable to stay behind closed doors for a long time due to the guilt of his relatives passing away in the accident. At school, other whites always looked at him with suspicion due to differences in race color and family financial status.
William suggested that Jammer should try to prove his writing talent to Kefu. William is not only full of confidence in Jammer's writing ability, but also believes in his self-confidence as a writer. He disdains the self-righteous evaluation and analysis of his works from the outside world. That old typewriter seems to be his powerful weapon against the world and critics. In his opinion, the first draft of the work only needs to be written with heart by tapping the keyboard, and then thinking about the revision with the brain. When Jammer was hesitating about writing, William took out his work "The Perfect Season of Faith" and said to Jammer, "Type it, and sometimes the rhythm of typing helps us progress from page one to page two smoothly. .
When a word of your own appears in your mind, try to type it out. "William conveyed to Jammer the writing wisdom that I wrote and therefore I am, encouraging him to express his inner thoughts freely. Jammer was inspired and infected by this, and learned to type his own on the keyboard. Works. When William expressed his views on the use of conjunctions to begin a paragraph in his works, Jammer explained that in order to express the emphasis of the content, he said that many great writers in the history of literature are accustomed to this way of writing, including William himself. Smile knowingly at Jammer's answer, because he understands that Jammer has learned to be confident and brave at this time.
As a writer, William has the courage to challenge habits. However, facing the death of his relatives due to an accident, he chose to close himself. He has long been accustomed to living alone, and over time he didn't even have the courage to step out of the house, just observing the outside world through glass windows and binoculars. On William's birthday, in the vast and empty baseball field, William was telling the heartache of the past. Jammer just listened carefully, because he understood that company is more important than conversation.
In the face of Professor Rob Coff’s deliberately making things difficult for Jammer, Jammer chose to forbear, but he openly opposed the professor’s deliberate questioning of his classmate John Corey. Under the conflict, he was forced to leave the classroom.
In order to retaliate against Jammer, Professor Kefu proposed to the school that Jammer’s entries were suspected of plagiarizing others. The helpless Jammer seeks William to prove his innocence, but William makes Jammer take responsibility for himself.
The two broke out in the fiercest quarrel ever. William insisted that the reason why he stayed behind closed doors was because of the unfairness of the world. When the critical moment of his family's life was hanging by a thread, others didn't care at all.
Jammer pointedly pointed out: William did not provide help within his capacity and ignored the difficulties encountered by others. In fact, he has become the same behavior as the nurse back then. And he stayed behind closed doors all day, hiding behind this window to spy on the world, which is actually a manifestation of lack of courage.
At the moment when the basketball finals were determined to win or lose, the school board members proposed to Jammer: As long as he wins the game, he can be removed from the investigation. And Jammer successfully defended his dignity and chose to deliberately not shoot. He has grown up, and this kind of growth has occurred in the conflict with real life, the struggle with Kefu, and even the argument with William.
William watched the basketball game live on TV. He silently turned off the TV, stood in front of the window and carefully wiped the glass, thinking about what Jammer said earlier. In the end, he plucked up the courage to move out of the bicycle that had not been used for many years, and walked around the city in the dark.
The next morning, when he was moved by a letter written by Jammer late last night, he suddenly realized that what he was looking forward to most at his age was a precious friendship. Jammer made a promise that a friend should make, and he is also obligated to do something for Jammer.
So he came to the school and read the letter from Jammer in front of all the teachers and students to prove Jammer's innocence.
At the same time, I realized the life I was looking for. Finally, William died of terminal illness in his hometown. He entrusted a lawyer to deliver the keys to the apartment and a book co-authored by the two to Jammer.
Jammer lost his father and William lost his family. They are all looking for someone to fill this gap. In the process of serving as each other's soul visitors again and again, they became each other's most cherished relatives.
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