John Forbes Nash's A Beautiful Mind

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In life humans are often exposed to risk. For the average highschool student, peer pressure is a risk presented through a social manipulation. The student pressured by their peer can avoid this pressure entirely, or fall into the maze of consequences that the pressure has in store. Peer pressure’s risk can be avoided, but some risks in the world are a compulsive offspring of capitalistic America—a social institution endured by every American. As Americans, we can choose to hate the private corporations that gentrify, classify, and monopolize at the expense of the American people; Or we can justify monetary corruptions as perpetual flaw, and tread risk through an elusive passageway that leads to the upper American class. John Forbes Nash was …show more content…
Author of A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar stated, “No one was more obsessed [than Nash] with originality, more disdainful of authority, or more jealous of his independence.” John Forbes Nash, Jr., was born almost exactly four years after his parents’ marriage, on June 13, 1928 (Nasar 25). Nash had exceptional parents. Parents, who dreamed of opportunities for Nash’s genius. Nash’s father, John Nash Sr., was an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company; Nash’s mother was a school teacher before she married (People & Events: John Nash 1). As a young boy, Nash had all the aspects of a genius. Nash was solitary, bookish, and introverted. Nash’s early schooling yielded little evidence of his intellectual talent. Nash’s fourth-grade report card, in which music and mathematics were his lowest marks, contained a note to the effect that nash needed, “improvement in effort, study habits, and respect for the rules” (Nasar 26). Nash performed excellently in high school. During high school Nash took private courses in English, science, and math at the local Bluefield college (Nasar 26). Nash was a studious young man, whose social awkwardness would eventually be justified by the originality of his ideas at Carnegie and
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