![]() ![]() ![]() One night Forrest drives to Memphis, Tennessee to meet Jenny. Bubba and his family earn their money catching and selling shrimps.įorrest feels good in the army because he just has to stand still and to do what he is ordered to do.īut Forrest misses Jenny and his mother very much. Then he joins the army where he meets Bubba. Later he plays in the All American Football Team and meets President Kennedy. In his 5 years of being at university he just has to play football and does not understand why it is a problem that black people are allowed to study there. So he gets a scholarship for the University of Alabama. He runs very fast and so one day he is discovered as a great football player. The other boys dislike Forrest and they hunt him. Jenny is a girl who is raped by her father and so she tries to be together with Forrest as long as possible. He is an outsider and his only friend is Jenny Curran. Because he must have an IQ of 80 to go to public school his mother sleeps with the headmaster of the school. The boy is an idiot because his IQ is only around 70. His father was killed by a large amount of bananas falling down on him.įorrest got his name from General Nathan Bedford Forrest who fought in the American Civil War and founded the Ku Klux Klan. ![]() The book is about the life of an American "idiot" called Forrest Gump.įorrest lives in Greenbow, Alabama with his mother. ![]()
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