Forrest Gump
Essay Preview: Forrest Gump
Report this essay
“Forrest Gump”
In the movie, “Forrest Gump,” the plot is developed through the Tom Hanks Character through out the movie. The movie is about the life of a man named Forrest Gump. This movie was a sad, but enticing movie that started off with the main character Forrest Gump sitting on a bench waiting for a bus, and telling his life story to total strangers that are sitting next to him waiting for there bus. Forrest Gump is a slow individual that lived an interesting life. Forrest was not a normal individual, but lived more of a normal life then others in the movie did. He was a happy individual that never let anything, or anyone come in the way of him. There were only two things in life that he loved, Jennie and his mother, then when his child was born, his child. The movie starts off with Forrest sitting on a bench, waiting for his bus while eating chocolates, telling his life story to the individual next to him.
Forrest Gump is on the bus bench, and starts talking about his childhood. As a child, Forrest had difficulty walking, so his father put metal leg braces to hold his week legs in place so he could walk. He was constantly made fun of, and none of the little children wanted to even talk or sit next to him. It shows how the town saw him as a weird dumb child. He was always getting picked on and chased after school. But one day when on the bus, he sat next to a nice young girl called Jennie. She saw through the image that everyone sees, and saw a nice caring young man. It is viewed that Jennie meant a lot to him in his life, because every time he did talk about Jennie, he talked highly about her. In a sense she was his angel, so throughout the movie Forrest Gump Glorifies Jennie, even though she was not always an angel. Forrest then grows up with Jennie being great friends with her. One day while walking home, he was getting chased by bullies, so he tried to go as fast as he can with those leg braces on. Then suddenly they broke and he ran so fast. So everywhere that Forrest went, he got there running. He never let the teasing be a psychological deviance to his life. It only made him a stronger person.
Forrest had many great friends that really looked past his problems, and looked into his heart. A character called Bubba was also an important factor in his life. Bubba just met Forrest, and considered him a great friend. This friendship meant a lot to Forrest because Forrest really doesnt have a lot of people in his life. It was an everlasting bond between them, that Forrest felt was unbreakable, until the death of Bubba during the war. Even with the death of his great friend, instead of feeling horribly devastated, Forrest felt determined to get into the shrimp business, and make Bubbas dream come true. So when the movie goes on, it shows how successful the shrimp business went, and how just making Bubbas dream come true was more psychologically meaningful then the money he made on the business. His mother was also a great influence in his life, because she was always making sacrifices for Forrest to grow up being a great man, and she always was loving toward him, and gave him great support and motivation to be the great man that he turned out to be.
Forrest then starts talking about his adulthood. Once that Forrest was seen running, he got a full scholarship to college to play football. Once he graduated from college, he joined the army. There he met friends, and saved lives. There in the army, Forrest learned how to play ping pong, then became the top ping pong player in the United States.