Forrest Gump hoofdpersonen + war

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo
• Leerjaar 4

 a "gump" is "a foolish or stupid person," 

"Forrest" apparently comes from Nathan Bedford Forrest, the guy who founded the Ku Klux Klan.

What's up with the title?

"Momma said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.

Greenbow Alabama

every place important in American history since 1950

Forrest is traveling around the world (China, Vietnam, New York City, Washington, D.C.) 

Setting

Main characters

Forrest Gump

Mrs Gump

Forrest Gump Jr

Lieutenant Dan

Bubba

Jenny

Forrest

• tiny IQ
  
• momma's boy
  
• innocent
  
• war hero  
  
• shrimping genius
  
• ping-pong whiz
  

Forrest

He's a lover, a fighter, a football star, and a multimillionaire. In other words, he just might be the perfect all-American man

Jenny

• molested by her father
  
• wants to become a bird and run away
• keeps running her entire life

poor Jenny just makes one bad decision after another: posing nude, then singing nude, then dating an abusive guy, then boarding a hippie bus to California (like that's going to end well), then getting involved in a gross '70s drug scene—it's just a sad litany of What Not to Do

Mrs Gump

Mrs. Gump's main character trait is a deep love for her son, leg braces, IQ of 75, and all. She dedicates herself to giving him a normal life and convincing him that he's just as good as everyone else.

My momma always said: ...........

• Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get 
  
• Stupid is as stupid does
  
• You can tell a lot about a person by his shoes. 
  

Bubba

• not too bright
  
• likes to talk about himself and tell stories from his life
  
•  friendly, family oriented and just wants to make people happy
  

He tells Forrest his name and his entire family story,  saying he's a shrimp fisherman at heart and he knows "everything there is to know about the shrimping business." 

He then goes on to list just about every type of way there is to prepare shrimp, ending with, "shrimp salad, shrimp in potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That's about it.

Lieutenant Dan

• Somebody in his family had fought and died in every single American war.
  
• Believes he's destined to die on the battlefield
  
• Instead of dying a hero, he ends up a wheelchair-bound cripple
  

by taking action for once rather than bemoaning his loss of destiny—Lt. Dan actually writes himself into a pretty sweet future as the part-owner of a multimillion-dollar shrimping company, a savvy early investor in Apple, the owner of a fancy pair of prosthetic legs, and, of course, a man with a hot fiancée.

Forrest Gump Jr

Once Jenny dies, Forrest takes on the role of being Forrest Jr.'s only parent. On his first day of school, we see the boy go through the same routine that Forrest did. The last thing Forrest tells his son in the movie is that he loves him, to which Forrest Jr. answers, "I love you, too, Daddy."

Looks like they're going to do just fine together.

runs from coast to coast

marries the love of his life

part of the all american football team

invents the smiley

gets rich by investing in a fruit

company

Teaches Elvis how to dance

gets a sponsordeal

playing pingpong

becomes a father

saves the man in his platoon

John Lennon

protest song