Forrest Gump

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• Leerjaar 4

Seperate but equal

1954 

Governor of Alabama: George Wallace

“segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

1963 –    a federal district judge ordered the university of Alabama to accept Vivian Malone and James Hood

Forrest meets three presidents :

John F. Kennedy – all American football team

Lyndon B. Johnson – medal of honor

Richard Nixon – pingpong skills

Viet Cong – south Vietnamese communist front guerilla war

Viet Cong – VC – Victor Charlie – Charlie

Forrest : We were always looking for this guy named Charlie

The USA used napalm

Sticky fire

Veterans develop health issues

Lieutenant Dan’s wish to die

Forrest shot in the buttock

Civil rights movement rise of black power

black panthers

Equality in education, housing, employment and civil rights

John Lennon

protest song

Ping pong diplomacy

Exchange of table tennis players between the US and the people’s republic of China

Result : Nixon visited Beijing

Watergate scandal : Republicans  break in Watergate Hotel - head quarters democratic party

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vietnam war

napalm 

Hurricane

Carmen

Watergate 

scandal

stand in the

schoolhouse

door

moonlanding shown on TV

Pingpong diplomacy

JFK shot

 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.

symbols

•  feather 
  
• box of chocolates
  
• leg braces
  
• running
  

the feather

 As Mrs. Gump would say, "Life is like a floating feather. You never know where it's going to end up." 

That dancing feather has no clear destiny, no point where it's supposed to end up. It just is. 

Forrest says : "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze."

this phrase gives us a  more evidence that the movie is coming down on the side of chance rather than destiny.

Mrs. Gump says that we never know what's coming for us; and we never know whether we'll end up dying as millionaires or destitute.

leg braces

The leg braces are an symbol of Forrest overcoming a weakness and turning it into a strength, just like he does with his intelligence

running

* Forrest runs away from  bullies. 

* Jenny runs away from her father. 

* Forrest runs toward Jenny

* Forrest runs away from battle

* Forrest runs across the USA

* Forrest runs through the football field 

* Jenny  runs away from her  past

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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

Whose cynicism is contrasted with Forrest's optimism?

1. Mrs. Gump's
2. Jenny's
3. Lt. Dan's
4. Bubba's

What does Forrest do after he makes a ton of money shrimping?

1. He goes home
2. He goes to Vietnam
3. He goes to Korea
4. He learns to play the guitar

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