How Stupid Is Forrest Gump My Hero?

The film, Forrest Gump, is a romantic drama riddled with comedy. The plotline follows Forrest Gump and his childhood love Jenny. Although they live separate lives, their paths continually cross over time. Forrest, the main character, is a young man who has a low IQ. Despite this obstacle, he manages to excel in life and even grasp the meaning of love. He is quite naïve, but still lovable. Although he faces many difficult circumstances throughout his life, these challenges are matched with success and joys. Audiences find the film one full of spectacular special effects and heartwarming scenes. The novel, however, has a different plot line and falls into a completely different genre.

An Epic is defined as a long poem, typically derivative of ancient traditionally orally related tales that narrated the feats and adventures of heroic or often legendary figures, or the gallant history of a nation. I believe Forrest Gump is very much an epic. When a story transcends multiple lifetimes and incorporates many events across generational lines, it may be then considered epic. Forrest Gump, a tale about a man of slight mind but significant heart who originates from deficiency to become an American Hero leading one simple life leading to an adventure after another.

Forrest Gump is a movie that follows a man throughout the story of his life. It starts out with Forrest Gump waiting at a bus stop when the bus arrives and a woman steps out and sits down next to him. He begins to talk to her and he offers her some chocolate. The way he talks hints to the fact that he is not the most intelligent person. He then starts to talk about her shoes which leads him to a flashback of his childhood in Greenbow, Alabama in about 1945. From there he starts to talk about everything that has happened in his life that has led him to where he is now. He talks about meeting Jenny on his first day of school, his running getting him a football scholarship for college, enlisting in the army and meeting Bubba, getting a medal of honor, and playing ping pong against China.

Jenny and Forrest decided to get married and this brought great happiness to them both. After being married for a short time, Jenny passed away from a terminal illness. “Gump’s mother (Sally Field) believes that "you make your own destiny. “You have to do the best with what God gave you." (Chumo II). Throughout his life Forrest thought this statement was true until he went through the loss of his wife, Jenny that he loved so much. His thoughts were “I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around acci-dental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time” (Chumo II). Going through this loss was hard for him but he was happy to have Forrest Jr. to protect and take care of. Forrest showed us that true love and happiness can exist no matter what road life takes us down.

He won the presidential election without any support from a southern state; unlike Bedford Forrest, he naturally favored by the Confederate side in the war because he is the only enlisted man to raise the rank of lieutenant general in the South, Bedford Forrest is a self-made man. Forrest made a fortune as a slave trader, planter, and a speculator. Forrest moved to Memphis Delta and started his business of dealing cotton, lands and slave which help him to become a millionaire. Since slavery is part of his financial benefit, Forrest wanted to keep slavery for his

debate Forrest as he lived, I do intend to analyse how Forrest has been canonized at MTSU. To

Forrest showed bravery in the battles that he fought in as a lieut. gGeneral in the Civil War. Forrest even unknowingly single handedly charged a Union brigade and was shot in the spine while stabbing Union soldiers with his saber. The last characteristic is show when Forrest forrest committed a horrible war crime against black prisoners of war at the massacre of Fort Pillow. Forrest did not continue to promote violence when he called for the end of the Klu Klux Klan when the Klan changed from a fraternity to a criminal terror organization. Forrest was a racist and a war criminal but his ideas of courage and his grace in defeat are shown in the first part of his speech to his men after the loss of the Civil War.

On the contrary, Nathan Bed Forrest started his humble background with a low-income family which is carried by him at the age of seventeen. After joining the business with his uncle, Forrest becomes one of the richest people in the South as the businessman. During the Civil War, Forrest offered to buy new equipment and horses for the Confederate army. With that generousness, he was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel, even though, Nathan did not have any military’s training, he still did an outstanding job with smart strategies and talented skills. With a lot of merits from the wars such as the victories in the Battle of Sacramento, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Fallen Timbers, Nathan Bed Forrest become the real genius of the Southerners, and step by step, lieutenant general of the Confederate Army comes to him as a reward for being a genius. All of his actions were supported by his basic idea about the slavery. He was a slave trader who owns more than 200 slaves. Therefore, it is one of the reasons for him to fight the Union. Furthermore, Nathan Bedford Forrest joined the Ku Klux Klan as the Grand Wizard; this is the evidence that proves Nathan support for the slavery. One of the actions that make Nathan Bedford Forrest became a real hero for the South, but the biggest trouble for the North

Forrest and Jenny meet on the school bus on the first day of school. They become best friends at school and throughout their whole childhood. Jenny used to try and protect Forrest and stand up for him because he

However, his mother never gave up and was determined to enroll him in a school for normal kids. Forrest never forgot his mother’s words to him when asked if he was stupid; he consistently replied “mama says stupid is as stupid does”. Forrest most conflicting scenes were with jenny because he was not sure if to love her or how to love her but he was sure of they were very good friends. Forrest always felt he had to protect jenny from harm and once, he beat up jenny’s boyfriend because he did not understand situation. Narrative coherence is evident in the way Forrest narrated his story of how loyal and passionate he was to jenny, especially when jenny asked him to always run away from danger and bullies which landed him a scholarship from high school through college where he played soccer in the school’s team. Forrest joined the army after graduation while jenny was suspended from school due to her wild life. While in the military, Forrest was deployed to join the war in Vietnam where he met another good friend, Bubba who was very passionate and knowledgeable about shrimps. Bubba and Forrest agreed to start shrimp business their service but Bubba never made it alive from the Vietnam war due to an ambush of their squad which almost wiped out every soldier of the squad but for the heroic and running ability of Forrest Gump, who was able to carry some of the soldiers out of harm’s

“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” Forrest Gump is the portrayal of a man that has been alienated from society, not because he is unintelligent or dimwitted, but rather because he is not restricted by the conventional ideals, which are embedded, within his culture; thus, Forrest challenges the conformities and principals that most people are accustomed to. The contrast that Robert Zemeckis, director of the film, is attempting to convey through the character of Forrest Gump is how most people are too smart for there own good; and thus, try to escape the realities and actualities of life. While other characters in the story are suppressed by society’s conflicts, Forrest remains blinded to all; hence, he is able to live in the moment, rather than evading what is real. Forrest’s unique selflessness and compelled nature to do what is right, as opposed to what is easy, are what our society incorrectly labels stupidity or ignorance. Zemeckis is obviously pointing out that an individual has no control over his or her own destiny and in order to live a noble life, must accept life as it is.

(a) Do you think Forrest Gump is an idiot? If yes/no, why? I think Forrest Gump is no an idiot because Forrest can do many things as a normal thing. For example, Forrest can take care himself just like a normal people. Then, Forrest can learn a thing very fast.

The determination isn’t whether Forrest Gump breached his contract by failing to meet his promise but the decision on the validity of the liquidated damage clause. The Alabama Sports Marketing company believes that if the offeree, Forrest Gump, breaches his contract he is responsible for paying the company $2 million.

I do not think that Forrest Gump is an idiot. This is because he could think something different than others and he always did something that other people could not do. First thing first, he has a simple but powerful mind that just want to take good care of Jenny Curran all the time than anything else. He has no guile and always be truthful to everyone around him where we gets to know that he took care of Jenny no matter where she is and whatever requested by Jenny as well as people bullied him all times but he refused to revenge to the people. Other than that, he sees the world without shades of grey as he has a simple mind. Whatever matters come to him, he

Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis is a six Academy Awards winner (1995) love-or-hate story of a journey through life of a simple man. Gump (Tom Hanks), continually finds himself in the middle of important events from the late 50's through the 70's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK and Richard Nixon. Without effort of his own he is a witness of almost all major historical moments in the United Stated, however he takes part in them without understanding what he does and sees. It is worth noticing that Gump is not an ordinary character. He is a young Alabaman of slight intelligence who lives by the rules that was drilled into him by his mama (Sally Field). Even though Forrest has an IQ of only 75 and his early life was