Dan sells off his share of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company and the company eventually goes under. In 1980, the shrimp market has exploded, and Forrest cannot keep up with the demand. The story suggests that the real-life events surrounding the film have affected Forrest's life. However, the character is not an idiot savant, as in the first book, but more similar to Tom Hanks' "warmhearted dope." The text intentionally contains grammar and spelling mistakes in order to indicate the character's deficient education and cognitive difficulties, albeit less frequently than its predecessor, reflecting that Forrest is a more mature and somewhat more astute man.
#FORREST GUMP GROOM MOVIE#
On the first page, Forrest Gump tells readers "Don't ever let nobody make a movie of your life's story," and "Whether they get it right or wrong, it don't matter." It was written to chronicle Forrest's life throughout the 1980s. It is the sequel to his 1986 novel Forrest Gump and the Academy Award-winning 1994 film of the same name starring Tom Hanks. (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom. Forrest is able to let Jenny go, knowing that his son will always be taken care of by loving parents, and that he can afford to pay for anything the child will need.Gump & Co. His son is a brilliant student and a kind child. And although he does not have Jenny as a partner, he learns that she bore him a son after leaving him, naming the baby Forrest. Once he has her, Forrest experiences a shift of his own: he begins to take her for granted and eventually loses her when he will not abandon a career path (professional wrestling) she deems unworthy of him.Īt the novel’s end, Forrest has attained earthly riches and a powerful reputation. Jenny is always kind to him, but as she grows and sees what a kind, generous, and talented person Forrest is, she genuinely falls in love with him.
The sequence of events and adventures is less important than his relationship with Jenny Curran, his love interest from elementary school onward. He is the key to solving many problems previously thought unsolvable, a fact that takes him into outer space, lands him at the mercy of a cannibal tribe, meeting several Presidents, winning the National Medal of Honor in Vietnam, and even results in him nearly achieving the status of United States Senator. As the novel progresses, Forrest attains prodigy status in advanced mathematics, ping pong, chess, music, wrestling, football, and even political acumen.
It is revealed that he is not only intelligent in some specialized ways, he is operating at the level of genius. Once he leaves childhood behind, he is constantly finding himself in the right place at the right time. It is unclear exactly what his disability is, as his IQ-and his own constant insistence that he is an idiot-is the only metric by which intelligence is discussed.įorrest’s limitations do not stop him from having a life so adventurous that is verges on cartoonishness.
The book is written in an odd, colloquial style meant to mimic the phonetics of Forrest’s Southern accent and slow style of thinking.
He announces straightaway that he is an “idiot” with an IQ of 70. Forrest Gump is the first person narrator of the novel.
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