Summary of Forrest Gump

The movie Forrest Gump is about a man called Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump had low IQ and brace legs, but Forrest Gump had talent in running so he became an American football star. He then met a general and the general tried to recruit him to join the military. Forrest Gump agreed onto it and met a man called Bubba. Bubba would always talk about shrimps and they became good friends.  Then they got the message to go in the war in Vietnam.

It was a rainy day in Vietnam while all the soldiers were walking, then the rain stopped and the Vietnam soldiers started to shoot at them. Most of the USA army got shot and died, but Forrest was brave and tried to save them all. Bubba was unlucky that he died while Forrest was trying to save him. There was one guy called Lt. Dan that refused to be saved by Forrest. He said that his ancestors were soldiers and like them his destiny to die in a war, but Forrest refused that fact and still carried him to save him.

After the war Forrest went back to the military and received an award for being a hero (Saving many people). Forrest was addicted to play ping pong so he visited the president to show his skills and after that went to China to play, so lucky that he even won the championship.

Forrest went back again to military to see what’s going on and was all surprised after he received  a message that he could return home. Gump visited his parents and Bubba’s relatives and gave them money.

He bought a shrimp boat and became the captain of it. He recruited Lt. Dan to be the vice-captain of the ship and so their journey began to become rich.

Gump’s mother became sick and died in a few months. Forrest would always dream about a certain girl. That girl was standing there, in front of his house.

The girl which was called Jenny and Forrest had a good time together until they slept together. Next morning Jenny knew she was pregnant so she ran away from Gump. Forrest was sad and started to look for her around the house.

Forrest Gump started running for a long time, long enough for him to grow a beard. He doesn’t know why he started running until he realizes he couldn’t find the reason why so he head back home. After going home Forrest received a letter from Jenny that he should pay a visit on her on an apartment, there he met his son. His son was named after him ‘’Forrest’’. Gump was so happy to know that he had a child with Jenny, but Gump didn’t know that Jenny had an HIV and then AIDS. Aids is incurable, but it still doesn’t  mean that once you get that infection you would die in the first day. Jenny had some time to live, but she is destined to die someday. Jenny started to get worse in a few weeks. She wouldn’t tell Gump what kind of sickness she had because she knew that Gump would be sad. Gump knew that she would die and so there she was lying on the bed not breathing. Although Jenny was dead, Gump and Forrest still lived happily. Forrest which is his son would always go to the school every day and Gump would teach him new things once he comes back from school.