Forrest Gump

Romantic

Journey with Jenny

Drama

Vietnam War, deaths of his mom and Jenny

Comedy

Forrest himself

Braces on his legs

Crooked back

IQ of 75

Devoted

Loved ones

Duties

USA in the 1950s

George Wallace

Gump is present when Stands in the doorway of the University of Alabama in order to stop black students from attending.

John F. Kennedy

During his beginning at All America Stars.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He delivers to Gump the Medal of Honor.

Nixon

Gump exposes the Watergate scandal.

Inspires Elvis Presley

Writes John Lennon's famous line "it's easy if you try."

Vietnam War

Greenbow, Alabama

Feather

In the beginning of the movie, it rests in Forrest's
suitcase, at the end it flies back up to the air.

Symbolises a cycle

the cycle of life and death,
and one of new beginnings.

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

Represents Forrest's view of life

there's no big destiny endgame we're all trying to achieve, there's just a random series of events knocking us about.

Words of Mrs. Gump: "Life is like a floating feather.
You never know where it's going to end up."

Jenny's song: the answer to all of life's big
questions is just "blowin' in the wind."

Fate and Destiny

Box of Chocolates

Forrest's favorite phrase: "My momma always said
life was like a box of chocolates. You never know
what you're going to get."

Guiding philosophy

Makes him resilient

Makes possible to see
how Forrest really is

He's not one for complex meditations
on life and chance and fate.

Represents chances

Words of Mrs. Gump:
"we never know what's coming for us"

Leg Braces

"I can run like the wind blows."

Symbolises his ability to triumph

Forrest running away from bullies one day,
his braces break away from his legs.

Represents that weaknesses can
become strengths

Forrest broke through any disadvantages
he might have been born with.

Running

Forrest and Jenny are constantly running away
from their limitations.

Forrest

Ability to triumph

Jenny

She can't escape from the despair.

Call to Adventure

In high school, he managed
to get rid of the braces.

Being so fast on his feet, he
earned a football scholarship
in the University of Alabama.

Becomes an All America player.

Meets John F. Kennedy

After university, he enlists in the Army
and participates in the Vietnam War

Meets his best friend, Bubba,
but he dies during the war.

Promised to own a shrimping boat

Mentors

Childhood

Mother

He took care of him during his childhood

Adult

Lt. Dan

Leader at the Army

Crossing the Threshold

After he gets wounded during the war, he
recieves a Congressional Medal of Honor.

Instead of fighting again, he promoted the
Army with his ping-pong skills: "Be All You Can Be"

Dischargement of the Army

He earns a a huge payout from a
ping-pong endorsement deal

Buys a shrimping boat in
memory of Bubba.

Tests, Allies, Enemies

At first, things are not well because he
doesn't have the skill of catching shrimp

Lt. Dan arrives, becomes his newfound ally
and the product began to appear.

Hurricaine Carmen

Both survived

The boat was the only undamaged in the region.

Became rich with the business
of the shrimp.

Taking care

Healing Lt. Dan wounded psyche.

His mother after taking care of him.

Inmost Cave

Mrs. Gump dies of cancer

Jenny shows up
(childhood friend and forever love)

Forrest asks to marry her

She denies and goes away.

Ordeal

Start running for the next 3 years
across USA.

Became the inspiration of millions
to pursue their dreams.

The Road Back

Finishes his journey of running.

Returns to Jenny

She presents, both Forrest and Jenny's son,
to Forrest, Forrest Jr.

Jenny finally accepts Forrest's
proposal to marry him.

Resurrection

Both returned to Greenbow, Alabama, with
their son, to get married and to live there.

Jenny dies from an unnamed disease.

Forrest was just happy that
he got to be her husband.

Now, Forrest focused to raise his son.

Return with the Elixir

Forrest sends off Forrest, Jr to
his first day of school.

Forrest Jr. goes through the same exchange with his bus driver that Forrest Sr. did when he was just a boy.

Before he heads off, he and his dad tell
each other that they love each other and
gives him the book with the feather on it.

The feather flew away with the wind.

Forrest Jr., redeemed both of his parents

He has the love Jenny never had.

The intelligence and wealth that Forrest never did.