Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump

Journey

Return with the Elixir

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

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.

Forrest Jr., redeemed both of his parents

The intelligence and wealth that Forrest never did.

He has the love Jenny never had.

The feather flew away with the wind.

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

Resurrection

Now, Forrest focused to raise his son.

Jenny dies from an unnamed disease.

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

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

The Road Back

Returns to Jenny

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

Jenny finally accepts Forrest's proposal to marry him.

Finishes his journey of running.

Ordeal

Start running for the next 3 years across USA.

Became the inspiration of millions to pursue their dreams.

Inmost Cave

Jenny shows up (childhood friend and forever love)

Forrest asks to marry her

She denies and goes away.

Mrs. Gump dies of cancer

Tests, Allies, Enemies

Taking care

His mother after taking care of him.

Healing Lt. Dan wounded psyche.

Hurricaine Carmen

The boat was the only undamaged in the region.

Became rich with the business of the shrimp.

Both survived

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.

Crossing the Threshold

Dischargement of the Army

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

Buys a shrimping boat in memory of Bubba.

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

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

Mentors

Adult

Lt. Dan

Leader at the Army

Childhood

Mother

He took care of him during his childhood

Call to Adventure

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

Meets John F. Kennedy

Becomes an All America player.

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

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

Symbols

Running

Forrest and Jenny are constantly running away from their limitations.

Jenny

She can't escape from the despair.

Forrest

Ability to triumph

Leg Braces

"I can run like the wind blows."

Represents that weaknesses can become strengths

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

Symbolises his ability to triumph

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

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."

Represents chances

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

Makes possible to see how Forrest really is

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

Guiding philosophy

Makes him resilient

Feather

Fate and Destiny

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

Represents Forrest's view of life

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

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

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

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.

Setting

Greenbow, Alabama

Vietnam War

USA in the 1950s

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

Inspires Elvis Presley

Nixon

Gump exposes the Watergate scandal.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He delivers to Gump the Medal of Honor.

John F. Kennedy

During his beginning at All America Stars.

George Wallace

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

Character Description

Devoted

Duties

Loved ones

IQ of 75

Braces on his legs

Crooked back

Genre

Comedy

Forrest himself

Drama

Vietnam War, deaths of his mom and Jenny

Romantic

Journey with Jenny