Forrest Gump
Author: Winston Groom
I’m going to introduce about my favorite book in this term.
The name is “Forrest Gump.”
A white feather drifts down out of the sky and lands at a bus stop in Georgia. A man named Forrest Gump picks it up and places it in his copy of the children's book Curious George. He then recounts his life story to strangers who sit next to him on a bench. Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions.
In 1951 in Greenbow, Alabama, young Forrest is fitted with leg braces to correct a curved spine, and is unable to walk properly. He lives alone with his mother. On his first day of school, Forrest meets a girl named Jenny Curran, and the two become best friends. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. It is implied that Jenny's father sexually abuses her. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny.
Forrest enlists into the U.S. Army, where he befriends Bubba and Dan. They are sent to Vietnam. He wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times.
However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life. Jenny—recovering from years of drugs and abuse returns to visit Forrest, and after a while he proposes to her. That night she tells Forrest she loves him and the two make love, but she leaves the next morning. Heartbroken, Forrest goes running, and spends the next three years in a relentless cross-country marathon, becoming famous again before returning home to Greenbow.
In the present, Forrest reveals that he is waiting at the bus stop because he received a letter from Jenny, who asked him to visit her. The strangers say that the address on the letter is only a few blocks away, and Forrest immediately takes off. As Forrest is finally reunited with Jenny, she introduces him to their son, named Forrest Gump, Jr. Jenny tells Forrest she is sick with an unknown incurable virus, so Forrest has Jenny and Forrest Jr move back to Greenbow with him. Jenny and Forrest finally marry, with Lt. Dan serving as best man while wearing his new prosthetic legs. Sadly, Jenny is overcome by the virus and dies a year later. At her grave some time later, Forrest tells Jenny that he had her father's house bulldozed to the ground, and that little Forrest is doing well.
The story ends with Forrest seeing his son off on his first day of school. Forrest notices that Jr has his Curious George book, as he wants to take it to school for show-and-tell. When Forrest opens the book, the white feather from the beginning of the film falls to the ground. He waves goodbye to Forrest Jr as the school bus leaves, and then sits down on a log as the wind blows and carries the feather away into the sky. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.
This story was made into a movie starring Tom Hanks, so I think it is easy to understand the story for everyone. I like the words in this story. For example, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get”. This phrase is very famous and it was sent to Forrest from his mother. I guess everyone like this story.
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Longman
発売日 : 1999-11-01
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