Forrest Gump door Winston Groom

Chapter 1

Forrest was born an idiot, he said, but he’s cleverer than people think.
After Forrest was born his daddy died. When Forrest grew up he played with everybody but after a while the boys hit him and the girls ran away from him.
One girl, Jenny Curran didn’t run away for him.
Then they put Forrest into another kind of school with people who couldn’t eat or drink without help. He stayed there for five or six years.
One day when Forrest was walking home, a car stopped next to him and a man asked where Forrest went to school and if Forrest ever plays football. Forrest told him he didn’t.
Three days later that man was at Forrest’s school and his mom was there too, she told him to say goodbye to the teacher and she put all the things out of his desk into a paper bag.
The man in the car took Forrest and his mom to a new high school and he wanted Forrest to play football. The man in the car was a coach, named Fellers.
Forrest began to play with the high school team and coach Fellers helped him.
Then in the school café he saw Jenny Curran. She looked beautiful. He went and sat with her, and she remembered him!
Then a boy started shouting at Forrest ans throw his milk all over Forrest ans a few days later they wanted to hit him so Forrest start to ran and coach Fellers saw Forrest running and wanted Forrest to run with the ball. Forrest did it really well, and after that everybody liked him.
Then something happend that was not really good. He went to the cinema with Jenny, and it all went wrong and his evening ended at the police station.
The next day a letter arrived from a university. It was good news, they wanted Forrest to play in their football team. The police said: “It’s okay with us. Just get out of town!” So next morning he went.

Chapter 2

When he was at the university he learned soon. The building where Forrest has to live in was nice from the outside but not on the inside. He had to share a room with a man called Curtis. They spook just 3 sentences for several days.
On the practice field, things didn’t start very well. Forrest told coach Bryant he never learned how to catch so coach Bryant started to teach him.
Forrest helped his room-mate Curtis with his car and than they had a fight so Forrest moved his bed to another room.

The first football game was on Saturday. Forrest did very well and they won 35 to 3.
Everybody was pleased. That night everybody went to parties but nobody asked Forrest to go. Then he met Bubba, who was playing the harmonica. They spend the hole night together playing on the harmonica. Forrest did it very well and Bubba wanted Forrest to take the harmonica with him.
The next day when he was walking to his room he heard his name calling and it was Jenny Curran. She wasn’t angry about the cinema accident. Jenny told him she played in a band and asked Forrest to come and listen.

Chapter 3

On Friday night he went to the students centre. There were a lot of people and Jenny was singing. They were playing for about an hour and how it happened, Forrest wasn’t sure, but suddenly he found himself playing his harmonica with them. Everybody loved it. After that Jenny asked him to play with their group every Friday, and it paid him $25 every time!

The only other important thing that happened was the big game that year. But the other team won with 28 to 24 so they were the losers. Coach Bryant said to his boys that there is always a next year is. But Forrest knew not for him.

Forrest couldn’t stay at the university because he wasn’t clever enough. Coach Bryant told him they had the best year.
Bubba helped Forrest to put his things into the suitcase. Forrest couldn’t say goodbye to Jenny because it wasn’t Friday night so she wasn’t playing. He left to Mobile, where he lived with his mom. At home his mother was crying. When Forrest asked her what’s wrong she told him she got a letter and Forrest had to go into the army.

Chapter 4

After he left the idiot school people were always shouting at him, but the people in the army shout louder and longer than anybody else.
One day, the cook was ill so Forrest had to be the cook that day. He put all the food into the boiler, cause the were only small pots, and the boiler was big enough and there was hot water in it. But suddenly the boiler began to shake and than it blew up. ‘You’re an idiot’ they screamed. But Forrest already knew that.

After a year they went to Vietnam to fight in the war. One evening when they were taking a shower (which was in a kind of hole) the ground suddenly start to blow up all around them. After about two minutes everybody climbed up out of the hole. The enemy soldier tried to blow them up for the next five nights, then it stopped.
They went to the north to help the other men in the jungle.
They went by helicopter and before they were on the ground the enemy start shooting at them. It was almost night before they found the other soldiers in the jungle. One of them was Bubba! He told Forrest about himself and about Jenny Curran who left school and went off with a group of people who were against the war.

Chapter 5

Between two hills there was a valley. They were on a hill and the enemy was on the other hill. They were ordered to move up and when they were in the middle of the valley they had a safe place and then they heard that the enemy started shooting again.
They stayed there all night and in the morning their planes came and they blew up the enemy soldiers. Suddenly somebody was shooting at them. They got out fast because the enemy soldiers were in front of them. They were shooting and killed about fifteen enemy soldiers. Two of their men were dead. Only Doyle was alive and Forrest picked him up and ran towards the hill. Then Forrest saw more enemy soldiers and began to ran and shouting as loudly as he could. His shouting frightened the enemy soldiers away.

The weeks went past slowly. Bubba and Forrest decided that they would get a shrimp boat when they got home again. It started to rain that day and it didn’t stop for two months. They still had to look for enemy soldiers and one day they found them. They start shooting again. When he looked for Bubba he found him in the rice field. There was blood all over him and he died. Before he died he asked Forrest to play something on the harmonica and Forrest did.

The next day an American plane came. All of a sudden the trees were on fire. During all that, somebody shot Forrest in the back of his leg but it didn’t matter. Then their helicopters came and the enemy soldiers who were left ran away. An hour later he was on his way to the hospital.

Chapter 6

He was at the hospital for two months. After a few weeks when he could walk again he went to the little town and bought some shrimps. He asked the man who was selling the shrimps where he got them. That man took Forrest somewhere where he took a net and put it in the water and took it out again and it was full of shrimps. The next few weeks he went there every day with that man called Mr Chi and watched him while he was working. One day when he went back to the hospital,colonel Gooch said that they’re going back to America together and that Forrest was going to see the president. The president was going to give him a medal because Forrest has been very brave.

There were about two thousand people waiting for them at the airport. Forrest thought perhaps they were to welcome them but he was wrong. They were shouting unpleasant things and somebody threw a tomato at colonel Gooch and it hit him in the face. Forrest didn’t want to wait before he got a tomato in his face too so he start running and the people start running after him. Forrest ran into a toilet and locked the door. After an hour he came out again and he looked for colonel Gooch. He found him in the middle of a group of policemen. Then they went to Washington.

Next morning they got up early and went to the white house. An army man started te read something and everybody listened exept forrest, because he was so hungry and could only think about breakfast. After the army man finished the reading the president gave Forrest his medal and was shaking his hand. The president heard that Forrest stomach was making noise so they were getting something to eat. And they talked a lot together.

Chapter 7

Forrest heard that he was leaving the army early. He went back to Mobile. All the time he was still thinking about Jenny. She played with her band, The Broken Eggs, in Boston so he went to there to see her. Jenny changed a lot. He went outside and was playing his harmonica, and then Jenny came out of the door, when she saw Forrest she was surprised.

Jenny took Forrest to her home where she lived with her boyfriend. He stayed there. The next day Forrest played with The Broken Eggs on his harmonica. One day when he came home Jenny was sitting on the floor, her boyfriend left her. Forrest put his arms around her, and then they started kissing and making love.

Chapter 8

Spring and summer went away and it was the best time of Forrest's life. Then something went wrong again. One day when he was outside smoking a cigarette a strange girl came and started to kiss him. Jenny saw it and she was really angry. Forrest had to live somewhere else and after a while he followed Jenny to Washington. There they talked a lot. Then she told her friends who were against the war just like Jenny that Forrest won a medal.

The next day Forrest had to throw his medal away to stop the fighting in Vietnam. But it hit somebody very important so he went to prison.

But he didn’t stay there for long because they put him into a hospital for idiots. And there they decided to send him to a space centre in Houston. Then they sent Forrest into space with a woman and an ape. The space ship came down into the jungle somewhere and took four years before the NASA found them. Forrest and the ape called Sue were very good friends. He also met a man, called Big Sam, who taught him to play chess.

Chapter 9

The first thing that Forrest wanted to do when he was back in America was find Jenny. And he found her. She worked and lived in Indianapolis. After he met her again he had to wait before she finished work so he stayed in a café and won some money with arm-wrestling. He could stay with Jenny. After that day Forrest went back to that café to arm-wrestle everyday. He made a lot of money, about $200 a week. Then he met a man who taught him real wrestling and Forrest made a lot of money by winning or losing the games. Jenny wasn’t happy about the wrestling and left him, she asked him if he didn’t want to try to find her.

Chapter 10

Forrest decided to go home to Mobile and he went by bus.The bus stopped at Nashville and Forrest went into that town to eat and drink something. He walked into a hotel and there was a special chess tournament. It cost five dollars to watch so he didn’t and he walked out. Then he saw an old man playing chess against himself. Forrest missed the bus and the next one would leave the next day so Forrest went back to the old man and play chess with him, he won. The old man, called Mr. Tribble, said to Forrest that he was really good and could make a lot of money by playing chess. Two days later they were on their way to Los Angeles.

They were too early for the chess tournament. Mr. Tribble took Forrest to see how people were making a movie and someone wanted Forrest to be an actor. Then he met Seu the ape again and things went wrong so Forrest wasn’t an actor for long. Mr. Tribble was pleased about that. Forrest was pleased because he was back with Sue again.

The next day Forrest had to play the chess tournament and he won everything so he had to play in the final. He played against a Russian man, the best chess player of the world. Just when that man was going to win Sea ran across the room an jumped onto the chess table. They got out of there, shared the money and Mr. Tribble told Forrest to finally start the shrimp business. And he gave him his address to write sometimes.

Chapter 11

Forrest start his own shrimp business with help of the parents of Bubba, his own mother, Curtis, his old football friend, and Mr. Tribble. It went very well, they made a lot of money. But he was still missing Jenny so he went to Mobile to talk to her mother who told him she married two years ago. It hurt him and he needed a vacation. He didn’t know where to go so he went to Savannah together with Sue, because the woman who sold him the ticket said it was a nice town.

Chapter 12

When they arrived in Savannah Forrest he got a cup of coffee and start playing on his harmonica. Than some people threw some money into his empty cup of coffee. By the end of the next week he was getting ten dollars every day. Then one afternoon he noticed a little boy that was watching him. When he looked up he saw the woman near him. It was Jenny. While that little boy was playing with Sue, Jenny and Forrest talked an Jenny told him that the little boy was his son. He was also called Forrest. It was a clever boy. After they left, Forrest phoned to Mr. Tribble and told him to give his mother and Bubba's parents some money and send the rest to Jenny and her little Forrest.