Shrimp can represent a normal working class life, which is essentially what Forrest really wanted all along. The shrimp business is so simple, and brought Forrest wealth that he got to share with his loved ones. He continuously practiced while he was at the hospital in the war and became so skilled at ping pong he was asked to join the All-American pingpong team to travel to China. Running : Common theme throughout the novel and movie.
Forrest: Runs towards Jenny every time he sees her, runs from teenagers with their bikes, football, running away from the cannibal tribe novel , running in the war to save lieutenant Dan movie , running at the end of the movie to get his mind off Jenny.
At the start of the book he runs away from all of his problems, but at the end when he decides to finally stop running and confront his problems he walks home. Jenny: Running away from her father in the cornfield. Continuously runs away from Forrest within the book and movie, examples are her running from Forrest outside the strip club movie , her running away from him at the movie theater novel , at the end of the novel when she runs away from him for wrestling.
You are commenting using your WordPress. A lot of what happens is up to chance — for good and for bad. Forrest has a dramatic life: after the tragedies of his childhood and the traumatic experience of the Vietnam War , he becomes a ping pong champion for the US Army, a millionaire thanks to the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company and investing money in Apple computers, a cross-country running celebrity, saves a slew of lives overseas, and more.
Despite floating through life and winging it without a set plan, he builds an impressive life for himself, selflessly helping countless others along the way. Forrest Gump hints that its titular character's willingness to accept life as it happens — as well as his good-natured attitude toward others — is why he is ultimately successful.
Forrest Gump also shows life's unfairness, indicating that the way the wind blows isn't easily predicted or favorable. Jenny, despite her innate goodness, lives a troubled life from the very beginning, and, once she dies a shockingly young death after a tragic life, it feels as though she never truly had a chance in the first place. In the case of Forrest Gump , the feather symbolizes all of these things. They are all the methods by which Gump navigates his life, which give him grand opportunities, and which transform what could have been a passive existence for a slow-minded individual into a magnificent and rich history.
Maybe both is happening at the same time. When Forrest enters your life, the purity in him helps ease your pain and fix your problems. Even with all that evidence, the core of Forrest Gump is the saying he and his mother repeated over and over again. That means both of them are led to believe that life is delivered at random. You make choices, but you have no idea what those choices will reap. Even the feather reflects that.
It's a feather brushed away by everyone except Gump. Is that inanimate object predestined? No, it's just a thing blowing around at random.
That means Gump also houses itself in the randomness of the world. Sometimes the wind blows you around and no one reacts. Sometimes they do. The times they do become part of your story. Narratively, we see those elements in Forrest Gump , but that's only because movies need things to happen. What makes Gump so special is that the movie doesn't push one version of reality.
It lets you reflect on your own.
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