Forrest Gump: boganmeldelse og handlingsresumé

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Author: Winston Groom

Type of book: Telling about Forrest Gumps life story.

Setting of book: ca. 1950 to 1980

Main character:

Forrest Gump is played by Tom Hanks. In this story Forrest is telling us about his whole k live.

Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs and meeting the president several times. How ever this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny.

Summary of plot:

The dad of Forrest Gump died just after he was born and his mother didn’t want him to play with the other kids when Forrest was growing up, because they always hit him. First Forrest went to an ordinary school where he met Jenny Curran, a nice girl. Then he got into an new school, but one day a man come and took the boy with him to play football in a team. In the new school he met Jenny again.