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Forrest Gump

Fictional biography
“Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they says folks sposed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you-it ain’t always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, cause I reckon I done live a pretty interestin life, so to speak.” Throughout the book, Forrest is always trying to do what is right, but it never seems to turn out for him. For instance, he tries to participate in a big demonstration against the Vietnam War at the U.S. Capitol “at which a bunch of Vietnam veterans is gonna take off they medals an thow them on the steps of the Capitol.” When it becomes his turn, he throws his ...

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When he was about sixteen, a guy stopped him on his way home from “nut school” and asked him why he had not seen him around before. The next week, he was taken out of that school and placed in a public high school so he could play football. He was six foot six and weighed 245 pounds. Forrest led his team to a state championship and made the All State Football team. In addition, Forrest always says, “I got to pee.” whenever he is in front of an audience such as at the All State banquet and in front of the President when he accepts his Congressional Medal of Honor. During his last year of high school, he was drafted into the Army. He was temporarily deferred after the physical examination because they found out that he was a moron. He goes on to play football at the University of Alabama, but he flunks out after a year. College is where he met up with Bubba and later meets up with him again when he is in the Vietnam War. Bubba, who dies in the war, teaches him to play the ...

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Added: 9/15/2007 01:15:40 AM
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