Forrest Gump Summary

Forrest Gump Summary
Forrest Gump is a movie with a boy who is special. Forrest Gump had a best friend named Jenny, he loved her. Forrest also loved running, when he was running from boys who were throwing rocks at him and he had leg splints they ended up braking off while he was running and he kept running. Forrest was so good at running he was on a football team in college. After college he signed up for the Army, in the Army boot camp he was the best and fastest at loading his gun. He meet his best friend and they called him “Baba”. Forrest and Baba were planning to open a shrimp business, and they would catch shrimp. Baba’s family had shrimp businesses. In the war Forrest ran from the bombing and was safe. He kept running back in getting the wounded soldiers and running with them and laying them down somewhere safe. He couldn’t find his best friend Baba; he kept running back into the war to find him. He soon enough found him but Baba was very badly wounded. Forrest picked him up and ran back to the others and as they got there Forrest held him and Baba died in his arms. Forrest got shot in the buttocks. After Forrest got out of the Army he came home and then got tons of money. He wasn’t home for long and left to make the shrimp business that he promised Baba. He gave Baba’s family money and he bought a boat, he named his boat Jenny after his girl best friend. While shrimping he reseeded a phone call saying his mother was very ill. He went home right away and his mother told him she was dying. After his mother died he stayed home and took care of the house, not too long after Jenny showed up at his house. They ended up having sex and then the next morning she left. Forrest ended up running and running, all over the country. He has people joining him but one day he just got tired of running and said “I want to go home” so that’s just what he did. Jenny ended up getting pregnant. Jenny sent Forrest a letter about him coming to see her at her apartment. Forrest