A Feather Symbolize to Forrest’s Life

A feather symbolize to Forrest’s life From the film ‘Forrest Gump’ which created by Winston Groom and directed by Robert Zemeckis, The film has focused on his main character ‘Forrest Gump’ played by Tom Hanks. It can state that ‘Forrest’s Life imply to a feather’, because there are factors which can make him do a great success that is hard for everyone can reach it. And these factors is his basic character, his social surroundings and his lifestyle. At the first factor, his characteristics make him imply to a feather that carried by wind, it is symbolize that a man who let himself flow by his destiny. Forrest Gump is a moronic man who has a low brain’s development or mental age as we can see in the scene that his mother is convinced by headmaster, even she didn’t accept it. Forrest lacks thinking procession. Sometime he does something without thinking or done something automatically, he has no reason to support his operation that he does it for what. These symptoms have appear in the scene of movie. For example, the scene that Jenny has sneaks away from Forrest. Then Forrest has begun to run, without a destination. He answer interviewers’ questions that he just want to run, not for any advantage .When Forrest stop running , he just tell his companies that he was so tired and wants to go home. Forrest accept everything which is come to his life ,even he does not appreciate it. By the way, Forrest always makes the best of everything, For example, he can run as fast as he can. Forrest get recruited to be a military in Vietnam war, He make a great success to army, and get a reward ‘Medal of honor’ from President. He can be a great shrimp captain and get a lot of money. He loves only one woman ‘Jenny’ and never change his mind even Jenny often not accepted him. He has responsibility in his duty as the scene he was a military and rescue others when they are attacked. He is true to his word. As the scene the he promised with Bubba to take a shrimp captain after war.