Forrest is able to let Jenny go, knowing that his son will always be taken care of by loving parents, and that he can afford to pay for anything the child will need. His son is a brilliant student and a kind child. And although he does not have Jenny as a partner, he learns that she bore him a son after leaving him, naming the baby Forrest. Once he has her, Forrest experiences a shift of his own: he begins to take her for granted and eventually loses her when he will not abandon a career path (professional wrestling) she deems unworthy of him.Īt the novel’s end, Forrest has attained earthly riches and a powerful reputation. Jenny is always kind to him, but as she grows and sees what a kind, generous, and talented person Forrest is, she genuinely falls in love with him. The sequence of events and adventures is less important than his relationship with Jenny Curran, his love interest from elementary school onward.
He is the key to solving many problems previously thought unsolvable, a fact that takes him into outer space, lands him at the mercy of a cannibal tribe, meeting several Presidents, winning the National Medal of Honor in Vietnam, and even results in him nearly achieving the status of United States Senator.
As the novel progresses, Forrest attains prodigy status in advanced mathematics, ping pong, chess, music, wrestling, football, and even political acumen. It is revealed that he is not only intelligent in some specialized ways, he is operating at the level of genius. Once he leaves childhood behind, he is constantly finding himself in the right place at the right time. It is unclear exactly what his disability is, as his IQ-and his own constant insistence that he is an idiot-is the only metric by which intelligence is discussed.įorrest’s limitations do not stop him from having a life so adventurous that is verges on cartoonishness. The book is written in an odd, colloquial style meant to mimic the phonetics of Forrest’s Southern accent and slow style of thinking. He announces straightaway that he is an “idiot” with an IQ of 70. While there is much on-target humor here, Groom, author of Better Times Than These, has written better books than this.Forrest Gump is the first person narrator of the novel. All this takes place after Gump has met Lyndon Johnson and saved Chairman Mao from drowning, which is to say that this is a very broad satire. Instead, he is a mathematical idiot savant, capable of outperforming NASA's on-board computers, which is why Gump ends up on a space mission with an ape and the first woman astronauta mission that ends in the forests of New Guinea where Gump meets a Yale-tutored cannibal. Like most literary idiots, Forrest Gump is a lot smarter than the people he encounters. At 66', 240 pounds, Forrest Gump is a difficult man to ignore, so follow Forrest from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to the Vietnam War, from encounters with. Its Forrest Gump as youve never seen him before, but just as lovable as ever. Groom's picaresque tale is told by an idiot, the Gump of the title, and follows his outrageous life from early stardom for Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide, through a tour in Vietnam and across the broad canvas of America during the '70s and '80s. Discover the bestselling novel that inspired the classic Oscar-winning film. There is a joyously madcap feeling to the first half of this unusual novel, but then the absurdity gathers its own speed and begins to run dangerously amok.
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