AN IDIOT SUCCESS MAN - FORREST GUMP BOOK REVIEW

Title : Forrest Gump

Author : Winston Groom

Publication year : 1994

Pages : 50

One day when Curtis had to change a wheel on the car, I helped him.

‘If you’re an idiot,’ he said angrily, ‘how do you know how to do that?’

‘Maybe I am an idiot,’ I said, ‘but ‘I’m not stupid.’

I was born an idiot, but ‘I’m cleverer than most people think.

Synopis
We quickly realize this is true in this wonderfully warm and funny story about Forrest Gump, a good-hearted young man from Alabama in the USA. He wins a medal for being very brave in the Vietnam war and meets the President of the United States of America. He becomes a handballer, a film star, a businessman and he goes into space. And his best friend is an ape called Sue! Forrest Gump is now a film, with Tom Hanks and Sally Field in it. Tom Hanks won an Oscar for the film in 1994. In its first eighteen days, the film of Forrest Gump took $100 million in American cinemas — more than any other film that Paramount Pictures has made before. Forrest Gump is an unusual man who does a lot of unusual things. Millions of ordinary Americans liked the film. They felt Forrest Gump’s story was also partly a story about themselves and about America from the 1960s to today. Forrest Gump lived the ‘American Dream’. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, you can be anything you want to be. Winston Groom’s other books are Better Times Than These, about the war in Vietnam, and As Summers Die. He lives for some of the time in New York City and for the rest of the time in Clear Point, Alabama.

CHAPTER 1

 Forrest Gump was born Idiot with an IQ of 70. Forrest's father died after he was born. His father works on a ship. One day a large banana box fell over his father and killed him. Initially when he grew up, he played with everyone. But then some boys hit Forrest because of his strange body, and his mother didn't want him to play with them anymore. He went to regular school for one year. Then the children start laughing and running away from it. But a girl, Jenny Curran, doesn't run, and sometimes she comes home with her. She is good. But his mother decided that Forrest be placed in another type of school, he was placed in a disability school. One day, when he was 16 years old, he walked alone and he met a handball coach named Fellars who asked him to play handball with his team. And three days after the incident, the man came to Forrest’s school to move him to another school. There, he met with Jenny Curran in the canteen of the school. Suddenly, bad guys came to him and hit Forrest because of his IQ is 70. And one day, Forrest has his first match. Forrest ran past the goal line two or three times. The bad guys at school treat him really well to me after that. One day, he took Jenny to the cinema. Jenny looked very beautiful. Jenny was the prettiest thing Forrest had seen. When they watched the movie in the cinema, Forrest wanted to lift Jenny from the seat, but he broke her dress. Forrest pulled out his shirt, and opened it, and she screamed. Then two men came and took Forrest to the office. A few minutes later, four policemen arrived, and took Forrest to the police station. Forrest's mother came to the police station. He cried, and Forrest knew that he was in trouble, but he was lucky. Next day, the letter came from the university. That's good news. If Forrest plays on their handball team, there is a place for Forrest to study there. The next day, he went to the university.

CHAPTER 2

When Forrest arrived at the university, he occupied a room with a man named Curtis. Curtis was always angry, and Forrest couldn't understand him. In the field of training, things don't go well. Forrest got the ball, but he went wrong with him, and everyone got angry and started shouting at Forrest. Coach Bryant ordered Forrest to catch the ball. And then Forrest said that Forrest had never been taught to catch balls in high school. One day, Curtis's car tire was broken and Forrest wanted to help him. When Forrest wanted to help him, Forrest was ridiculed by Curtis and said that an idiot would not be able to help anyone. Then Forrest said that maybe he was an idiot, but Forrest wasn't stupid. After that, Curtis was angry with Forrest and chased him to invite a fight. After that, Forrest decided not to move rooms not with Curtis again. The first soccer match will be held on Saturday, and it turns out that the Forrest team won. Forrest called his mother and his mother was very proud of him. One night, people at the university went to a party. However, no one invited Forrest to go to the party. Then Forrest decided to stay in the room and he heard someone playing music. Forrest found a young man sitting in his room playing a harmonica. His name is Bubba. He broke his leg in soccer practice and could not play in matches. Forrest tried to play harmonica and Bubba said that Forrest played very well. Then, Forrest borrowed Bubba's harmonica and returned it the next morning. But when Forrest wanted to give the harmonica back to Bubba, Bubba said that the harmonica was Forrest’s mine. Bubba gave the harmonica to Forrest. In the afternoon, Forrest heard a voice calling from outside the room. It turns out it's Jenny. Jenny said that she saw her handball match, and she was not angry about the incident at the cinema. And Jenny asks Forrest to come to the music show at the Student Center tomorrow night. Forrest agreed.

CHAPTER 3

The next day, Forrest went to the Student Center to see Jenny playing music with her group. Jenny is very beautiful using a long dress and Forrest is very happy while being close his eyes. Unconsciously, he listens to music while playing the harmonica that given from Bubba. Instantly, the people in those place said that Forrset was great and Jenny offered Forrest to join to her music team every Friday and he will get 25 dollars in every performance. The only important thing that happened to Forrest at the University is the Big Game at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Forrest is an important game and coach Bryant wants his team to win. Coach Bryant support Forrest, and Forrest runningvery fast like wild animal and finally he could make a point. His friend, Weasels make things worse. He make mistake, and the game is over, the team was lose. Because the team didn’t win the game, Forrest can not stay at the University. He wasn’t smart enough in lesson with IQ of 70. And finally Forrest go home to meet his mother.

To be continued ^^