Gump reads a book to Forrest, he asks her what 'vacation' means, referring to his father, and she tells him, 'Vacation is when you go somewhere, and you don't ever come back.' The principal comes out and says to Forrest, 'Your mama sure does care about your schooling, son.' He tries to get Forrest to talk to him, but Forrest just begins making panting and gasping noises.Īs Mrs. That night, we see Forrest sitting outside the house, while his mother evidently has sex with the principal to gain him admission to the public school. Gump if she is married, and she tells him that her husband is on vacation. Gump does not accept this, and insists that Forrest be allowed to attend public school. He insists that the minimum IQ to attend public school is 80 and tells her that Forrest has to go to a special school.

Gump that Forrest is 'different,' that his IQ is 75. Suddenly, the scene shifts to a school principal telling Mrs. Gump tells Forrest, 'You're the same as everybody else. Gump let out the rooms to people passing through, in order to earn money. It's a big house, and Forrest tells us that Mrs. He narrates that he grew up a half a mile from Greenbow, Alabama in a house that they inherited from his mother's family. Gump says, 'If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.' In voiceover, Forrest tells us, 'Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.' 'Don't let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest,' Mrs. We see young Forrest getting his brace stuck in a grate in the curb. His mother walks him out of the doctor's office, and we hear Forrest tell us in voiceover that his mother named him after the Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was the creator of the Ku Klux Klan. He wears leg braces that are meant to help correct a curved spine, and he wanders around the doctor's office awkwardly. We see a young Forrest looking down at his legs in a doctor's office. 'I've worn lots of shoes,' he says, before launching into a story about his first pair of shoes. He comments on her shoes and how comfortable they must be, and tells her that his mama always said that one could tell a lot about a person by their shoes. You never know what you're gonna get,' he says, as she reads a magazine. 'My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. He introduces himself as Forrest Gump, and offers her a chocolate, but she ignores him.

On his lap is a box of chocolates, and as the bus arrives, a woman comes and sits beside him.

He picks up the feather and puts it into a book in his suitcase. Sitting at the bus stop is the titular character, Forrest Gump, a dim-witted but kind man wearing dirty sneakers. We see a white feather floating through the air down towards a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia.

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