Forrest is then assigned to the reputed worst job in the Army: cleaning mud off tank treads in West Germany.įorrest also meets an attractive blonde woman named Gretchen, who works in a beer hall. In the environmental hoopla that ensues, the Army spirits Forrest out of the States and decides to quiet his involvement, as court-martialing a Medal of Honor recipient would look bad. He is taken from New York to a remote post in Alaska, while his son stays behind.įorrest considers Alaska a nice change of pace from the superficiality of Manhattan, but ends up accidentally wrecking the Exxon Valdez after a drunken night with an old friend. He's later met by two MPs, who tell him that due to an error in being medically released while in Vietnam, his enlistment has yet to expire and he is back on active duty.
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Sure enough, he is set up to be the fall guy for their schemes, but his trial is disrupted by news of a crash. Forrest is visited by Jenny's ghost, who is worried about Forrest. Some time later, Forrest and the other prisoners are eligible for a work release program, to which they are put to work under a "religious rehabilitation" at Holy Land, along with John Hinckley Jr., where he accidentally exposes Jim Bakker's affair with his secretary.įorrest then works with Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken on Wall Street, where he and his son meet Tom Hanks, who does not impress them.
The mission is discovered, and everyone disavows responsibility save for Forrest, who is jailed. On the mission itself, they meet Ayatollah Khomeini. Forrest soon meets with a Marine colonel who recruits Forrest into a clandestine mission to Iran. Forrest, not wishing to see Dan homeless, says they will work something out. On top of that, Dan has become half-blind. Dan, who had fallen in with those who took advantage of him and absconded with his retirement money, leaving him bankrupt. Once at Union Station in Washington, Forrest sees a homeless, handicapped man, who says he is Lt. Jenny's mother is in poor health and Forrest resolves to earn money to support his son, Forrest, Jr, who only recently became aware that Forrest is his actual father.Īgain unemployed, Forrest sells encyclopedias door-to-door, helps create the infamous New Coke, and operates a pig farm, all of which end in disaster. Forrest is kicked off the team when he's informed that Jenny has died and leaves town for her funeral. To make ends meet he gets a job as a janitor in a strip club, where he meets a former college football teammate who gets in a tryout for the New Orleans Saints. Dan sells off his share of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company and the company eventually goes under. In 1980, the shrimp market has exploded, and Forrest cannot keep up with the demand. The story suggests that the real-life events surrounding the film have affected Forrest's life. However, the character is not an idiot savant, as in the first book, but more similar to Tom Hanks' "warmhearted dope." The text intentionally contains grammar and spelling mistakes in order to indicate the character's deficient education and cognitive difficulties, albeit less frequently than its predecessor, reflecting that Forrest is a more mature and somewhat more astute man.
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On the first page, Forrest Gump tells readers "Don't ever let nobody make a movie of your life's story," and "Whether they get it right or wrong, it don't matter." It was written to chronicle Forrest's life throughout the 1980s. It is the sequel to his 1986 novel Forrest Gump and the Academy Award-winning 1994 film of the same name starring Tom Hanks. (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom.
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