Then he joins the army where he meets Bubba. Later he plays in the All American Football Team and meets President Kennedy. In his 5 years of being at university he just has to play football and does not understand why it is a problem that black people are allowed to study there. So he gets a scholarship for the University of Alabama. He runs very fast and so one day he is discovered as a great football player. The other boys dislike Forrest and they hunt him.
Jenny is a girl who is raped by her father and so she tries to be together with Forrest as long as possible. He is an outsider and his only friend is Jenny Curran. Because he must have an IQ of 80 to go to public school his mother sleeps with the headmaster of the school. The boy is an idiot because his IQ is only around 70. His father was killed by a large amount of bananas falling down on him.įorrest got his name from General Nathan Bedford Forrest who fought in the American Civil War and founded the Ku Klux Klan. He is survived by his wife, Susan.The book is about the life of an American "idiot" called Forrest Gump.įorrest lives in Greenbow, Alabama with his mother. He became a member of the Alabama Writers’ Hall of Fame 2018 class. When Groom received the prestigious Harper Lee Award in 2011. After moving to New York City, he completed his first novel, Better Times Than These, set in the Vietnam War and published in 1978. Groom later worked as a reporter for the Washington Star, but gave that up to devote himself to fiction. He graduated from the University of Alabama in with an English degree in 1965, and embarked on a tour of duty in Vietnam. Groom wrote Forrest Gump in six weeks.īorn March 23, 1944, in Washington, D.C., and raised in Mobile County, Alabama, Groom turned to writing in college.
Groom said the novel was inspired by a story his father related about a neighbor’s child who displayed savant behavior. And that’s, I think, where I hooked ‘em.”
“If I could convince, persuasively, a reader that Coach Paul Bryant would take an idiot and put him on the football team, they’d believe anything.Once you hook your reader, they’ll go for the rest. In a 2014 interview with the Tuscaloosa News, Groom said the novel was “a farce, and that’s hard to do.
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