During this time, the college gets desegregated and a number of black students are admitted, a historic event at which Forrest is present.įorrest ends up meeting President Kennedy after getting recruited onto the All-American football team. In high school, while running from some bullies, Forrest gets noticed by a football scout and accepted into college on a sports scholarship. In the process, his leg braces miraculously fall off his legs.Īs time passes, Forrest and Jenny remain good friends. One day, when a group of children start bullying Forrest, Jenny tells him to run and he runs away, outrunning the bullies. Jenny is beautiful and a good friend to Forrest, but she struggles at home with a sexually abusive father. The two become fast friends and they spend all their time together. In flashback, Forrest meets Jenny Curran on the first day of school on the bus. To get him accepted into a public school, Forrest’s mother agreed to sleep with the principal in exchange for Forrest's admission. Additionally, Forrest has a below-average IQ. He grew up in a boarding house in Alabama with his mother, who taught him to always believe in himself, in spite of his physical limitations. As a young boy, Forrest wore leg braces because he had a curved spine and was unable to walk properly. In 1981, Forrest Gump is sitting on a bench at a bus stop, and he has decided to tell his life story to a nurse who is sitting on the bench next to him.
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